Re: Health researchers cooperation --- This is a highly valuable statement, and it ties in with what Vid Nukala previously posted on neo-colonialism. There is greater concern nowadays in science policy and research funding about how to prevent neo-colonial dependency structures within cross-border scientific collaborations, especially when researchers and institutions from developed states collaborate with researchers from less developed states. The good news is that there is only little up to no evidence that e.g. international co-publications disfavour scientific authors from less developed countries (I think you all know that authorship orders greatly matter for scientific reputation). Moreover, publication output and impact (in terms of citations) from less developed countries have risen during the last years. But in general, there is only little empirical knowledge to back or refute statements about neo-colonialism in international science collaborations.

Source author: Tim Flink tim.flink@hu-berlin.de