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

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Disziplinspezifische Publikationsprofile für China, Japan und Deutschland
("Research Articles" & "Reviews", Publikationsjahr 2007)
Physik
Agrarwissenschaften
30%
25%
Biologie und Biotechnologie
Nanotechnologie
20%
15%
Chemie
10%
Multidisziplinäre Zeitschriften
5%
0%
Energie
China
Japan
Deutschland
Medizin
Ingenieurwissenschaften
Mathematik
Geowissenschaften
Materialwissenschaften
Informationswissenschaft und
Informatik
For this comparison, we determined the share of research articles and reviews published by
each country in 2007 in a specific discipline in the databases included in the Web of Science.
Distortions were therefore excluded from the comparisons. The graphic above, for example,
shows that China was involved in almost 30 % of all publications in the category “materials
science” in the Web of Science. The citation rates were also compared with a global reference
for each discipline in order to compare the performance of all countries under optimal
conditions.
The last chapter of the study looks at the issue of networking between the countries studied in
the form of a network analysis using bibliometric methods. A network analysis for the Asian
countries is compared to a corresponding analysis for a comparable number of countries as a
test. The results allow us to conclude that scientific cooperations in South-East Asia have
intensified more than the average, which in turn allows us to speak of the development of a
research area from a bibliometric perspective.
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