The Internationalization of Research

In terms of higher education, the process of internationalization has been especially understood in the context of research, as this is a key function of the university. The chapter discusses the internationalisation of research as seen in the Changing Academic Profession Survey data. It looks at two basic dimensions of the internationalisation of academic research, namely international orientation of researches and international research collaboration, taking also into account the relationship between considering research as international and actually collaborating with international colleagues. Next, it focuses on international research collaboration analysing which factors may explain it. Then it turns to research outputs and their dissemination investigating whether collaborating with international colleagues has an impact on individual scientific productivity, and analysing the relationship between personal collaboration with international colleagues, seen as a more informal dimension of academic internationalisation, and international co-authorship, seen as a more formal dimension of the same process.