Fig. 4: ‘Shrinking (and-possibly-Polarising) World’.
From: The altering landscape of US–China science collaboration: from convergence to divergence
The data prior to 2021 represents actual values obtained from observational data, while the data from 2022 onwards illustrates results derived from simulations based on Scenario B. The abbreviation ‘RoW’ stands for ‘Rest of the World’s top 50’, comprising the top 50 countries, following the US and China in terms of work production. The decreasing trend in the area of the triangle formed by the US, China and RoW signifies the visualisation of the ‘Shrinking World’.
