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of all Indonesian publications in 1998 were produced within the research area analysed.
Indonesia’s most important cooperation partners are Japan, Australia and Thailand. Its most
important international partner is the USA. Germany features as its forth most important
international partner. With 402 publications, Indonesia has the second lowest scientific output
within the research area studied; Vietnam has the lowest. With 78,514 published journal articles,
Japan, in contrast, was well ahead of all other countries in South Asia in 1998. However, only
3 % of its total output was published in cooperation with one of the other countries. The most
important partners for Japanese scientists came from the USA, Germany and the United
Kingdom. In forth place, China features as the first South-East Asian cooperation partner. In
seventh and eight place are South Korea and Australia. As can be seen from the share of the
total output of South-East Asian countries in Table 8, Japan was responsible for more than half
of the publications in the region with its high publication output in 1998. Australia and China
follow with 17 % and 13 %, respectively. Ten years later, this relationship changed: thanks to its
almost exponential increase in publications, China became the most important country studied
with 34 %. Japan, New Zealand and Australia lost some of their influence to all of the other
countries analysed. Despite this, cooperation between these countries and the other countries
excluding China increased disproportionately in relation to the total publication output. The drop
of 4.55 % in China’s share of publications by South-East Asia in the countries’ total output
compared to 1998 can be explained by a huge increase in the number of publications. Between
1998 and 2007, the number of Chinese publications increased by around 370 %. Copublications
with the other South-East Asian countries increased from 1,737 to 7,835,
representing an increase of 350 %. China therefore cooperated less in relation to its total output
in 2007 than it did with the research area in 1998. This statement must be considered in relation
to China’s total output and its exponential increase.
Increase between 1998 and 2007
Development of the share of total
output of the South-East Asian
countries
Development of the share of
publications with one of the other
countries studied in relation to the total
output of a country
Australia -20.64% 98.12%
China 148.52% -4.55%
Indonesia 7.14% 37.28%
Japan -39.91% 133.06%
Malaysia 48.74% 53.83%
New Zealand -25.31% 71.57%
Singapore 36.51% 98.84%
South Korea 49.02% 27.48%
Taiwan 16.14% 67.09%
Thailand 89.80% 23.23%
Vietnam 77.72% 56.72%
Table 9: Development of the share of publications by country in relation to the total output of the countries
studied and the share of co-publications with one of the other countries analysed
If we compare Figures 112 and 113, which depict the behaviour of the publication output and
the percentage of South-East Asian co-publications in relation to the total output of a country, it
becomes clear that networking between the countries studied continues to develop in opposition
to the publication output. All countries do not only publish more in absolute terms but they have
also increased their share of cooperations with one of the other countries analysed. Indonesia
remains the country with the highest number of co-publications in South-East Asia publishing
almost half of its articles together with at least one of the other countries studied. As the
countries with a low publication output generate a high share of their articles in cooperations
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