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The measurement of scientific excellence around the world

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorAlbarrán, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-12T09:42:13Z
dc.date.available2012-04-12T09:42:13Z
dc.date.issued2012-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews scientific excellence in 38 countries and eight geographical areas using two sets of novel indicators of citation impact: a family of high-impact indicators imported from the poverty literature in Economics, and a set of indicators within the percentile rank approach. Among the main findings with a dataset of about 4.4 million from Thomson Scientific we emphasize the following three. (i) The proportion of articles of a research unit in the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in the world, and two important percentile rank indicators bring no novelty relative to a traditional average-based indicator. (ii) A high-impact indicator very sensitive to citation inequality is seen to be useful to detect success at a local level, but not for a global ranking that includes small research units. (iii) A monotonic high-impact indicator sensitive to any increase in citations is used to rank the partition of the world into 46 units in the 22 broad fields distinguished by Thomson Scientific, as well as the all-sciences case.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors acknowledge financial support by Santander Universities Global Division of Banco Santander. Albarrán acknowledges additional financial support from the Spanish MEC through grants ECO2009-11165 y ECO2011-29751, and Ruiz-Castillo through grant SEJ2007-67436. This paper is produced as part of the project Science, Innovation, Firms and markets in a Globalised World (SCIFIGLOW), a Collaborative Project funded by the European Commission's Seventh Research Framework Programme, Contract number SSH7-CT-2008-217436.
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1208
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/13896
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000000876
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries12-08
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/217436
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2009-11165
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2011-29751
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. SEJ2007-67436
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherCitation analysis
dc.subject.otherWorld rankings
dc.subject.otherHigh-impact indicators
dc.subject.otherPercentile rank indicators
dc.titleThe measurement of scientific excellence around the world
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