Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of China’s international collaboration from 1980 to 2016, in terms of collaborating countries, topics, and citations. We also distinguish between papers that are led by a Chinese author (i.e., the first or corresponding author has a Chinese affiliation) and the papers to China contributed (i.e., the first and corresponding authors are not affiliated to a Chinese institution). We find an important increase of international collaboration by Chinese scholars over the period. Chinese authors are also increasingly playing a leadership role in those international collaborations, but this varies by discipline and by country of collaboration. We observe that the papers led by Chinese authors have on average a lower citation impact than the papers to which they participated as non-leaders.
Authors: Quan Wang, Philippe Mongeon, Vincent Larivière
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2899556541