Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

International collaboration in psychology is on the rise

  • Published:
Scientometrics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

There has been a substantial increase in the percentage for publications with co-authors located in departments from different countries in 12 major journals of psychology. The results are evidence for a remarkable internationalization of psychological research, starting in the mid 1970s and increasing in rate at the beginning of the 1990s. This growth occurs against a constant number of articles with authors from the same country; it is not due to a concomitant increase in the number of co-authors per article. Thus, international collaboration in psychology is obviously on the rise.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Adam, J., Gurney, K., & Marshall, S. (2007). Patterns of international collaboration for the UK and leading partners: a report commissioned by the UK office of science and innovation. Leeds, UK: Evidence Lmt.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bates, D. M., & Maechler, M. (2010). lme4: Linear mixed-effect models using S4 classes. R package version 0.999375-34 [Software]. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

    Google Scholar 

  • Katz, J. S., & Martin, B. R. (1997). What is research collaboration. Research Policy, 26, 1–18.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kliegl, R. (2008). Publication statistics show collaboration, not competition. APS Observer, 21, 29–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Science Board. (2000). Science and Engineering Indicators 2000. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Science Board. (2008). Science and Engineering Indicators 2008. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pinheiro, J., & Bates, D. (2000). Mixed-effects models in S and S-Plus. New York: Springer.

    Book  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • R Development Core Team (2010). R: A language and environment for statistical computing (version 2.11.1). Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0.http://www.R-project.org.

  • Sarkar, D. (2008). Lattice: Multivariate data visualization with R. New York: Springer.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, M. (1958). The trend toward multiple authorship in psychology. American Psychologist, 13, 596–599.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We thank Bernhard Angele and Steffen Kleinschmidt for help with assembling the data base and Barbara Krahé. Keith Rayner, and Eike Richter for helpful comments.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Postfach 60 15 53, 14415, Potsdam, Germany

    Reinhold Kliegl

  2. Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Douglas Bates

Authors
  1. Reinhold Kliegl
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Douglas Bates
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Reinhold Kliegl.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kliegl, R., Bates, D. International collaboration in psychology is on the rise. Scientometrics 87, 149–158 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0299-0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0299-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation