Co-evolution of the global research collaboration network and the performance of nations in science and technology (opens in new tab)

Researchers have long suspected that international research collaboration (IRC) and scientific and technological (S\&T) performance are subject to reciprocal causality, yet the endogenous co-evolution of these twin phenomena has yet to be tested by large-scale empirical analysis. This study tests IRC network effects on national research performance and vice versa simultaneously using a longitudinal co-evolution model on three decades of global n...