What is the difference in global research on Central Asia before and after the collapse of the USSR: a bibliometric analysis

Wang, Yanwen; Hong, Su Young; Wang, Yifei; Gong, Xi; He, Chao; Lu, Zhengdong; Zhan, F. Benjamin

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03069-0

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“…According to their research, countries with higher expenditure, as a percentage of GDP, tended to have the larger spending per researcher. Wang et al [20] conducted a similar study among Central Asian countries before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. They found the highest correlation (r = 0.92) was between GDP spending and number of published papers.…”

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The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan

2022

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Kazakhstan has implemented numerous policy reforms to improve its research environment since 1991, experiencing both positive changes and critical challenges. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive investigation of the country’s research environment. Our materials include statistical data, science policy reports, bibliometric data from Scopus, and interview responses. Using descriptive statistics and regression analysis, we analyze the country’s publication capacity, key characteristics, and science funding by the government. We critically review significant policy reforms and conduct interviews with subject matter experts. Our findings suggest there has been an increasing number of publications and growth in citations since joining the Bologna process in 2010, and that there is a high positive correlation between the volume of science funding and publication output, development levels across fields of science, and focus from science on commercialization of science. The challenges relate to publishing in international journals, government financing and commercialization, researcher capacity, scientific areas, and international collaboration. Our contributions to scholarly communication and science policy are two-fold. First, we present the relationship between several factors/policies and the research environment. Second, we reveal the main challenges Kazakhstan and its academic community have experienced which can be considered by stakeholders, including the government, academic institutions, researchers, and other developing countries.

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The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan

2022

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“…But Soviet leaders tended to focus on industrial development while ignoring ecological problems (Wang, Hong, et al, 2019) leading to significant adverse trans-boundary environmental impacts such as the shrinkage of the Aral Sea (Micklin, 1988). Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five Central Asian countries gained independence and adopted different methods for transitioning from a collective economy to a market economy (Mirzabaev, 2013).…”

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“…After the collapse of the Soviet Union, to seek new economic and commercial opportunities, governments established unprecedented international trade cooperation in minerals, crude oil and natural gas. Over the past two decades, Kazakhstan's economy has depended heavily on the export of petroleum and minerals (Wang, Hong, et al, 2019). However, fossil fuel production and use have significant implications for carbon emissions.…”

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Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows

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“…To the best of the authors' knowledge, the most recent reports about Central Asia' 's research output in its entirety as a separate region provided only a limited comparison within the area without a detailed analysis of quantified indicators (Ovezmyradov & Kepbanov, 2020UNESCO, 2016). There exist peer-reviewed studies employing a bibliometric analysis to provide specific comparisons within and between countries in the region, but their main focus is either individual countries or generally foreign research on Central Asia (Wang et al, 2015;Kuzhabekova & Ruby, 2018b;Cмaгyлoв et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019;Eshchanov et al, 2021). Meanwhile, this less-known part of the world presents an intriguing case for scientometrics to study.…”

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Applying quantified indicators in Central Asian science: can metrics improve the regional research performance?

Ovezmyradov

2022

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Quantified indicators are increasingly used for performance evaluations in the science sectors worldwide. However, relatively little information is available on the expanding use of research metrics in certain transition countries. Central Asia is a post-Soviet region where newly independent states achieved lower research performance relative to comparators in key indicators of productivity and integrity. The majority of the countries in this region showed an overall declining or stagnating research impact in the recent decade since 2008. This study discusses the implications of research metrics as applied to the transition countries based on the framework of ten principles of the Leiden Manifesto. They can guide Central Asian policymakers in creating systems for a more objective evaluation of research performance based on globally recognized indicators. Given the local conditions of authoritarianism and corruption, the broader use of transparent indicators in decision-making can help improve the positions of Central Asian science in international rankings.

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What is the difference in global research on Central Asia before and after the collapse of the USSR: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract: What is the difference in global research on Central Asia before and after the collapse of the USSR: a bibliometric analysis Yanwen Wang, et al. [full author details at the end of the article]

Cited by 8 publications

References 60 publications

The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan

The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan

Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows

Applying quantified indicators in Central Asian science: can metrics improve the regional research performance?

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