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

Fri Dec 13 15:21:50 EST 2013

Dear Andrea
Thank you for your words and these papers.
Greetings from Granada

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Victor Herrero <victorherrero at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>
>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
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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
>>
>>
>> * The Publish or Perish Book: Your guide to effective and responsible
>> citation analysis*
>> *http://www.harzing.com/popbook.htm* <http://www.harzing.com/popbook.htm>
>>
>> *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**
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>> * CSIC/CCHS/IPP, SCImago Group, Madrid, Spain
>> ** University Granada, SCImago-UGR, Granada, Spain
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>>     Published: December 09, 2013
>>     DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083222
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>>  final version:
>> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0083222
>>
>>
>> ** apologies for cross-postings
>>
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>> Víctor Herrero-Solana
>> victorhs at ugr.es
>> www.ugr.es/~victorhs <http://www.ugr.es/%7Evictorhs>
>> scholar.google.com/citations?user=OKIleUEAAAAJ
>> orcid.org/0000-0003-1142-5074
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