Which
countries are represented in transnational co-authorships? This questions
is related to the national origin of co-authors within a given team (co-authors
coming from the same country, alongside one or more authors from different
countries, are counted only once). The figure above shows the national
composition of co-authorships in both CEDRA publications (14 teams) and
ECER proceedings (12 teams). While the amount and size of co-authorships
are similar in both sets, the transnational composition varies between
the two:
-
CEDRA
co-authorships share a smaller range of countries than ECER co-authorships
do;
-
the combination
of countries in ECER co-authorships is more varied than the one in CEDRA
publications, the latter being particularly marked by including a UK co-author
in each team and, more predictably, a EU (CEDEFOP) co-author in every second
team.
These
differences are partly connected with the contexts in which the co-authorships
develop: while CEDRA publications are determined by major themes and corresponding
expertise required from co-authors, ECER proceedings are open for any papers
which meet general criteria of quality. So these two cases convey alternative
characteristics or values of co-authorships: the professionality gained
by selected transnationality (CEDRA) versus the rich variety achieved by
spontaneous transnationality (ECER). |
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