I'm starting to see multiple signs that globalization - and the "global community" - is dying. This article by Kevin Xu is well worth reading: https://interconnect.substack.com/p/globalization-is-dead-and-no-one

#globalization #ShrinkingWorld

A new preprint about the past, present and future of international cooperation. Results show how 🌍 collaboration clusters have formed and evolved over the past 50 years for 15 areas (on #OpenAlex data!):

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04429

E.g. it's shown that the #US and #China are shown to have rapidly moved closer together for decades, but have started moving apart after 2019.

And try to provide the answer to the main question yourself - Congregate or disperse?

#ShrinkingWorld #bibliometrics