Quantitative Assessment of International Collaboration on Reaching the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 objectives for building a healthier human-natural relationship worldwide. Established at the United Nations Sustainable Development conference in 2012, the SDGs represent broad, interconnected targets for countries to work together for successful sustainable development. However, the goals of academic research from various regions across the world often differ drastically and can be restricted by local interests. In order to fully understand the challenges with improving these human-natural connections, academic studies must be able to focus on topics relevant to sustainable development regardless of geo-political borders. In this study, we scraped over 100,000 papers from the Web of Sciences collection related to "Sustainable Development" and classified each article by the country/countries of the authors' affiliation. We performed a synonym analysis using a customized Phrase2Vec of the SDGs and associated targets. The term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) of the SDGs and their identified synonyms were used to cluster the articles to identify countries with the most similar research agendas. These clusters are compared to the existing articles written by co-authors affiliated with different countries to elucidate new opportunities for international collaboration. In order to achieve the ambitious SDGs, collaborative efforts that span geo-political boundaries are needed.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMIN020..06S
- Keywords:
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- 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1910 Data assimilation;
- integration and fusion;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment;
- NATURAL HAZARDS