Bibliometric Analysis Asia-Pacific Research Area ... - JuSER

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Discipline‐specific publication profiles for Indonesia and Vietnam
("research articles" & "reviews" published in 2007)
Physics
Agricultural science
0.3%
0.2%
Biology and biotechnology
Nanotechnology
0.2%
Chemistry
0.1%
Multidisciplinary journals
0.1%
Energy
Indonesia
0.0%
Vietnam
Medicine
Engineering
Mathematics
Geosciences
Materials science
Information and computer
science
Figure 107: Discipline-specific publication profiles for Indonesia and Vietnam
The network diagrams reveal that the smaller countries have many peaks in their publication
output in the various disciplines, while the larger countries tend to have circular curves. This can
be explained by the fact that the smaller countries usually specialise in individual disciplines,
while the larger countries tend to be equally represented in all disciplines.
A global reference is not just essential in creating publication profiles but also in the
normalisation of the citation rate. This allows a global citation rate to be calculated for each
discipline studied. The citation rate of a country in a discipline can then be measured in relation
to the global citation rate in order to assess the performance of the country.
In the following network diagrams, the percentages are given for each country in each
discipline. A value of 100 % corresponds to the global average. Values above or below 100 %
lie above or below the average citation rate in a discipline, respectively. This reveals that China
is below the global average perception in almost all disciplines.
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