Scientometric indicators are traditionally split into two types: evaluative and relational. The purpose of the former is to evaluate research-related activities whereas the latter are used to describe or explore research relationships. In practice, however, there are many indicators that are of...

The growth in the importance of co-operation between universities, industry and government to contemporary research has created a need to understand how cross-sector research collaborations occur in practice. Hence quantitative methods are needed to identify and assess the strength of...