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A note on the utility of international publication data

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This note focuses on a possible limitation of international publication data as a measure of research activity. It is argued that differences in the ‘pressure’ and/or ‘capacity’ to publish may exist between countries which would necessitate the standardization of publication data on a country basis. The argument is supported by statistical tests performed on data recently utilized to measure agricultural scientific research activity.

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  1. Recent studies in science which utilize publication data include F. NARIN, M. P. CARPENTER, National Publication and Citation Comparisons,Journal of American Society for Information Service, 26 (1975), 80–93, and J. D. FRAME, F. NARIN, M. P. CARPENTER, The distribution of World Science,Social Studies of Science, 7 (1977) 501–16.

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  2. The pioneering work in this regard is R. E. EVENSON and Y. KISLEV, Research Productivity in Wheat and Maize,Journal of Political Economy, 81 (1973) 1309–29.

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  5. op. cit., Boyce, Evenson,, 96. Similar limitations are also discussed by NARIN and CARPENTER, op. cit, 84.

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  9. This variable is used as a measure of ‘related’ and ‘supporting’ scientific knowledge in each country. EVENSON, KISLEV,Agricultural Research and Productivity, 30.

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Hastings, T. A note on the utility of international publication data. Scientometrics 3, 389–396 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017576

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