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Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future

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Personal observations and reflections on scientific collaboration and its study, past, present, and future, containing new material on motives for collaboration, and on some of its salient features. Continuing methodological problems are singled out, together with suggestions for future research.

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Beaver, D.D. Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future. Scientometrics 52, 365–377 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014254214337

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