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Innovative research and first-class higher education? Some general remarks from a librarian Henryk Hollender Lazarski University. The world : concentration of scientific research and technological innovation. Tool for evaluation : papers ( output , citations ) and patents
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Innovative research and first-class higher education? Some general remarks from a librarian Henryk Hollender Lazarski University
Theworld: concentration of scientific research and technologicalinnovation • Tool for evaluation: papers (output, citations) and patents • Disclaimer: big data givesroughestimation • A global study 1981-2008 [1]: papers and patentsconcentratedin USA, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and France • Papers less concentratedthanpatents. Conclusion: technologicalinnovationmoreconcentratedthanreasearchimpact? svetlana@library.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
More on spatial and temporalfactors of concentration • Papers and patents less concentratedifthe data fromthe USA excluded • Somehigh-productivitycountriesare far from listing because of theirsmallsize • China, Taiwan and Korea followingclosely: China mostlyinpapers, Taiwan and Korea inpatents • USA predominanceslowlydecreasing, but more so inpapersthaninpatents. Again: link betweenresearchproductivity and innovationis less directthat we mightthink
Focus on Europe • Sorry, no freshwork (but raw data availableinEssential Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters) • A studycovering 1994-2004 [2]: European Union bio-medresearchproducticvity = 76% productivity of the USA (havingregard to thenumber of population) • Theissue of 2004: ifnew EU countriesare to be includedinthecalculation, EU bio-medresearchproductivity = 66% productivity of the USA • Lower scorewitheachsubsequent EU enlargement? Sorry, no freshestimation but data available: Essential Science Indicators (Thomson Reuters), SCImagoJournal and Country Rank (Scopus)
http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php, 1996-2013 Scimago country
Anotherstudy [3]: papers per 100000 inhabitants, 2002-2013 [3] • Switzerland, 2427 • Sweden, 2019 • Denmark, 1855 • Finland, 1743 • Norway, 1638 • Netherlands, 1587 • Israel, 1497 • Australia, 1469 • … 25. Hungary 26. Poland … • Russia … 33. China Small countries with good research policy
Patterns for groups of countries [3] • Social Sciences: English-speaking, Netherlands, Israel. • Balanced, slightdominance of Physical Science, strongdisadvantage for Social Science: France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, India • More balanced: German speaking, Finland, Sweden, Denmark; Ireland, Belgium • Engineering Science: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China • Physical Science: Russia and Ukraine
Quantityinstead of quality? A view on Poland • 1200 or more scholarly journals; lots of lowly-cited research • Most of secondary journals: poor circulation, little chance to receive citation, but a publishing opportunity for authors who do not go to highly impactful journals. • Will they turn out to be the kindergarten for highly cited authors?
Tasks for thelibrarianand theuniversitypress • We cannot affect impact, we can affect visibility/readership: publish in English with a real online version (open access or subscription-based) AND try to get to major bibliographic services • What best makes information circulate? • Traditional bibliography • Digital repositories repeating documents already published • Discovery and delivery tools (Primo, EDS, Summon etc.) • Academia.edu • Informal contacts among scholars
Correcting the general view • Research output in many countries may be missing from global bibliographic control • Science is only global? Not true! „Local research” may result in inspiring works, helping adopt new theories and bridging the gap between innovative and outdated scholarship. • What will students read next to expensive handbooks, usually translated? For instance economics: we need shorter attractive books, cases, readable journal articles • BazEkon: example of a bibliographic database which • Provides full text wherever possible • Lists references from the article • Lists citations received by the article • User-friendly, teaches information literacy!
My bibliography • [1] Mu-Hsuan Huang, Han-Wen Chang, Dar-Zen Chen: The trend of concentrationin scientific research and technologicalinnovation: a reduction of thepredominant role of the U.S. inworldresearch & technology, Journal of Informatics 6 (2012) p. 457-468 • [2] E. Soteriades, M. Falagas: Comparison of amount of biomedicalresearchoriginatingfromtheEuropean Union and the United States, British MedicalJournal 2005, 331, p. 192-194 • [3] A.-W. Harzing, A. Giroud: Thecompetitiveadvantage of nations: an application to academia, Journal of Informetrics, 2014, 8.1, p. 29-42.
Thank you for your attention! h.hollender@lazarski.edu.pl