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Rankings Metric: International Collaboration considered in THE Rankings
Last updated on November 15, 2024
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Back to all metricsInternational Collaboration is a subset of Scholarly Output considered in the THE Rankings. Publications are considered 'international output' when they have 'more than 1 author, more than 1 institution and more than 1 country code'.
THE’s International Co-authorship Score (THE) - contributing 1/3 of the International Outlook Score and 2.5% of the Overall Ranking Score - is calculated as the proportion of a university's total publications that have at least one international co-author and is also subject normalized to account for differing subject profiles for universities.
- Explore the extent of international and other types of collaboration within a data set
- Benchmark the collaboration of entities of similar sizes, and in similar disciplines:
- Showcase extensive international collaboration that may underpin a set of scholarly output
- Investigate collaborative activity very early in a new strategy, since the affiliation data underlying this metric do not require time to accumulate to reliable levels in the same way as citation data do
- Look at publishing activity in a way that is difficult to manipulate
- Benchmarking the collaboration of entities in different disciplines:
- The typical collaborative behavior of academics may differ between disciplines, such as mathematics and medicine, or humanities and molecular biology.
- It is not advisable to use this metric to compare entities in distinct disciplines without accounting for these differences.
- When comparing entities made up of a mixture of disciplines, such as an Institution, or a Group of Institutions such as a US state, it is advised to apply the Research Area filter to focus on one field that is common between all the entities. It is also advised to use field weighting to help offset this affect.
- Understanding activity in a discipline with an obvious national focus, such as Finnish literature or cultural studies, when institutional and national collaboration may be of more use than international collaboration.
- Number of Citing Countriesopens in new tab/window, which indicates the diversity of countries in which Researchers have built on an entity’s publications. It is likely to be higher if an entity’s international collaboration activity involves several countries, rather than just 1 or 2, even though both situations can give 100% international collaboration.
- Collaboration Impactopens in new tab/window, which calculates the average Citations per Publication for publications with different types of geographical collaboration, and indicates how beneficial these collaborations are with respect to citation impact
- The set of all other “Power Metrics” whose value tends to increase as the entity becomes bigger: Scholarly Output, Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, Citation Count, Cited Publications (“Total value”), Number of Citing Countries, Academic-Corporate Collaboration (“Total value”), Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles (“Total value”), Publications in Top Journal Percentiles (“Total value”), and h-indices
- The set of all other “time-independent metrics”, which provide useful, reliable information immediately upon publication and do not rely on the passing of time for useful data to accumulate: Scholarly Output, Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, AcademicCorporate Collaboration, and Publications in Top Journal Percentiles
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