Does international collaboration yield a higher citation potential for <scp>US</scp> scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary Journals?

Abstract

Generally, multicountry papers receive more citations than single‐country ones. In this contribution, we examine if this rule also applies to A merican scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary journals. Concretely, we compare the citations received by A merican scientists in N ature , S cience , and the P roceedings of the N ational A cademy of S ciences of the U nited S tates of A merica ( PNAS ). It is shown that, statistically, A merican scientists publishing in N ature and S cience do not benefit from international collaboration. This statement also holds for communicated submissions, but not for direct and for contributed submissions, to PNAS .