Table 3 Summary of international collaboration patterns for the 13 target countries.

From: Bibliometric analysis of Asian ‘language and linguistics’ research: A case of 13 countries

 

No. of internationally co-authored articles

Betweenness centrality

The most frequently collaborating countries

(the numbers in the parentheses correspond to the number of articles co-authored with each country)

China

22017

672.3

United States (699), Hong Kong (474), United Kingdom (326), Australia (233), Canada (86)

Hong Kong

793

122.3

China (474), United States (237), United Kingdom (148), Australia (106), Canada (35)

India

178

363.8

United States (65), United Kingdom (30), Germany (18), Australia (15), Canada (11), The Netherlands (11)

Indonesia

183

174.7

Malaysia (59), Australia (52), United States (26), United Kingdom (23), Japan (12)

Iran

333

226.5

United States (67), Malaysia (63), Canada (43), Australia (42), United Kingdom (26)

Israel

454

200.8

United States (216), United Kingdom (64), Germany (57), Canada (43), France (34)

Japan

818

569.1

United States (319), United Kingdom (152), Australia (108), Canada (91), China (62)

Malaysia

378

254.5

Iran (63), Australia (60), Indonesia (59), Pakistan (39), Bangladesh (32)

Saudi Arabia

250

413.0

United Kingdom (52), Pakistan (48), United States (34), Malaysia (30), Australia (29)

Singapore

310

44.2

United States (124), China (63), Australia (56), United Kingdom (44), Hong Kong (34)

South Korea

519

241.2

United States (374), United Kingdom (52), China (35), Japan (30), Canada (24)

Taiwan

417

25.8

United States (240), China (84), Australia (38), Canada (37), United Kingdom (34)

Turkey

387

267.3

United States (137), United Kingdom (98), Germany (39), Netherlands (37), Canada (24)

  1. When an article was coauthored by several authors from multiple countries, it was counted multiple times.