The scientific impact of nations: journal placement and citation performance.

ABSTRACT: International collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the advancement of science. To gain a more precise understanding of how factors such as international collaboration influence publication success, we divide publication success into two categories: journal placement and citation performance. Analyzing all papers published between 1996 and 2012 in eight disciplines, we find that those with more countries in their affiliations performed better in both categories. Furthermore, specific countries vary in their effects both individually and in combination. Finally, we look at the relationship between national output (in papers published) and input (in citations received) over the 17 years, expanding upon prior depictions by also plotting an expected proportion of citations based

SUBMITTER: Smith MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4189927 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature