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A new quantitative method is introduced to analyze the collaboration among different organizations. The method defines the collaboration score based on the number of people involved in collaboration, and then the collaboration strength is obtained by summing up the collaboration scores with this method. We choose “Project 985” universities, which represent the top universities in China, as an example to study the collaboration network, strength in leading collaboration and strength in participating collaboration. Results based on Scopus show some characteristics of such collaboration and verify the feasibility of the new approach.
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The study was supported by the project of “National Natural Science Foundation of China” (70973118). The authors wish to thank anonymous reviewers who gave valuable suggestion that has helped to improve the quality of the manuscript.
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Wang, W., Wu, Y. & Pan, Y. An investigation of collaborations between top Chinese universities: a new quantitative approach. Scientometrics 98, 1535–1545 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1072-y
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