Bibliometrik Maps of Scientific Collaboration of EU Countries

The paper presents bibliometric analysis of the international scientifi c collaboration of 27 EU coun-tries in the fi eld of science and social sciences. The object of the paper is the joint publications of authors from the 27 EU member- states in the fi elds of science and of social sciences. Material for this analysis was drawn from DBs WOS: SCIex 2006 and SSCI 2006. The states as wholes are considered here as participants of collaboration. If a paper has two or more authors from diff erent countries, it belongs to the material of the present study. The discovery of specifi c country- to- country links is based on the comparison of actual collaboration fi gures with theoretical values, calculated on the assumption of mutual statistical independence. The results are presented with the help of two maps showing those specifi c links