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

Hariolf Grupp, Ulrich Schmoch and Sybelle Hinze
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Hariolf Grupp: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI)
Ulrich Schmoch: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI)
Sybelle Hinze: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI)

Scientometrics, 2001, vol. 51, issue 2, No 1, 359-380

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2001
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