Worldwide Topology of the Scientific Subject Profile: A Macro Approach in the Country Level - final version

[Victor Herrero]

Dear Anne-Wil
Thank you very much for your recommendation.
Your paper is very interesting and will be useful for our ongoing research.
Greetings from Granada

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Anne-Wil Harzing <anne-wil at harzing.com>wrote:

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> Thanks Victor,
>
> We just published a paper with a very similar theme in Journal of
> Informetrics. It is available for free until the end of January through
> this link:
>
> *http://elsarticle.com/18ATXK0
> <http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/mCGPFMCF/qU7YOMCF/uKCD443F/xY34YNCF/cutf%2D8>*
>
> The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia
>
>    - Anne-Wil Harzing<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000849#>
>    a<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000849#aff0005>
>    ,
>    - Axèle Giroud<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000849#>
>    b<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157713000849#aff0010>
>    ,
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>    - a University of Melbourne, Department of Management and Marketing,
>    Parkville Campus, Victoria 3010, Australia
>    - b Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB,
>    UK
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>  Abstract
>
> Within the field of bibliometrics, there is sustained interest in how
> nations “compete” in terms of academic disciplines, and what determinants
> explain why countries may have a specific advantage in one discipline over
> another. However, this literature has not, to date, presented a
> comprehensive structured model that could be used in the interpretation of
> a country's research profile and academic output. In this paper, we use
> frameworks from international business and economics to present such a
> model.
>
> Our study makes four major contributions. First, we include a very wide
> range of countries and disciplines, explicitly including the Social
> Sciences, which unfortunately are excluded in most bibliometrics studies.
> Second, we apply theories of revealed comparative advantage and the
> competitive advantage of nations to academic disciplines. Third, we cluster
> our 34 countries into five different groups that have distinct combinations
> of revealed comparative advantage in five major disciplines. Finally, based
> on our empirical work and prior literature, we present an academic diamond
> that details factors likely to explain a country's research profile and
> competitiveness in certain disciplines.
>     Best wishes,
> Anne-Wil
>
>
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>
> *Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing*
> Professor of International Management
> Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
> website: www.harzing.com, email: anne at harzing.com
>
>
>      On 13/12/2013 10:08, Victor Herrero wrote:
>
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>   Worldwide Topology of the Scientific Subject Profile: A Macro Approach
> in the Country Level
>
> Abstract
>
> Background
> Models for the production of knowledge and systems of innovation and
> science are key elements for characterizing a country in view of its
> scientific thematic profile. With regard to scientific output and
> publication in journals of international visibility, the countries of the
> world may be classified into three main groups according to their thematic
> bias.
>
> Methodology/Principal Findings
> This paper aims to classify the countries of the world in several broad
> groups, described in terms of behavioural models that attempt to sum up the
> characteristics of their systems of knowledge and innovation. We perceive
> three clusters in our analysis: 1) the biomedical cluster, 2) the basic
> science & engineering cluster, and 3) the agricultural cluster. The
> countries are conceptually associated with the clusters via Principal
> Component Analysis (PCA), and a Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) map with all
> the countries is presented.
>
> Conclusions/Significance
> As we have seen, insofar as scientific output and publication in journals
> of international visibility is concerned, the countries of the world may be
> classified into three main groups according to their thematic profile.
> These groups can be described in terms of behavioral models that attempt to
> sum up the characteristics of their systems of knowledge and innovation.
>
>  Félix Moya-Anegón* & Víctor Herrero-Solana**
>
> * CSIC/CCHS/IPP, SCImago Group, Madrid, Spain
> ** University Granada, SCImago-UGR, Granada, Spain
>
>     Published: December 09, 2013
>     DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083222
>
>  final version:
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0083222
>
>
> ** apologies for cross-postings
>
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