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          Although research collaboration has been studied extensively, we still lack understanding regarding the factors stimulating researchers to collaborate with different kinds of research partners including members of the same research center or group, researchers from the same organization, researchers from other academic and non-academic organizations as well as international partners. Here, we provide an explanation of the emergence of diverse collaborative ties. The theoretical framework used for understanding research collaboration couples scientific and technical human capital embodied in the individual with the social organization and cognitive characteristics of the research field. We analyze survey data collected from Slovenian scientists in four scientific disciplines: mathematics; physics; biotechnology; and sociology. The results show that while individual characteristics and resources are among the strongest predictors of collaboration, very different mechanisms underlie collaboration with different kinds of partners. International collaboration is particularly important for the researchers in small national science systems. Collaboration with colleagues from various domestic organizations presents a vehicle for resource mobilization. Within organizations collaboration reflects the elaborated division of labor in the laboratories and high level of competition between different research groups. These results hold practical implications for policymakers interested in promoting quality research.

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                Contributors
                hajdeja.iglic@fdv.uni-lj.si
                Journal
                Scientometrics
                Scientometrics
                Scientometrics
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                0138-9130
                13 April 2017
                13 April 2017
                2017
                : 112
                : 1
                : 153-174
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0001 0721 6013, GRID grid.8954.0, , University of Ljubljana, ; Ljubljana, Slovenia
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9000, GRID grid.21925.3d, , University of Pittsburgh, ; Pittsburgh, USA
                Article
                2386
                10.1007/s11192-017-2386-y
                5486904
                28725095
                15580de9-9e8a-4cdd-ae17-ae86475578a1
                © The Author(s) 2017

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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                : 26 October 2016
                Funding
                Funded by: Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS (SI)
                Award ID: J5-2101
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                © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2017

                Computer science
                scientific collaboration,collaboration levels,international collaboration,collaboration with industry,biotechnology,mathematics,physics,sociology

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