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. 2017 Apr 12;3(4):e1602232. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602232

Fig. 1. Eastern-Western European divergence.

Fig. 1

Global trends in cross-border collaboration by international region: 1996–2014. Source: SCImago Journal and Country Rank based on Scopus (40). Notably, the curves for Western (W.) Europe and Eastern (E.) Europe are, before 2004, characterized by a roughly constant offset, thereby satisfying the prior equal slope condition of the DiD framework.