Publication Date:
2012-03-15
Description:
In the present work we analyze the Country Profiles , open access data from ISI Thomson Reuter’s Science Watch . The country profiles are rankings of the output (indexed in Web of Science) in different knowledge fields during a determined time span for a given country. The analysis of these data permits defining a Country Profile Index, a tool for diagnosing the activity of the scientific community of a country and their possible strengths and weakness. Furthermore, such analysis also enables the search for identities among research patterns of different countries, time evolution of such patterns and the importance of the adherence to the database journals portfolio in evaluating the productivity in a given knowledge field. Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-15 DOI 10.1007/s11192-012-0696-7 Authors Peter A. Schulz, Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Pedro Zaccaria, 1300, Limeira, SP 13484-350, Brazil Edmilson J. T. Manganote, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Sergio Buarque de Holanda, 777, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Campinas, SP 13083-859, Brazil Journal Scientometrics Online ISSN 1588-2861 Print ISSN 0138-9130
Print ISSN:
0138-9130
Electronic ISSN:
1588-2861
Topics:
Information Science and Librarianship
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Nature of Science, Research, Systems of Higher Education, Museum Science
