{"id":2416,"date":"2010-12-09T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2010-12-09T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:26:19","slug":"more-international-collaboration-found-in-nanotech-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"More International Collaboration Found in Nanotech Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Investigators at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami reveal how research in nanotechnology has increasingly become a multi-national enterprise, despite having some 60 countries now funding nanotech initiatives within their borders. Phillip Shapira<\/a> of Georgia Tech and Jue Wang<\/a> of FIU found nearly a quarter of all published nanotech research papers co-authored by multi-national collaborators.<\/p>\n

Shapira and Wang used data mining techniques to study authorship and funding acknowledgments available in the Web of Science<\/a>, a leading international database of scientific publications, between August 2008 and July 2009. Their analysis covered more than 91,000 papers. Their findings appear online in Nature<\/em> magazine<\/a> (paid subscription required).<\/p>\n

The findings show the authors of papers came from 152 countries, but authors from only four countries — U.S., China, Germany, and Japan — account for 61 percent of the total. The U.S. (23%) and China (22%) are the leading producers of nanotechnology research, but papers with multinational authors were just as common, also at 23 percent. Papers with multinational authoring teams were assigned to multiple countries.<\/p>\n

While the U.S. and China authors had published almost equal numbers of nanotechnology papers, Shapira and Wang found the U.S. registered a qualitative edge in those papers. Research by U.S. scientists had more early citations<\/a> than the Chinese papers, and U.S. corporate involvement in commercialization and innovation is well ahead of China. But Shapira notes that China is improving in both areas.<\/p>\n

Despite the tendency to view measures of research productivity as a form of national competition, the findings indicate the U.S. and China have become each other’s most frequent international collaborators. About three percent of U.S. papers reported co-funding from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, while a similar proportion of Chinese papers report co-funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n

“Although these numbers are still low relative to purely nationally-funded papers,” says Shapira, “they signal a significant trend as China has taken over from European countries as America’s leading international collaborator by volume in nanotechnology research.”<\/p>\n

Related: Univ. Nanotech Center Opens Collaborations in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n

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