The Nature Index 2015 Collaborations report, published as a supplement to Nature on November 12, provides more evidence of the emergence of a 'Fourth Age' of scientific discovery where high-impact research is conducted through international collaboration and demonstrates the benefits of participation in international networks for emergent research nations.
The Nature Index database tracks the author affiliations of nearly 60,000 high quality scientific articles published per year from over 20,000 research institutions worldwide. The database has been compiled by Springer Nature in collaboration with Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of the science and research communities.
The Collaborations report is the first of a new style of Nature Index supplement that further probes the data to answer questions about the role of collaboration in global science. The report brings data collected from the Index to life through in-depth editorials, interviews with leading academics from around the world and a series of stunning infographics, produced by data visualisation experts Small Multiples and Digital Science.
The supplement also shows the role that international collaborations have played in China's continuing rise in scientific publishing, assesses whether location still plays an important role in industry–academia collaborations and questions whether government policies are the best way to encourage international interdisciplinary collaborations.
The Nature Index 2015 Collaborations supplement is available online at www.nature.com/nature-index-collaborations.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).
