Dependency of ERC-funded Research on US Collaborations

An article by Sandeep Chowdhary, Nicolò Defenu, Federico Musciotto & Federico Battiston in Nature Physics.

Annually, the European Research Council (ERC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) allocate resources to promote research excellence in Europe and the USA. We observe that European Union (EU)-based researchers rely strongly on United States (US) collaborations to secure top EU funding, while the reverse is much less common.

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