Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration

Abstract

Measuring international research collaboration is necessary when evaluating, for example, the efficacy of policy meant to increase cooperation between countries, but is currently very difficult as bibliographic records contain only affiliation data from which there is no standard method to identify the relevant countries. In this paper we describe a method to address this difficulty, and evaluate it using both general and domain-specific data sets.