Team science and collaboration have become crucial to addressing key research questions confronting society. Institutions that are spread across multiple geographic locations face additional challenges. To better understand the nature of cross-campus collaboration within a single institution and the effects of institutional efforts to spark collaboration, we conducted a case study of collaborat...

spatial environmental autocorrelation is a known phenomenon in the environmental studies explaining spatial relationship of environmental characteristics of different geographical units. different mechanisms have been proposed to clarify how the environments of especially neighboring countries response to changes of each other. this paper attempts to propose a new mechanism, namely spatial inst...

doing centralized and coherent activities between governmental agencies is essential at any level. creating suitable institutional structure for appropriate solutions of policy problem in natural resources at multiple levels is possible using application of network governance. the aim of this paper is institutional network analysis with co-management of zagros dry forests in regional (county) l...

one dimension approach for management has been resulted in many challenges in order to sustainable policy. network governance and ultra-structure insight implication could remedy some of challenges of sustainable development. the aim of this paper is analysis of institutional network with co-management of sorkheh hesar national park in tehran province. quantitative approaches are used for this ...

BACKGROUND Cross-institutional cross-disciplinary collaboration has become a trend as researchers move toward building more productive and innovative teams for scientific research. Research collaboration is significantly changing the organizational structure and strategies used in the clinical and translational science domain. However, due to the obstacles of diverse administrative structures, ...

This article draws on the experiences of teachers and teacher educators within “Bristol Decolonising Network”, an informal professional learning network based in South West England, to share examples teacher-led decolonising/antiracist initiatives. The seven vignettes presented cover a range subject areas across English Secondary school curriculum, with varying rationales, foci, forms intended ...

Using data from co-authorships at the international level in all fields of science in 1990 and 2000, and within six case studies at the sub-field level in 2000, different explanations for the growth of international collaboration in science and technology are explored. We find that few of the explanations within the literature can be supported by a detailed review of the data. To enable further...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of scientific collaboration and the visibility generated by coauthorship of articles on smoking among different countries on a world-wide basis through the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-expanded) from 1999 to 2003. MATERIAL AND METHODS We selected articles on smoking resulting from collaboration among different countries in the SC...