The decline might be another sign of politics affecting cross-country scientific collaborations.
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The number of scholars who declare affiliations in both China and the United States on research papers has dropped by more than 20% over the past three years, an analysis conducted forhas found. That slump seems to be part of a pattern of waning US–China collaboration that is starting to show up in research databases. The number of papers that were collaborations between authors in the United States and China — the world’s two largest research producers — also fell for the first time last year.
These signs of falling collaboration are at least in part a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars say, but also of political tensions. These include the effects of the United States’ controversial ‘China Initiative’, a policy supposed to prevent espionage that targeted many US academics for not disclosing some of their work or funding in China.
The US government seems to be dropping its decades-long support for scientific collaboration with China just as some of China’s research is at a world-class level, says Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. “If the United States stops collaborating with China we’re cutting off our access to a huge part of what’s going on in the scientific world,” she says.by Jeroen Baas, director of analytics at the Amsterdam-based publisher Elsevier.
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