Valuing Collaboration and Collaborators

Global and Local Collaborators: A Study of Scientific Collaboration

AbstttictIncreased co-authorship in schistosomiasis has been shown to be associated with research funding. The small core of grantees is highly prolific. Furthermore, strong evidence points to the existence of two types of co-authors, namely, the globals who appear to co-author with individuals outside their own group, and the locals who are limited in their formal collaboration. The globals co...

Understanding Scientific Collaboration from the Perspective of Collaborators and Their Network Structures

Scientific collaboration is one of the key factors to trigger innovations. Coauthorship networks have been taken as representations of scholars’ collaboration for a long time. This study investigates how the authors’ attributes and the coauthorship network structures simultaneously influence the scientific collaboration among them. Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are adopted in this res...

Caretakers and collaborators.

The Effects of Types of Decision-Making and Collaborative Information Processing on Collaboration Performance, and Social Support and Collaboration Load among Collaborators in CSCL

This study investigate the process of thinking required by individual learners in collaborative learning and the process of collaborative learning from the perspective of information processing and suggest a specific process of collaborative information processing with information externalization to make effective collaboration performance. In particular, the body of research mainly focused on ...

Recruit the Best Collaborators

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