From the “European Paradox” to a European Drama in citation impact

Ruiz-Castillo, Javier

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From the “European Paradox” to a European Drama in citation impact

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Economía	es
dc.contributor.author	Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editor	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-01T13:51:51Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-01T13:51:51Z
dc.date.issued	2012-04
dc.description	Conversations with Pedro Albarrán, Juan A. Crespo, and Ignacio Ortuño are gratefully acknowledged
dc.description.abstract	This paper has two main aims: (i) to criticize the diagnosis about the research performance of the EU contained in the so-called “European Paradox”, according to which Europe plays a leading world role in terms of scientific excellence, but lacks the entrepreneurial capacity of the U.S. to transform this excellence into innovation, growth, and jobs; and (ii) to study the heterogeneity among the 15 member countries of the EU prior to the 2004 accession. For the first aim, we use a Thomson Scientific dataset with 3.6 million articles published in 1998-2002 with a five-year citation window, and a partition of the world into three large geographical areas including the U.S., the EU, and the rest of the world. For the second aim, we use a dataset with 800,000 articles more published in 2003, and a partition of the world into 38 countries and eight geographical areas. The main results are the following two. Firstly, the European Paradox hides a truly European Drama: judging from citation impact in the periodical literature, the dominance of the U.S. over the EU is almost universal at all aggregation levels. Secondly, since the UK and six small European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, and Sweden) perform relatively well, the explanation of this European Drama must be found in the relative poor performance of Germany and France and, above all, Italy and Spain among the four larger continental countries
dc.description.sponsorship	The author acknowledges financial support from the Santander Universities Global Division of Banco Santander, as well as from the Spanish MEC through grant SEJ2007-67436
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.issn	2340-5031
dc.identifier.repec	we1211
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14441
dc.identifier.uxxi	DT/0000000874
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	UC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries	12-11
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/217436
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Economía
dc.subject.jel	031
dc.subject.jel	Y80
dc.subject.jel	Z00
dc.subject.other	Citation analysis
dc.subject.other	Web of Science categories
dc.subject.other	Journal classification
dc.subject.other	Research performance
dc.subject.other	Normalization
dc.subject.other	European Paradox
dc.title	From the “European Paradox” to a European Drama in citation impact
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