Impact of scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors on international research collaboration

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Highlights:

• The scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors are found to be shaping the closeness of international research collaboration.

• Countries with similarly large scientific and economic sizes tend to collaborate closely with each other.

• IGO comemberships largely facilitate the close collaboration in science.

• Sharing common official languages and religion backgrounds promotes the close collaboration between countries.

摘要

•The scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors are found to be shaping the closeness of international research collaboration.•Countries with similarly large scientific and economic sizes tend to collaborate closely with each other.•IGO comemberships largely facilitate the close collaboration in science.•Sharing common official languages and religion backgrounds promotes the close collaboration between countries.

论文关键词:International collaboration network,Collaboration closeness,Common intergovernmental organization,Common language,Common religion

论文评审过程:Received 26 January 2021, Revised 25 June 2021, Accepted 8 July 2021, Available online 20 July 2021, Version of Record 20 July 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101194