英国国际合作格局

该报告运用文献计量学方法，对英国及其主要合作伙伴国的国际合作格局做了全面的分析。所选
择的主要国家包括美国、加拿大、法国、德国、日本、澳大利亚、中国与印度；数据覆盖领域有临床、医药
卫生、生物科学、环境科学、数学、物质科学以及工程技术领域；数据时间分为1996－2000年与2001－2005
年两个时间段。结果显示：国际论文数量增长显著；英国国际合作论文份额的增长比G7 国家更加快速； 德
国和美国是英国最大的国际合作伙伴；英国国际合作论文的平均影响力显著高于其科研论文的总体影响力；
中国与英国合作发表的论文数量超过了与其他欧洲各国的合作论文数。

Patterns of International Collaboration for the UK and Leading Partners

Patterns of international collaboration for the UK and leading partners are described by bibliometrical methods.The data analysed in this report are records of research publications,their authors' location and their subsequent citations by later publications.Data cover:nine countries - UK,USA,Canada,France,Germany,Japan,Australia,China and India;seven research fields-clinical sciences,health and related subjects,biological sciences,environmental sciences, mathematics,physical sciences,and engineering;two time periods - 1996-2000 and 2001-2005.Results show that the importance of international collaboration within countries' output has increased;for the UK the share of international collaboration has increased relative to domestic volume more rapidly than for other G7 economies;the UK retains a greater share of USA collaboration than any country except Germany;the average impact of internationally co-authored work is significantly higher than the overall average;the UK has more collaborative papers with China than any other EU partner.