Collaboration Network Analysis for The Arctic Science and Research on A Collection of Publications from 2000-2023

Abstract

Arctic science and research is widely accepted as a feasible and practical way to address Arctic issues by means of bilateral/multilateral collaboration, and the academic collaboration network would be developed by co-authored publications from scholars of different nationalities. In this study, the academic collaboration network will be investigated quantitatively by social network analysis technology. For this purpose, a total of 24,597 international co-authored publications on Arctic science and research from 2000 to 2023 would be first collected, based on which six academic collaboration networks are developed with the time step of 4 years. Then, social network analysis is employed to analyze these chronological collaboration networks quantitatively in terms of overall structure, temporal evolution, bilateral relations, and core-periphery structure. The findings reveal that the academic collaboration for Arctic science and research continues to expand and strengthen from the first time slice (2000-2003) to the last time slice (2020-2023). It is interesting to find that a triangular structure with North America, Europe, and East Asia as its vertices in terms of collaboration clustering. In addition, the United States always plays a central role, even though there has been continued bilateral/multilateral collaboration on Arctic science and research in the studied time span.