van Leeuwen, TN et al. Strength and weakness of national science systems. A bibliometric analysis through cooperation patterns PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL. CONF. OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II 469-479, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email address: leeuwen at cwts.nl

Author(s): van Leeuwen, TN (van Leeuwen, Thed N.); Tijssen, RJW (Tijssen, 
Robert J. W.)
 
Title: Strength and weakness of national science systems. A bibliometric 
analysis through cooperation patterns 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
469-479, 2007 

Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: scientific cooperation; co-authored research 
publications; first-authorship; impact assessment 

KeyWords Plus: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION 

Abstract: Scientific cooperation is becoming more and more important in 
nowadays scientific organization, and while scientific cooperation, and 
especially international collaboration is supposed to generate high 
scientific impact, we will show in this. study that lately, research 
publications resulting from international cooperation are losing ground in 
terms of scientific impact. In this study, scientific cooperation is 
analyzed over the last 25 years. The worldwide scientific output as 
indexed in the citation indexes and that of a selected set of and 
countries is analyzed through distinguishing various types of scientific 
output, and impact measures are determined. In the study we focus on a 
number of country's for which we have observed strong changes in the 
patterns of their scientific output. The study shows the importance of the 
analysis of the composition of the scientific output of a country, and the 
role single address and first-authored publications play in applications 
of bibliometric data in research assessment processes on the national 
level. 
Addresses: Leiden Univ, CWTS Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, Leiden, NL-2300 RB 
Netherlands. 

Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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