RAPID International Type I: Understanding the Nature of US-China Research Collaborations on COVID-19

部分1.在SARS-COV-2大流行期间，美国和中国的科学家在与大流行相关的研究论文上的合作比过去五年中的一般论文更频繁，强调了国际合作在应对全球危机方面的价值。目前尚不清楚这种合作是如何发生的。本研究的主要目的是研究美国如何-中国就COVID-19开展了研究合作，特别是科学民族主义和全球竞争力如何塑造了这些合作。该项目将超越对研究合作的标准文献计量学分析，进行混合方法调查研究，以更好地了解合作关系是如何建立或维持的，以及科学家在COVID-19研究中所经历或克服的挑战。研究结果将产生关于如何有效平衡快速产生知识的需求，克服研究过程的中断，并确保研究遵守既定的监管协议的重要见解。其长期影响将是加强对今后如何更有效地支持科学和技术合作的理解，特别是在全球危机时期。该研究通过直接与美国和中国科学家合作研究COVID-19，解决了地缘政治和全球科学之间日益加剧的交叉问题。该研究采用了多学科方法，结合了研究政策研究和证券化研究的框架，以确定科学家在大流行期间经历的一系列挑战，以及如何建立或维持学术关系。数据将基于对中美科学家的调查和采访，这些科学家共同撰写了一篇关于COVID-19的中美科学论文。关键数据分析将包括研究证券化在多大程度上支持或阻碍了COVID-19研究合作，以及其对未来合作的影响。其他分析将根据科学研究是否由联邦政府资助来调查潜在的差异。这些发现将有助于当前对民族国家与国际科学合作之间关系的理解，特别是全球危机和地缘政治可能对科学家参与全球知识网络的能力产生的影响，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Part 1. During the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, scientists from the U.S. and China collaborated more frequently on pandemic-related research papers than they had on papers in general over the previous five years, underscoring the value of international collaboration in addressing global crises. What remains largely unknown is how such collaboration occurred. The primary objective of this study is to examine how U.S.-China research collaboration on COVID-19 occurred and, in particular, how scientific nationalism and global competitiveness shaped these collaborations. The project will move beyond standard bibliometric analysis of research collaborations to conduct mixed method survey research to better understand how collaborative relationships were established or maintained and the challenges experienced or overcome by scientists collaborating on COVID-19 research. The findings will generate crucial insights on how to effectively balance the need to rapidly produce knowledge, overcome disruptions to research processes, and ensure research abides by established regulatory protocols. The long-ranging impact will be to enhance understanding of how science and technology cooperation can more effectively be supported in the future, especially in times of global crisis.Part 2. The research addresses the intensifying intersection between geopolitics and global science by engaging directly with US and Chinese scientists collaborating on COVID-19. The study employs a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating frameworks from research policy studies and securitization studies to identify the range of challenges scientists experienced during the pandemic and how scholarly relationships were created or maintained. Data will be based on a survey and interviews among US and Chinese scientists who have coauthored a US-China scientific paper on COVID-19. Among the key data analyses will be to examine the extent to which securitization may have supported or hindered the COVID-19 research collaboration, as well as its impact on future collaboration. Additional analyses will investigate potential differences based on whether the scientific research was federally funded. The findings will contribute to current understandings of the relationship between the nation-state and international science cooperation, particularly the impact that global crises and geopolitics may have on scientists’ abilities to engage in the global knowledge network to produce knowledge on urgent cross-border issues.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.