Leadership and international collaboration on COVID-19 research: reducing the North-South divide?

Autor: Carvalho DS; Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Av. Brasil 4036, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-361 Brazil., Felipe LL; Post Graduation Program in Informatics (PPGI), Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Cidade Universitária, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 274, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-916 Brazil., Albuquerque PC; Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Av. Brasil 4036, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-361 Brazil., Zicker F; Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Av. Brasil 4036, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-361 Brazil., Fonseca BP; Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Av. Brasil 4036, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-361 Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientometrics [Scientometrics] 2023 Jun 05, pp. 1-17. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 05.
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04754-x
Abstrakt: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented scientific efforts worldwide and launched several initiatives to promote international cooperation. Because international scientific collaborations between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are not always balanced, analyzing research leadership helps to understand the global dynamics of knowledge production during COVID-19. In this study, we focused on HIC-LMIC collaborations on COVID-19 research in 469,937 scientific publications during the first 2 years of the pandemic (2020-2021). Co-authorship and authors' affiliation were used to identify international collaborations, according to country income level. The leadership analysis considered the countries of the first and last authors of publications. The results show that (i) most publications with international collaborations (49.3%) involved researchers from HICs and LMICs; (ii) collaborative research between HICs and LMICs addressed relevant public health needs; (iii) HIC-LMIC collaborations were primarily led by researchers from the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and India; (iv) most HIC-LMIC publications (44%) had shared leadership, with research interests linked to national expertise and global interests. This study contributes to the analysis of research collaborations on COVID-19 and sheds light on North-South relations in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.
Competing Interests: Competing interestsThe authors have no competing interests to declare.
(© The Author(s) 2023.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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