[Asis-l] [SIGMETRICS] Publication and citation counts

[Albert Henderson]

on Thu, 6 Feb 2003 Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
 
> Is there anyone who can provide me data on the number
> of papers published
> from different countries yearwise and the number of
> citations received by
> these papers? As an example, say India published
> 12,000 papers in 1999 and
> these 12,000 papers were collectively cited 8,000
> times till the end of
> 2001. ISI, Philadelphia, can provide such data from
> its Science Citation
> Index (or now web of Science/ Web of Knowledge) files.
> Are such data
> actually available in the public domain?

	The U.S. National Science Board includes
	figures of that nature in the appendix 
	tables [5-41 etc.] of SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 
	INDICATORS. The URL is:

        http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/start.htm

	One major criticism of their samples
	seems to be that, as output of R&D
	activity, it lags far behind such input
	figures as money and labor. Another,
	which has appeared in S&EI, questions
	why US authors cite US sources 
	disproportionately in relation to the
	rest of the world. Is it insularity of
	the authors or the data?	

	Best wishes,

Albert Henderson
Former Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
<70244.1532 at compuserve.com>