Collaboration seen as way for researchers to raise their profile
Chinese universities should collaborate more frequently with researchers from around the globe in conducting research and working on academic papers in order to strengthen their position within the global research community, a senior manager of an academic publishing company suggested.
"China is producing a lot of research papers, but these papers are not highly cited enough compared with (papers from) other countries," said M'hamed el Aisati, director of content and analytics research management of Elsevier, an Amsterdam-based company that provides scientific, technological and medical information solutions.
Aisati said that low citations result from inadequate international exposure of the papers in international academic databases such as Scopus, an Elsevier online abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.
