Trend in research output and collaboration pattern among BRICS countries: A scientometric study

Singh, Mukhtiar; Hasan, Nabi

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“…However, numerous studies were carried out in BRICS countries that examined various facets of their research output (Mangi, 2014; Tripathi et al , 2018). Singh and Hasan (2015) evaluated that BRICS countries contributed the maximum number (12.43%) of papers that have been indexed in Web of Science in the year 2013. A recent study by Ligade and Dengale (2019) indicated that 17.3 per cent share of the world’s research papers in science and engineering is contributed by the BRICS countries.…”

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An analysis of research output in open access journals in BRICS countries: a bibliometric study

Zia

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the current status of research output published in open access (OA) journals from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries from 2010 to 2019 and compare their performances in terms of OA research output. Design/methodology/approach Papers contributed by the researchers of BRICS countries were searched using an advanced search option in the Web of Science core collection database. The retrieved results were restricted to the “journal articles” published in the “English language” during the time period of 2010 to 2019. After that, the selected papers were again refined by using the “open access” section to identify the research output of BRICS countries published in OA journals. Findings Total 2,219,943 papers were published from BRICS countries, out of which 402,199 articles were published in OA journals and South Africa has published the highest number of research output in OA journals (31%). Although, there has been a constant increasing growth of research output published in OA journals in BRICS countries from 13,300 papers in 2010 to 82,310 articles in 2019. Engineering and Technology have published the maximum number of papers in OA journals. Researchers of BRICS countries mostly contributed their OA research output in journals published from the USA and Scientific Reports (UK) is identified as one of the leading OA journals. Additionally, among all the BRICS countries, China is found as the promising leader in terms of OA journals publications, the maximum share i.e. 71.25 per cent of total 402,199 OA journal publications have been produced by the highest number 137 (23.41%) of institutions of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) is leading institution with 39,036 papers published in OA journals. Research limitations/implications This study is limited to BRICS countries, but it offers theoretical implications for extending its scope to different countries. This study may be used for raising awareness of OA among researchers of BRICS countries and encouraging them to contribute their research work in OA journals. The findings of this study are useful and meaningful in understanding the comparative status of research across countries, disciplines, journals and institutions. Originality/value This is the first study in BRICS countries focusing on the research output published in OA journals.

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An analysis of research output in open access journals in BRICS countries: a bibliometric study

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“…15 BRICS countries together accounted for an impressive 233.4% growth in 2011 over 1995 in publishing science and engineering research papers, whereas the growth rate for other countries was 31.3%. 16 Other than Russia, the output of BRICS countries increased for most frequently cited papers at a higher rate than top-cited countries globally. 17 The co-authored papers among the BRICS countries are found to be countries with which they have “geographical” “cultural” and/or “historical” proximity.…”

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A bibliometric study on the research outcome of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

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Background: Publication is one of the quantitative measures of countries' contribution to research and innovation. This paper attempts to understand the publication related information of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Methods: Detailed analysis of publications on the basis of collaboration, research area, number of publications, percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spent on research, and citation is presented in the paper. An attempt is also made to understand the relations between each of the parameters and the overall performance of the country. Results: Times Higher Education global ranking is considered as a measure to validate the claims of this paper. This study shows that among the BRICS nations, China with the highest percentage of GDP spent on research has also the highest number of researchers and publication output whereas South Africa excels in terms of number of international collaborative publications and publications in high impact journals. This article has highlighted the distribution of publications as per the subject area with India leading in the area of Computer Science. Discussion: Results showed a strong relationship between each of the parameters discussed on the research performance of a country.

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“…The analysis route includes East Asia and the Philippines in the last 18 years. There are existing recent related literature works that have performed scientometric analysis on specific countries or specific regions [7,9,10,11] or domain for a time period and/or country [8]. We have based this research on a scientometric research by Ussin and Singh [5] where demographic and economic correlations on research outputs are determined.…”

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Scientometric Mapping of Social Science Studies in East Asia and the Philippines

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Trend in research output and collaboration pattern among BRICS countries: A scientometric study

Cited by 8 publications

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An analysis of research output in open access journals in BRICS countries: a bibliometric study

An analysis of research output in open access journals in BRICS countries: a bibliometric study

A bibliometric study on the research outcome of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

Scientometric Mapping of Social Science Studies in East Asia and the Philippines

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