 collaborative publications collaborative publications 45 admin mon 10142019 1830 number of publications with coauthors affiliated to organizations in different countries and sectors the indicator measures the collaboration in publications as a proxy for the quality and broadness of the initiative project s research capacity additional quantitative n a initiative project scientific report bibliometric datasources academic search databases count the number of scientific articles published during the reporting period resulting from the collaboration with researchers from organizations located in different countries or operating in different sectors indicate the number of organizations with which members of the initiative project have published articles for the sake of comparison the initiative project shall report the same figure for the two prior reporting periods number in physical units output number of articles number of collaborating organizations annually annually the indicator does not account for the longterm relationship of collaborations and whether they have been stable over time yes for the number of international collaborating organizations extract from university of limerick health research institute annual report 2017 p 21 available at  https wwwulie hri sites hri files usermedia documents hriannual 20report 2020172020finalpdf publications 