Unbalanced international collaboration affects adversely the usefulness of countries’ scientific output as well as their technological and social impact

Sonia R. Zanotto, Cristina Haeffner and Jorge A. Guimarães ()
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Sonia R. Zanotto: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE - RS)
Cristina Haeffner: Hospital Moinhos de Vento
Jorge A. Guimarães: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 109, issue 3, No 19, 1789-1814

Abstract: Abstract The unbalanced international scientific collaboration as cause of misleading information on the country’s contribution to the scientific world output was analyzed. ESI Data Base (Thomson Reuters’ InCites), covering the scientific production of 217 active countries in the period 2010–2014 was used. International collaboration implicates in a high percentage (33.1 %) of double-counted world articles, thus impacting qualitative data as citations, impact and impact relative to word. The countries were divided into three groups, according to their individual contribution to the world publications: Group I (24 countries, at least 1 %) representing 83.9 % of the total double-counted world articles. Group II (40 countries, 0.1–0.99 % each). Group III, 153 countries (70.5 %) with

Keywords: Scientific production; Impact; International collaboration; Double-counting of articles; Bibliometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2126-8

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