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Multilateral co-authorship: an important but easily overlooked pattern in international scientific collaboration research

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  • Weishu Liu

    (Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics)

  • Ruifeng Zhang

    (Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics)

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A recent study published in Scientometrics used publications in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection to exam the decades-long scientific collaboration between Cuba and China (Ronda-Pupo, Scientometrics 129:785–802, 2024). Ronda-Pupo’s finding of the significant growth of research collaboration between these two countries evidenced by the number of co-authored papers is different from our daily perception of the scientific collaboration between China and Cuba. By using the same data, we find the dominating role of multilateral co-authorship rather than bilateral or trilateral co-authorship in Cuba-China scientific collaboration. This important finding gives an alternative explanation of the increasing Cuba-China co-authored publications. Through the supplement of our exploration, readers can have a better understanding of the Cuba-China scientific collaboration.

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  • Weishu Liu & Ruifeng Zhang, 2024. "Multilateral co-authorship: an important but easily overlooked pattern in international scientific collaboration research," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 129(7), pages 4661-4668, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:129:y:2024:i:7:d:10.1007_s11192-024-05095-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05095-z
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