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

第1部分。在SARS-COV-2大流行期间，中美科学家在大流行相关研究论文上的合作频率高于过去5年的一般论文，凸显了国际合作在应对全球危机中的价值。这种合作是如何发生的，这在很大程度上仍不得而知。本研究的主要目的是研究中美在COVID-19方面的研究合作是如何发生的，特别是科学民族主义和全球竞争力是如何影响这些合作的。该项目将超越对研究合作的标准文献计量学分析，开展混合方法调查研究，以更好地了解合作关系是如何建立或维持的，以及合作开展COVID-19研究的科学家所经历或克服的挑战。这些发现将对如何有效地平衡快速产生知识的需求、克服对研究过程的干扰以及确保研究遵守既定的监管协议产生至关重要的见解。其长期影响将是增进对如何在未来，特别是在全球危机时期更有效地支持科技合作的理解。第2部分。该研究通过直接与合作研究COVID-19的中美科学家接触，解决了地缘政治与全球科学之间日益加剧的交集。该研究采用了一种多学科方法，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。数据将基于对共同撰写中美新冠肺炎科学论文的中美科学家的调查和访谈。关键数据分析将包括审查证券化在多大程度上支持或阻碍了COVID-19研究合作，以及对未来合作的影响。额外的分析将根据科学研究是否得到联邦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和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以产生关于紧急跨境问题的知识的能力产生的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.