caa a22 4500 445349395 CHVBK 20180317142839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0295-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0295-4 Reasons for and developments in international scientific collaboration: does an Asia-Pacific research area exist from a bibliometric point of view? [Elektronische Daten] [Stefanie Haustein, Dirk Tunger, Gerold Heinrichs, Gesa Baelz] This paper describes the different forms of and tries to give reasons for international scientific collaboration in general. It focuses on eleven countries in the Asia-Pacific region by evaluating their national research output with the help of bibliometric indicators in particular. Over two million journal articles published by these countries between 1998 and 2007 in ISI-listed periodicals are analyzed. Discipline-specific publication and citation profiles reveal national strengths and weaknesses in the different research domains. The exponential increase in publication output by China over the last few years is astonishing, but in terms of visibility, i.e. citation rates, China cannot keep up with leading science nations, remaining below the world average. A discipline-specific analysis shows that Chinese authors took an active part in more than a quarter of all articles and reviews published in the field of materials science in 2007, while their contribution to medical research is very low. Co-publication networks among the eleven countries are generated to observe the development of cooperation bonds in the region. Applying Salton's measure of international collaboration strength, an above-average strengthening of scientific collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region can be observed. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Scientific cooperation nationallicence Country level study nationallicence Discipline specific publication profiles nationallicence Asia-Pacific Research Area nationallicence Haustein Stefanie Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut Tunger Dirk Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut Heinrichs Gerold International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1, 53227, Bonn, Germany aut Baelz Gesa International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1, 53227, Bonn, Germany aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/3(2011-03-01), 727-746 0138-9130 86:3<727 2011 86 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0295-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0295-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haustein Stefanie Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tunger Dirk Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library, 52425, Jülich, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heinrichs Gerold International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1, 53227, Bonn, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baelz Gesa International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1, 53227, Bonn, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/3(2011-03-01), 727-746 0138-9130 86:3<727 2011 86 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer