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T1 The measurement of scientific excellence around  the world
A1 Albarrán, Pedro
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This paper reviews scientific excellence in 38 countries and eight geographical areas using two sets ofnovel indicators of citation impact: a family of high-impact indicators imported from the povertyliterature in Economics, and a set of indicators within the percentile rank approach. Among the mainfindings 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 papersin the world, and two important percentile rank indicators bring no novelty relative to a traditionalaverage-based indicator. (ii) A high-impact indicator very sensitive to citation inequality is seen to beuseful 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 thepartition of the world into 46 units in the 22 broad fields distinguished by Thomson Scientific, as wellas the all-sciences case.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2012
FD 2012-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13896
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13896
LA eng
NO The authors acknowledge financial support by Santander Universities Global Division of BancoSantander. Albarrán acknowledges additional financial support from the Spanish MEC through grantsECO2009-11165 y ECO2011-29751, and Ruiz-Castillo through grant SEJ2007-67436. This paper isproduced 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 FrameworkProgramme, Contract number SSH7-CT-2008-217436.
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