ABS: Arunachalam, Science in a Small Country at a time of Globalization

[Gretchen Whitney]

AU Arunachalam, S
   Doss, MJ
TI Science in a small country at a time of globalisation: domestic
   and international collaboration in new biology research in
   Israel
SO JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
LA English
DT Article
NR 19
SN 0165-5515
PU BOWKER-SAUR LTD
C1 MS Swaminathan Res Fdn, Taramani 3rd Cross St, Chennai 600113,
   India.
   MS Swaminathan Res Fdn, Chennai 600113, India.
   Cent Leather Res Inst, Chennai, India.
ID BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; INDIA
AB From an analysis of papers indexed in three years of
   Biochemistry and Biophysics Citation Index (1992, 1995 and
   1998), it is found that 103 institutions in Israel have
   published 4,112 papers in more than 990 journals and 64 non-
   journal sources published from 27 countries. More than 16% of
   papers have appeared in journals with an impact factor (IF)
   higher than 7.00 and an equal fraction of papers have appeared
   in journals with an LF of less than 1.00. The sum of the Ifs of
   the journals in which papers have been published has been used
   as a rough measure to quantify each institution's research
   contribution. Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute and Tel
   Aviv University are the institutions publishing the largest
   number of papers, while Rehovot and Jerusalem are the leading
   cities. Journal of Biological Chemistry, Proceedings of the
   National Academy of Sciences - USA, FEES Letters and
   Biochemistry are the journals most often used by Israeli
   researchers to publish their work. To overcome the problems of
   conducting world-class research in a small country, Israel uses
   collaboration. with overseas laboratories to great advantage.
   More than 42% of papers in the sample involve international
   collaboration; half of them with laboratories in the USA and
   some with Germany, France, the UK and Canada. Over 10% of
   papers have resulted from domestic collaboration. In general,
   internationally collaborated papers are published in higher-
   impact journals, but domestically collaborated papers more
   often appear in lower-impact journals than single-institution
   papers, While the USA remains the most important partner of
   Israel, papers co-authored with French and UK collaborators
   raise the IF value of Israeli contributions more than those
   with other partner countries.
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TC 0
BP 39
EP 49
PG 11
JI J. Inf. Sci.
PY 2000
VL 26
IS 1
GA 291GC
PI E GRINSTEAD
RP Arunachalam S
   MS Swaminathan Res Fdn, Taramani 3rd Cross St, Chennai 600113, India.
J9 J INFORM SCI
PA MAYPOLE HOUSE, MAYPOLE RD,, E GRINSTEAD RH19 1HH, W SUSSEX,
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