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Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships.
Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online.
Combining the minds of humans and machines to avoid confirmation bias.
An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.
How many scientists does it take to change the world?
A clear correlation between a nation's scientific influence and the links it fosters with foreign researchers exists.
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.
Save time and protect critical code with 'continuous integration' services.
Free online tools for networking, data sharing and measuring research impact.
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
Funder reflections on the Open Science Prize.
Bilateral partnership may provide new blueprint for EU east-west collaboration.
A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.
Glen Wright on the lighter side of scholarly collaboration
The unconference about tools and rules in collaborative research.
The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain and perilous.
Brain drain to Western nations has apparently left researchers in Eastern Europe with fewer foreign co-authors.
An analysis of more than 50 collaborations shows the secrets of success, write Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and colleagues from the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative.
New report looks at real-time global research collaboration for the first time, uncovering a new picture of collaborative research.
Report highlighting the need for a reference database of research organisations.
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.
Diverse approaches suit different goals.
How open licenses can simplify international research when multiple research projects are involved and when projects have ended.
In an era where research bureaucracy is the biggest burden bestowed upon scientists, some are seeking practical solutions.
A spirit of collective enterprise in scientific research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what.
Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org we construct large coauthorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all positions.
Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture of corporate influence in Washington.
