Does "birds of a feather flock together" matter-Evidence from a longitudinal study on US-China scientific collaboration

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 330-344

  Tang, Li ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

International collaboration; Panel regression; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY;

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; PANEL REGRESSION; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84873683765     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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