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In search of a “Non-citation index” indicator for scientific activity assessment in less developed countries. Case study of Croatia/Yugoslavia

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“Unquestionably, there has been no one like Einstein in physics in this century, but one has to reflect on how easily Einstein might have been lost, particularly if he had been born in a developing country.”

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The meaning of the term the intellectual “island effect” which was introduced byArunachalam et al. is broadened as to characterize the status of science on the periphery in general. A practical solution is proposed, based on bibliometric data of the research output and relying on two criteria: the extent of coverage by world significant secondary literature and the extent of scatter of that literature. Reliability of the publication data retrieved from the Citation Indexes is discussed; a measure is offered to assess the adequacy of the Citation Indexes as the data sources.

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    Nevenka Pravdić, Alena Aganović-Boras & Dubravka Kritovac

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From C. M. KINNON, (Ed.)The Impact of Modern Scientific Ideas on Society Reidel/UNESCO, 1981, p. 29.

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Pravdić, N., Aganović-Boras, A. & Kritovac, D. In search of a “Non-citation index” indicator for scientific activity assessment in less developed countries. Case study of Croatia/Yugoslavia. Scientometrics 14, 111–125 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02020246

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