research potential of warsaw in international scientific networks
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Research potential of Warsawin international scientific networksAgnieszka Olechnicka, Adam Płoszaj
UNICA General Assembly 2016University of Warsaw
18 November 2016
Outlook
1. Dynamics of the geography of science
2. Collaborative turn
3. Warsaw position in networks of scientific collaboration
4. The role of international collaboration
5. Enabling factors
The share of articles affiliated to the given country; SCOPUS
1999-2003 2004-2008
Royal Society (2012), Knowledge, networks and nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century, s. 17.
Number of articles; Web of Science
Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science.
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PragueWarsawBudapestLubljanaBucharestBratislavaSofia
Number of articles; Web of Science
Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science.
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Warsaw
Citations per article2007‐2013, normalized by yearly average
119,0 - 156,9
103,8 - 118,9
91,2 - 103,7
77,5 - 91,1
61,6 - 77,4
42,2 - 61,5
21,4 - 42,1
Source: own elaborationbased on Web of Science.
Knowledge sources and knowledge sinks;world (2000‐2009)
Mazloumian, A., Helbing, D., Lozano, S., Light, R. P., & Börner, K. (2013). Global multi-level analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web'. Scientific reports, 3; http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01167
Knowledge sources and knowledge sinks;Europe (2000‐2009)
Mazloumian, A., Helbing, D., Lozano, S., Light, R. P., & Börner, K. (2013). Global multi-level analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web'. Scientific reports, 3; http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01167
Average number of authors per article(WoS, 36 European countries)
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Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science, articles from 36 European countries.
Average number of Nobel prizewinners in 1901‐2015 (20 years intervals)
Source: on elaboration based on http://www.nobelprize.org/.
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1901-1920 1921-1940 1941-1960 1961-1980 1981-2000 2001-2015
Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2016). Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Physical review letters, 116(6), 061102.
„Only a free individual canmake a discovery. Can you imagine an organization of scientists making the discoveries of Charles Darwin?”
A. Einstein
Will YOU be Nobel prizewinner?
The Fourth Age of Research (Adams 2013)International collaboration; 2007‐2013, per cent
Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science.
The Fourth Age of Research (Adams 2013)Collaboration with the USA; 2007‐2013, per cent
Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science.
Positive influence of collaboration
Collaboration
measured by:
- co-authorship (international)- number of authors,
- number of affiliations/institutions
- acknowledgements
- shared citations
Productivity
number of documents (Ponomariov and Boardman 2010)
number of documents and the number of citations (VanRaan1998; Glanzel 2001)
Visibilitynumber of citations
(Sooryamoorthy 2009)
Qualitypeer quality of the
contribution Franceschet and Costantini (2010)
Source: own elaboration
RegressionsDependent variable: normalised citations in two periods
2007‐2013 m1 m2 m3 m4 m5 m6 m7 m8
R2: ,413 ,480 ,737 ,583 ,489 ,765 ,610 ,772
Percent of international articles ,308 ,204
Percent of collaborations with the USA ,652 ,553 ,550
Closeness (Freeman) ,442 ,201 ,399 ,330
Betweenness (normalised) ,296 ,16
GDP per capita ,643 ,474 ,324 ,481 ,533 ,299 ,386 ,312
2000‐2006 m1 m2 m3 m4 m5 m6 m7 m8
R2: ,628 ,643 ,666 ,704 ,650 ,719 ,709 ,740
Percent of international articles ,125 ,078
Percent of collaborations with the USA ,209 ,137 ,143
Closeness (Freeman) ,308 ,268 ,292 ,509
Betweenness (normalised) ,163 ‐,29
GDP per capita ,792 ,774 ,719 ,654 ,728 ,624 ,650 ,627
Source: own elaboration based on Web of Science.
Enabling factors – accessibility
• Regions/cities with a major international airport are more likely to develop intensive international scientific collaboration.(Hoekman et al. 2010)
• US: After Southwest Airlines enters a new route (with lower fares), scientific collaboration increases by 50% (chemistry co‐publications, 1991‐2012).(Catalini et al. 2016)
Enabling factors – policy(Hierarchy dilemma‐ different rewards from the collaboration)
Collaboration with stronger partner is a chance for a lesser performing cities/science centers
Collaboration with weaker partners is unattractive for the best performing cities/ scientific centers
Enabling factors – policy(Openness dilemma‐ conflicting aims of different policies)
Both EU scientific policy and national scientific policies aim at strengthening interregional collaboration
Innovation policy is enhancing intraregional collaboration (smart specialization approach)