European academics 'see a bigger boost' from overseas collaboration

By Elizabeth Gibney. US academics are more likely to work with peers outside the US than European researchers are to link up with those outside Europe, a new study says.
But when they do work with colleagues outside the continent, European researchers get a proportionally greater citation boost than US researchers, according to the report by Science Europe and the publisher Elsevier.
Studies have previously shown that collaborative research typically results in higher citations - a measure of the impact of research articles - with “outside region” collaboration having the greatest citation benefit. More...