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International alignment and scientific regard as macro-indicators for international comparisons of publications

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  • Hariolf Grupp

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI)
    Karlsruhe University)

  • Ulrich Schmoch

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI))

  • Sybelle Hinze

    (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI))

Abstract

Many international comparisons of the publication performance at themacro level are based on direct counts of citation frequencies in the ScienceCitation Index. However, these comparisons may reveal a significant negativelanguage bias for non-English-speaking countries, or other selection biases,which can be illustrated by the relation between research budgets of scientificinstitutions and SCI publications. Against this background, a two-dimensionalrepresentation, specifying for the international alignment of the nationalpublications and the journal-standardized citation impact, proves to be amore appropriate indicator base to assess the citation performance of countriessuch as Germany. In the light of a ten countries' benchmark, time seriesof these indicators for the nineties show a considerable impact of the Germanunification with a recent trend towards an adaptation of publication behaviourin East Germany towards the Western patterns.

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  • Hariolf Grupp & Ulrich Schmoch & Sybelle Hinze, 2001. "International alignment and scientific regard as macro-indicators for international comparisons of publications," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 51(2), pages 359-380, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:51:y:2001:i:2:d:10.1023_a:1012703117727
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1012703117727
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