Collaboration and competition are increasing both within and between research organizations, leading to new questions for research management and science policy. Increasing collaboration is reflected by a growing average number of coauthors in all fields (Hicks and Katz, 1996; Wuchty et al., 2007). Sometimes this is seen as a perverse effect of extremely stretched competition, and not so much a...

This guest editorial makes a case for international collaboration in radiography research.

The Conceptual Design Report (CDR) on “An International Accelerator Facility for Beams of Ions and Antiprotons” formed the basis of the present Letter of Intent (LoI). The scientific motivation for a broad variety of atomic physics experiments with highly-charged heavy ions at the new facility and the first concepts of a practical realization are extensively reported in Section 2 of the CDR ent...

there are evidences of the relationship between collaboration rate and quality of articles. the more the number of authors, the more qualified the article. study of the collaboration rate among researchers is essential for strategic planning and research policy in major. the main objective of this research is to determine the authors' collaboration rate in the articles of scientometrics journal...

the paper presents a model integrating theories from collaboration research (i.e., social presence theory, channel expansion theory, and the task closure model) with a recent theory from technology adoption research (i.e., unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, abbreviated to utaut) to explain the adoption and use of collaboration technology. we theorize that collaboration technolo...