Inter-university collaboration in Canada

This study examines the extent of inter-institutional collaboration between scholars in the 48 major Canadian universities, and also determines the factors that influence such collaboration. Documents included in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index of the online ISI's Web of Science database for 1991-2004 were used as sources of data for the study. Making use of the author's affiliation field, we were able to determine the number of publications co-authored by scholars ill each pair of universities. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the influence of factors such as geographical distance, province, language, time zone, age, and peer group on collaboration. Only province and peer group were included in the final regression model.