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T1 Differences in citation impact across countries
A1 Albarrán, Pedro
A1 Perianes-Rodríguez, Antonio
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB Using a large dataset, indexed by Thomson Reuters, consisting of 4.4 million articlespublished in 1998-2003 with a five-year citation window for each year, this paper studies countrycitation distributions in a partition of the world into 36 countries and two geographical areas inthe all-sciences case and eight broad scientific fields. The key findings are the following two.Firstly, the shape of country citation distributions is highly skewed and very similar to each otheracross all fields. Secondly, differences in country citation distributions appear to have a strongscale factor component. The implication is that, in spite of the skewness of citation distributions,international comparisons of citation impact in terms of country mean citations capture well suchscale factors. The empirical scenario described in the paper helps understanding why, in eachfield and the all-sciences case, the country rankings according to (i) mean citations and (ii) thepercentage of articles in each country belonging to the set formed by the 10% of the more highlycited papers are so similar to each other.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2013
FD 2013-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/16203
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/16203
LA eng
NO Albarrán acknowledges additional financial support from the Spanish MEC through grants ECO2009-11165 and ECO2011-29751, and Ruiz-Castillo through grant SEJ2007-67436.
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