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International collaboration in geoscience lags behind other scientific disciplines

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Quantitative bibliometric analysis of articles published in Nature Index journals over the past two decades reveals that there is less international collaboration in geoscience than in other natural science disciplines.

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Fig. 1: Illustration of geoscience collaboration networks.
Fig. 2: Statistical assessment of collaboration networks by year.

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Data are available in the Zenodo repository with the DOI identifier 10.5281/zenodo.12776557. Source data are provided with this paper.

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All analyses were done in R (version 4.2.3).

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Acknowledgements

We thank Z. Jin, C. Wang, N. Planavsky, and W. Liu for helpful discussions. This study was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grant number 42472149 to J.W.) and the Peking University Discipline Development Fund (grant number 7100604497 to J.W.), the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Fund (grant number 590124048 to S.Y.) and Yale University.

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  1. National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy, Beijing, China

    Shan Ye

  2. School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China

    Shan Ye

  3. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, MOE, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jiuyuan Wang

  4. Institute of Energy, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Quanyou Liu

  5. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Lidya G. Tarhan

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Ye, S., Wang, J., Liu, Q. et al. International collaboration in geoscience lags behind other scientific disciplines. Nat. Geosci. 17, 1068–1071 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01566-3

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