RT journal article
T1 Is there convergence in international research collaboration? An exploration at the country level in the basic and applied science fields
A1 Barrios, Candelaria
A1 Flores Varo, María Ester
A1 Martínez Navarro, María Ángeles
A1 Ruiz Martínez, Marta
A2 Economía General
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 International research collaboration
K1 Scientific convergence clubs
K1 Log t test
K1 Research fields
AB This paper examines the patterns of convergence in international scientific collaboration across a set of developed and developing countries from 1997 through 2012. The empiri- cal analysis was carried out in a novel way applying the methodology developed by Phil- lips and Sul (Econometrica 75:1771–1855, 2007; J Appl Econom 24:1153–1185, 2009) to international co-publication data from a US National Science Foundation dataset (NSF in National Center for Science and Engineering statistics, http://www.nsf.gov/, 2014). First, the convergence analysis across countries is carried out for all research fields combined and, secondly, for the basic and applied science fields separately. The results suggest that there has not been an overall convergence in international scientific collaboration patterns during the analyzed period. In contrast, there is evidence of four scientific convergence clubs and three divergent countries in the aggregate of all research fields. However, our results seem to indicate that there is a tendency toward a gradual convergence among the more scientifically developed countries. The results also show the existence of interna- tional research collaboration convergence clubs for the fields of basic science research and applied science with five and four convergence clubs, respectively.
SN 1588-2861
YR 2019
FD 2019-06-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31329
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31329
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026