Resumen
The concept of ?academic globalization? has recently emerged to describe increased international collaboration in education and research. One can expect that globalization research would highly benefit from this collaboration. In this paper, we focus on the evolving patterns of international co-authorship networks in globalization research within urban studies and planning between 1991 and 2009. Data was extracted from the Science Citation Index. Social network analysis tool, UCInet, was used to examine the changing patterns of international collaborations by comparing four five-year time frames. The results indicate that international co-authorship networks are growing rapidly and although the network remains loosely connected, the increasing variation in the strength of each actor?s position indicates a trend towards greater clustering and centralization. We also find that globalization research in urban studies and planning follows a general pattern that is described by other authors as evolving self-organizing networks. Keywords: academic globalization, knowledge networks, complexity, self-organization, globalization, urban studies, urban planning