Help me get data on citations

[Nadeem Haque]

I think you misunderstand me. I am not asking for much. But first let me explain why this is important.
For too long, development policy has advised that poor countries should focus on literacy, school enrollent and so on. It is a stages arguemnt where we have to cross thorugh all the thresholds that Europe went thorugh before inveting in science and technology.
As a result, much of the higher learning capability has been denuded in these countries. India is the only country that stuck its neck out against this theology and set up teh IITs and the IIMs. The result is that India has a citation and paper count well beyond its stage of developmet. And to me that sets my hypothesis: a country can only benefit from the global pool of knowledge if it has a well-developed scientific community.
Now if I can show that investment in science and research pays in terms of economic growh, this accepted philosophy might change. I intend to use data showing sceintific achievement accross countries to assess its impact on economic growth.  Hence I am seeking indicators of scientific achievement. Citations, papers and journals, I think will give me a good indicator of a country's capability.
I think you misunderstand. I am not looking for economists only. I want to get
   Papers written (and citations of) by nationals of countries from within their countries of origin in reputable journals
   Papers written (and citations of) by nationals of countries in other coutnries
   Journal distribution accorss countires

All I would be interested in is aggregated data say for "science" and "Social science" and "humanities"

I have seen that ISI and some papers use data for many different countries. Accept they use 20 or 30 countries.  Can we go a little further?. Is it possible to get say about 60 or 70 countries and for one or two of these categories, say get citation counts and citation counts for journals.

I hope you agree that it is an important issue and only a list like this can help.

All the best.

Nadeem

 Thomas Krichel <krichel at OPENLIB.ORG> wrote:This project is too ambitous, you will have a very hard time
to find such data. Have you looked at teh RePEc database? It
does have some freely accessible citation data, but not much.

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel at openlib.org
http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel


Nadeem Ul Haque
IMF Res Rep--Egypt
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