Slovenian Science in Scopus
Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez
Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos - CSIC.
SCImago Research Group.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics. University of Ljubljana,
October 2010.
Structure of the presentation
1. SCImago Research Group. Main projects
2. Data Source
3. Slovenia in the national, regional and
international context
4. Some recommendations
Examples for the Scientific
Domain of Slovenia
Data source
Peer Reviewed (±30000)*
ISI-WOS (±9000)
Atlas of Science
SCOPUS (±18000)
SJR and SIR
(*) Source: UlrichsWeb
Slovenia in the international
context
World Country Rank (I)
World Country Rank (II)
1996-2008
Slovenia in the regional context
Eastern Europe Countries Ranking - Output
Data about Slovenian Output
4
0,2
58,33%
0,18
3,5
0,16
3
0,14
71,43%
2,5
% region
2
0,1
0,08
1,5
% world
0,12
0,06
1
% Region
0,04
% World
0,5
0,02
0
0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Av. Growth
165,00
162,82
34,71
71,43
58,33
Cites per Document vs. External Cites
per Document
2,44
2,511
Normalized Impact Factor
Publication profile by discipline
Subject fields distribution (Slovenia, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia)
Strenghts and weakness
-Output
-Activity Index
-Attractivity Index
-Normalized Impact Factor
Activity and Attractivity index
The percentage of the number of documents in a given field according to all
documents in a given country
• ACI =
The percentage of the number of documents in a given field according to all
documents in the world
Activity Index measures the thematic specialisation
The percentage of the number of citations in a given field according to all citations in
a given country
• ATI =
The percentage of the number of citations in a given field according to all citations in
the world
Attractivity Index measures the capacity to attract citations
Attractivity index, Activity Index and Output
3
MATH
500 documents
2,5
ENER
PHY
MAT
attractivity index
CENG
2
CHEM
ENG
COMP
1,5
ENV
DEN
HEAL
MED
BUS
VET
EAR
DEC
ECO
NUR
GEN
PSY
AGR
BIO
IMMU
1
PHAR
SOC
0,5
ART
NEU
0
-0,90
-0,70
-0,50
-0,30
activity index
-0,10
0,10
0,30
Output vs. Visibility (Subject Areas)
Output vs. Visibility (Subject Categories)
Patterns of publication
Where is the Slovenian science published?
Journal Publisher Country (and visibility)
Slovenian Journals in Scopus
Evidences
Publication Patterns
Patterns of Collaboration
Collaboration Patterns
Types of Collaboration per Fields
Main partners (all fields)
International Collaboration in Social Sciences
Institutional Collaboration
What’s about University of Ljubljana?
Thematic Distribution – University of Ljubljana
Authors
Recommendations (I)
•
To work with the publishers of the journals to obtain that
they improve their positions in the international databases
and the access to them
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•
To decrease Self citation
To publish in Englis language
To increase International Collaboration
To improve the Quality of the contents (scientific and editorial board)
To create, (if it does not exist) a support unit to help
scientits in scientific publication:
– To produce annual reports of the publication patterns
in each institution to improve the communications
among researchers and the knowlegde of the
decisions makers.
– To give information about possible journals to
publish.
– To help the researchers to prepare the papers
according to international standards of scientific
journals (translation, style, norms and format of
documents)
Recommendations (II)
•
Promotion of the national and international collaboration respecting
the specific average number of co-authors in each discipline.
•
To encourage balance quality in the different scientific areas by the
international collaboration.
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Which are the countries that are the best to collaborate with?
Which are such institutions?
Which are such research groups?
To increase the number of researchers at international level
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Mobility of researchers
To encourage the Slovenian researchers that work in the other countries to work in
Slovenia
To encourage foreign researchers to collaborate to Slovenian ones by projects or grants
Recommendations (III)
•
The visibility of the Slovenian results of research has to became a
priority at national and institutional level:
– To develop and to encourage the use of institutional repositories for
the researchers. Formal adhesion to the declarations of Berlin and
Budapest
– Creation of national repositories. Diffusion in Google Scholar and other
international diffusers of the world
– Approval of a protocol for the inclusion of works related to the
concession of incentives.
– To apply all possible services for the international visibility of Slovenian
research
– To improve the website of institutions in order to obtain a greater
visibility of the Slovenian research in the world.
Thank you for your attention
Keep on working…
Slovenian Science in Scopus
Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez
Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos - CSIC.
SCImago Research Group.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics. University of Ljubljana,
October 2010.