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Measuring international knowledge flows and scholarly impact of scientific research

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We introduce a new quantitative measure of international scholarly impact of countries by using bibliometric techniques based on publication and citation data. We present a case study to illustrate the use of our proposed measure in the subject area Energy during 1996–2009. We also present geographical maps to visualize knowledge flows among countries. Finally, using correlation analysis between publication output and international scholarly impact, we study the explanatory power of the applied measure.

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  1. Elsevier’s Scopus citation database (http://www.scopus.com/) is used as data source. In Scopus, subject categories are pre-assigned to all journal articles and conference papers based on the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC). Using ASJC, we procured 358,661 publications (journal articles, reviews and conference papers) classified as Energy(all) from the Scopus database during the time period 1996–2009.

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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to Prof. Henk Moed and Prof. Yuan Sun who provided their useful comments on early stage of this research.

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  1. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand

    Saeed-Ul Hassan

  2. United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), Casa Silva Mendes, Est. Do Engenheiro Trigo No. 4, P.O. Box 3058, Macau, China

    Peter Haddawy

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Table 3 Papers published by the United States during 1996–2009 in the subject area Energy
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Table 4 The ISISR in a given year Y and papers published by the selected countries between 1996 and a given year Y in the subject area Energy
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Table 5 Int’l citations received by the selected countries in a given year Y to the papers published during 1996 and Y in the subject area Energy
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Hassan, SU., Haddawy, P. Measuring international knowledge flows and scholarly impact of scientific research. Scientometrics 94, 163–179 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0786-6

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