Making sense of global collaboration dynamics: Developing a methodological framework to study (dis)similarities between country disciplinary profiles and choice of collaboration partners

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new methodological framework that uses cosine similarity to analyze how globalization influences international research collaboration patterns and the similarities between countries' disciplinary profiles.

Contribution

It develops a novel approach to quantify and analyze the effects of globalization on international collaboration using cosine similarity measures.

Findings

Cosine similarity reveals increasing similarities in disciplinary profiles across countries.

The framework helps identify the costs and benefits of global research networks.

It provides insights into the evolution of international collaboration dynamics.

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodological framework by which the effects of globalization on international collaboration can be studied and understood. Using the cosine similarity of the disciplinary and partner profiles of countries by collaboration types it is possible to analyse the effects of globalization and the costs and benefits of an increasing global networked research system.