Research Consortia Determine a Significant Part of the Bibliometric Visibility of Estonian Science

Hirv, Tanel

doi:10.3176/tr.2019.3.02

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“…Thus, although international collaboration is usually mutually beneficial, sometimes it is even more advantageous for researchers from smaller or less advanced countries. This is well exemplified by a recent study by Hirv (2019) who showed that, when controlling for the share of hyperauthored papers resulting from large-scale international consortia (e.g., CERN, IDEFIX consortium), Iceland plunges from the first position in the HQSI to the 12th, Peru from sixth to 30th, and Estonia from 12th to 31st.…”

Section: Science Is a Collaborative Enterprisementioning

confidence: 78%

“…Thus, the relatively high position of Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda in the HQSI (Table 1) may be due to (a) their participation in large international consortia that produce many highly cited papers (cf. Hirv, 2019) and (b) the absence of scientific papers in some other fields that would decrease their mean citation rate. The true leaders in African science such as South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Algeria (Sooryamoorthy, 2018) foster a wider range of disciplines even if not all of them are necessarily beneficial for the nation's mean citation rate.…”

Section: Do the Hqsi Rankings Make Sense?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

Allïk

Lauk

Realo

2020

Cross-Cultural Research

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It has been repeatedly demonstrated that economic affluence is one of the main predictors of the scientific wealth of nations. Yet, the link is not as straightforward as is often presented. First, only a limited set of relatively affluent countries is usually studied. Second, there are differences between equally rich countries in their scientific success. The main aim of the present study is to find out which factors can enhance or suppress the effect of the economic wealth of countries on their scientific success, as measured by the High Quality Science Index ( HQSI). The HQSI is a composite indicator of scientific wealth, which in equal parts considers the mean citation rate per paper and the percentage of papers that have reached the top 1% of citations in the Essential Science Indicators ( ESI; Clarivate Analytics) database during the 11-year period from 2008 to 2018. Our results show that a high position in the ranking of countries on the HQSI can be achieved not only by increasing the number of high-quality papers but also by reducing the number of papers that are able to pass ESI thresholds but are of lower quality. The HQSI was positively and significantly correlated with the countries’ economic indicators (as measured by gross national income and Research and Development expenditure as a percentage from GDP), but these correlations became insignificant when other societal factors were controlled for. Overall, our findings indicate that it is small and well-governed countries with a long-standing democratic past that seem to be more efficient in translating economic wealth into high-quality science.

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Section: Science Is a Collaborative Enterprisementioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Do the Hqsi Rankings Make Sense?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

Allïk

Lauk

Realo

2020

Cross-Cultural Research

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“…Globally, internationally co-authored publications tend to be more cited and have higher impact than domestically co-authored publications (Adams, 2013;Bordons et al, 2015;Glänzel, 2001;Olechnicka et al, 2017). For example, Hirv (2019) examines the Estonian case of having a large proportion of high impact publications. The study explains the phenomenon of mega-collaborations in physics or in medicine/epidemiology where some papers have hundreds or even thousands of authors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet, researchers at universities, research institutes, and industrial research centres in post-Soviet countries have not stood still. There exists only a small number of published studies about post-Soviet period covering either selected countries or regions, such as studies examining the research output from the Baltic countries (Allik, 2008(Allik, , 2015Hirv, 2019;Kristapsons et al, 2003;Lauk & Allik, 2018;Zavadskas et al, 2011), Russia (Kirchik et al, 2012;Markusova et al, 2009;Moed et al, 2018;Moskaleva et al, 2018;Pislyakov & Shukshina, 2014;Wilson & Markusova, 2004;Yegorov, 2009), post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Kozak et al, 2015), the Caucasus (Gzoyan et al, 2015), and Central Asia (Adambekov et al, 2016;Yessirkepov et al, 2015). A recent paper uses bibliometric analysis to compare the productivity of Russian researchers with those from other post-Soviet countries (Alimova & Brumshteyn, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Then and now, mega-collaborations have been a common practice in many countries. Normally, publications with large numbers of authors tend to be more cited and the impact of such publications can greatly affect the overall bibliometric indicators for countries, especially if the country has a small total number of publications (Aksnes & Sivertsen, 2004;Hirv, 2019;Potter et al, 2020). In contrast, "the lonely scholar" model remains prevalent in humanities and to a certain extent in social sciences (Kwiek, 2017;Lewis et al, 2012).…”

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A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

2021

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The world’s largest community of scientists disintegrated following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With extremely scarce resources and limited academic freedom as starting points, researchers in this region have been creating new knowledge; they have been building on rich scientific traditions in selected disciplines and, at times, paving new paths in non-traditional disciplines. At present, the cumulative contribution of post-Soviet countries to global research output is only three percent, indicating that these countries are not key players on the global research scene. This study uses bibliometric methods to offer novel empirical insight into the quantity and impact of academic publications; it also looks at the quality of journals in which the output is published. The findings reveal that fifteen post-Soviet countries differ considerably in terms of how much they have prioritised research, as well as the quantity, quality, and impact of their publications. The research productivity across the region has not been high and, taken together, these countries have produced publications of considerably lower quality and lower impact when viewed in the context of global research output. At the same time, researchers from post-Soviet countries tap into international collaborative networks actively, resulting in an exceptionally large proportion of publications from this region being internationally co-authored. In the historical context of Soviet research being known as one of the least collaborative globally, this finding indicates that researchers in the region are attractive to international collaborators and may be seeking such partnerships due to relatively modest research capacity at home.

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The interplay of the size of the research system, ways of collaboration, level, and method of funding in determining bibliometric outputs

Hirv

2022

Scientometrics

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Research Consortia Determine a Significant Part of the Bibliometric Visibility of Estonian Science

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

The interplay of the size of the research system, ways of collaboration, level, and method of funding in determining bibliometric outputs

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