Abstract:
ln today's knowledge society, research through international collabor{ion is recognized
as malor actor in development and growth of country. Most researchers recognize the
importance of collaboration and working in partnership with colleagues both within and
ouiside their countries. The percentage of Nobel Prizes in many fields awarded to two or
three individuals from different countries for one project gives an indication of the value
and frequency of collaborative research in these fields. lnternational Research
collaboration of sri Lanka on social sciences between academia and R&D institutions
may also allow investigators to see realworld application of research in the field of social
and behavioural sciences. The total number6f research output of Sri Lanka in the SBSC/
from 199g to 2Ol2consists of 398 outputs and they were published in 61 different journals.
There is a steady increase in productivity during the years 1999-20:12 except fpr marginal
fluctuation in certain years. The Sri Lankap rLsearch outputs on Socialand behavioural
Sciences have been produced in collaboration with 93 co-untries in tlle world' United
States of America is the country which has the most predominant collaboration to share
with Sri Lanka with a count of Oo 1t 7 .34o/o), followed by UlG64 (16.087d) and Australia-
49 (12.3go/o). Research outputs through collaboratiory€mong Sri Lanka United States of
America on Social and behavioural Sciences are distributed across.19 categories in
SBS and Most of the papers published throdgh thiS collaborative research by Sodal and
behavioural scientisis deal with "Psychology" and "Economics" which accounts for
36(47.34%) and 1 5 (20.17%) papers respectively. Also the total number of citStions and
the citation p"r pup"i has increased in comparison with the earlier years. ThiS paper also
describes institutional contribution, preference of journals for cordmunication, contribution
of funding agencies, document type for the publication, yearwise output alrd predominant
scientists in the collaborative research between sri Lanka arid united States of America
on Social and behavioral Sciences during 1999-2012.This study will be brought to the
attention and benefit of researchers as well as institutions of Sri Lanka and United States
of America
