(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This global average masks wide variations from one region to another. The greatest level of international scientific collaboration is to be found in the Caribbean, where co-authorship leapt from 59% to 82% of articles between 2005 and 2014. By 2014, 86% of scientific articles were the fruit of international scientific collaboration in low-income countries (compared to 82% in 2005) and almost 38% in lower middle-income countries (up from 32%). In high-income countries, one in three (34%) articles had a foreign co-author by 2014, up from 28%. Although the highest rates of international scientific collaboration...
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