Altvater-Mackensen N, Balicki G, Bestakowa L, et al. "Science and technology in the region: The output of regional science and technology, its strengths and its leading institutions " SCIENTOMETRICS 63 (3): 463-529 JUN 2005

[Eugene Garfield]

W.G. Stock :  stock at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

Title: Science and technology in the region: The output of regional science
and technology, its strengths and its leading institutions

Author(s): Altvater-Mackensen N, Balicki G, Bestakowa L, Bocatius B, Braun
J, Brehmer L, Brune V, Eigemeier K, Erdem F, Fritscher R, Jacobs A,
Klingsporn B, Kosinski M, Kuntze J, Lee JR, Osterhage A, Probost M, Risch
T, Schmitt T, Stock WG, Sturm A, Weller K, Werner K

Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 63 (3): 463-529 JUN 2005

Document Type: Article   Language: English
Cited References: 40      Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
We operationalize scientific output in a region by means of the number of
articles (as in the SciSearch database) per year and technology output by
means of the number of patent applications (as in the database of the
European Patent Office) per priority year. All informetric analyses were
done using the DIALOG online-system. The main research questions are the
following: Which scientific and technological fields or topics are most
influent within a region and which institutions or companies are mainly
publishing articles or holding patents? Do the distributions of regional
science and technology fields and of publishing institutions follow the
well-known informetric function? Are there - as it is expected - only few
fields and few institutions which dominate the region? Is there a
connection between the economic power of a region and the regional
publication and patent output? Examples studied in detail are seven German
regions: Aachen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Koln (Cologne), Leipzig - Halle -
Dessau, Munchen (Munich), and Stuttgart. Three different indicators were
used, science and technology attraction of a region (number of scientific
articles and patents), science and technology intensity (articles and
patents per 1,000 inhabitants), and science and technology density
(articles and patents per 1 billion EURO gross value added). Top region
concerning both attraction and intensity is Munich, concerning density it
is Aachen.

Addresses: Stock WG (reprint author), Univ Dusseldorf, Dept Informat Sci,
Univ Str 1, Dusseldorf, D-40225 Germany
Univ Dusseldorf, Dept Informat Sci, Dusseldorf, D-40225 Germany

E-mail Addresses: stock at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS

IDS Number: 924UH

ISSN: 0138-9130

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