Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research Drivers of Excellence /

• Main Authors: Leite, Denise (Author), Pinho, Isabel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology > Research.; Economic development.; Higher Education.; Research Methodology.; Sociology of Education.; Development Studies.

This book identifies key factors that drive the development and improvement of higher education research in emerging and advanced economies. In an increasingly interconnected world, knowledge production supported by strong research is a channel for the development of nations. The authors of this boo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Theoretical approaches to research collaboration networks: a new science
• Chapter 2. What is collaboration and research collaboration
• Chapter 3. What do we measure, by evaluating research collaboration networks or the researcher productivity
• Chapter 4. Research collaboration networks: what do researchers say and what do networks show?
• Chapter 5. Limits and frontiers to international collaboration in emerging countries.