Scientific publication performance in post-communist countries: still lagging far behind

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081707:_____/17:00507715

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2389-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2389-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2389-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11192-017-2389-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Scientific publication performance in post-communist countries: still lagging far behind

Original language description

We present a bibliometric comparison of publication performance in 226 scientific disciplines in the Web of Science (WoS) for six post-communist EU member states relative to six EU-15 countries of a comparable size. We compare not only overall countrylevel publication counts, but also high quality publication output where publication quality is inferred from the journal Article Influence Scores. As of 2010–2014, post-communist countries are still lagging far behind their EU counterparts, with the exception of a few scientific disciplines mainly in Slovenia. Moreover, research in post-communist countries tends to focus relatively more on quantity rather than quality. The relative publication performance of post-communist countries in the WoS is strongest in natural sciences and engineering. Future research is needed to reveal the underlying causes of these performance differences, which may include funding and productivity gaps, the historical legacy of the communist ideology, and Web of Science coverage differences.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientometrics

ISSN

0138-9130

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

112

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

315-328

UT code for WoS article

000403466900016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85018516583