Scientific research that involves international collaboration has produced papers of greater influence, as measured by the number of times a paper is cited in subsequent papers, than has research without any collaboration  Papers that result from international collaboration are cited an average of seven times, whereas papers with single authors are cited only three times on average
This difference shows that research projects conducted by international research teams are of greater importance than those conducted by single researchers
International research teams tend to be more generously funded than are single researchers.