Analyzing the number of publications and proportion of corresponding authors of Latin American scholars and scholars from the German Max Planck Society (MPS) and the Leibniz Association (LA; 1954–2018), this article asks if North–South partnerships continue to represent power imbalances. Our bibliometric analysis indicates that (a) in comparison with the LA, the MPS’s scientists published more articles with Latin American countries, led by Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico; (b) researchers from the MPS and the LA frequently took the role of corresponding author; (c) researchers from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico primarily controlled their region’s productivity, but (d) Brazil built its own multinational research networks; and (e) countries with less productivity, such as Colombia and Uruguay, are on peripheries of research networks. Our findings indicate that the decolonial perspective needs further development to identify multipolar relationships of dominance and collaboration have developed out of a dichotomy world of North–South relations.

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新兴的非殖民化研究合作：马克斯·普朗克学会和拉丁美洲的莱布尼兹协会

通过分析拉美学者和来自德国马克斯·普朗克学会（MPS）和莱布尼兹协会（LA; 1954–2018）的学者的出版物数量和相应作者的比例，本文提出南北伙伴关系是否继续代表着权力失衡。我们的文献计量分析表明：（a）与洛杉矶相比，MPS的科学家在巴西，智利，阿根廷和墨西哥等拉丁美洲国家中发表了更多文章；（b）MPS和LA的研究人员经常担任通讯作者；（c）来自巴西，智利，阿根廷和墨西哥的研究人员主要控制了该地区的生产力，但（d）巴西建立了自己的跨国研究网络；（e）生产力较低的国家，例如哥伦比亚和乌拉圭，处于研究网络的外围。