Transnational
co-authorships are likely to arise in collaboration (project-based or other)
around common themes. This figure offers a tentative specification of the
transnational themes identified in the three sets of publications (for
a description of these publications see figure 17):
-
comparisons
are concerned with contrasting characteristics found in systems or processes;
-
European
issues are identified across various phenomena or around common concerns;
-
general
themes are developed by focusing on common concerns or selected issues;
-
overviews
compile and structure various items (also referring to proceedings of papers
and volumes of contributions).
The main
outcome of this figure is that the given range of co-authorship themes
is shared by all sets of publications. Only the overviews are missing in
JVET, thereby making the journal's other three themes appear somewhat larger
in proportion. What is worth noting, referring to all sets of publications,
is the relation between comparisons on the one hand and European issues
or general themes on the other: comparisons, as a more traditional approach,
are less represented than the other two, which may be considered as more
highly integrated approaches. This balance is particularly striking among
the CEDRA co-authorships. |
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