The president and secretaryof the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Bai Chunli, released the construction results to support the Belt and RoadInitiative in the field of S & T by CAS at a news conference held by the Information Office of the State Council on 9 May. The report Research Collaboration amongthe Belt and Road Areas and Countriesis one of the main results, finished by National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Elsevier B.V, under the guidance of the Bureau of Development Planning and the Bureau of International Collaboration of CAS.
Based on the papers published in the Scopus database of Elsevier and the perspective of quantitative analysis,the report reveals the overview of scientific research output for the Belt and Road areas and countries. In the analysis of the Belt and Road areas and countries, the report focuses on the scales of research output, academic impact, scientific collaboration,disciplinary structure and disciplines in advantage. Moreover, the report analyzes several casesfrom the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Belt and Road countries, and explores the issues related to the study of the Belt and Road from an expert point of view. The report will promote mutual understanding in S&T aspects among the Belt and Road countries, and then finally have a certain referential value to organization of S & T interaction and in-depth researchcollaboration.
The report trys to reveal the S&T developmentand the characteristics of scientific collaboration forthe Belt and Road areas and countries. The quantitative result shows that China is the main force in the Belt and Road research and China's collaboration with Central Asia and Russia has been widely concerned. The scientific research output of the Belt and Road countriesdiffers significantly in capacities and scale, whichdemonstrates an uneven distribution. The overall scientific research input and output efficiency of Asian countries is lower than that of central and Eastern Europe.The scientific research papers from 18 countries in Western Asia have relatively great influence. The degree of international collaboration among the Belt and Road areas and countries varies greatly, and the proportion of sole-country-publications is high. The density of the Belt and Road collaborationof Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Egyptis high and the Belt and Road collaboration plays a dominate role in their international collaboration. China locates in the center of the Belt and Road collaboration network.Every country along the Belt and Road has its outstanding subjects and Inferior subjects, and can establish the scientific research collaboration goals and choose the fields of scientific research collaborationaccording to the strategic requirements of scientific research development.
We are confident that encouraged by the Belt and Road Initiative, the collaboration between the Belt and Road countries will be more in-depth and is aimed at mutual benefit and collaboration innovation.
National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other units of document and information systemof CAS collaborate with scientists, experts of management, policy, Think Tank, and industry specialists to make competitive T Series intelligence products which orient to the forefront ofdecision making, scientific research and production, and covering the innovative value chain. The report Research Collaboration amongthe Belt and Road Areas and Countries is one of the competitive T Series intelligence products made by National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences.