Bibliometric analysis of publications from North Korea indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection from 1988 to 2016

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Section: Introductioncontrasting

confidence: 59%

“…The same bibliometric parameters were analyzed. Word clouds were built using the same methods that were used in the previous study [1], including separate word clouds for all articles and the subset of articles with only North Korean authors. No chronological comparison was conducted.…”

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confidence: 99%

Update: Bibliometric analysis of publications from North Korea indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection from 1978 to July 2018

Jeong

Huh

2018

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“…This is also the case with academic activities, as we can see from the very small number of papers from North Korea published in international journals. Recently, Jeong and Huh performed the first extensive bibliometric analysis of North Korean publications in all academic disciplines indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the last forty years [1,2]. They also performed a bibliometric and content analysis of medical articles in the PubMed database published by North Korean authors during the last twenty years [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

Bibliographic and content analysis of physics papers from North Korea indexed in the Scopus from 2005 to 2018

Kim

Chung

2019

It aimed at assessing the current status of physics research in North Korea through a bibliographic and content analysis of the physics papers from North Korea indexed in the Scopus from 2005 to 2018. Methods: The Scopus was searched on January 18, 2019 by using the search option ' Affiliation city' with "Pyongyang OR Chongjin OR Hamhung OR Sariwon OR Wonsan OR Kimchaek" as the city name and 171 physics papers from North Korea written in English were identified. By performing supplementary searches based on the author names and the references, 46 papers belonging to physics were added and the total of 217 papers were identified. They were classified by publication year, co-authors' country, institution, subfield, journal and author. Representative North Korean physicists and the active subfields of physics were identified. Results: The number of physics papers from North Korea has been growing rapidly in the recent years. Physics research activities in North Korea were extremely centralized in its capital, Pyongyang, where all major research institutions were located. Major research areas included condensed matter physics, optics and high energy physics and the large majority of papers were theoretical ones. From a bibliographic and content analysis, sixteen representative or notable physicists in North Korea were identified. Conclusion: It appears that the North Korean government is actively encouraging researchers to publish more papers in international journals. There is a strong growth potential in physics research in North Korea. In order to achieve balanced development in physics, it is an important task to build competitive experimental groups.

“…There have been mentions of North Korea's position and research areas in specific academic fields. However, very few studies have examined research articles published by North Korean researchers with bibliometric analysis [2][3][4]. Bibliometric analysis is a research method that helps to clarify research trends and specific research areas within a particular academic field.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, bibliometric research about North Korea has some challenges due to the small number of published articles and the misclassification of various names for South Korea and North Korea [2]. As North Korea may be known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea, DPRK, or DPR Korea, the author searched for "North Korea, " "DPR Korea, " and "North Korea" in the address field on the Web of Science [3]. Jeong and Huh [4]'s study result showed that Kim Il Sung University researchers had published the most articles and their main areas of research were physics, mathematics, materials science, chemistry, and engineering.…”

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confidence: 99%

Network analysis of scientific collaboration in North Korea

Choi¹,

Choi²,

Kim³

2019

Purpose: Although North Korea invests in scientific research, few selected research results are published to international journals. However, the latest peaceful political developments around North Korea have increased concerns about how they will support international scientific cooperation. This study aims to analyze the scientific collaboration and intellectual structure of North Korean researchers. Methods: We conducted a co-word analysis with author keywords and author names using the Web of Science records for 1976-2018 to observe the changes in research trends in North Korea. The structure of the median centrality of words and the parallel nearest neighbor clustering methods were used to visualize the results. Results: The analysis of 55 final keywords confirms that the corresponding network is composed of 17 sub-clusters under four areas. As a result of the investigation of 56 final author names, the corresponding network is composed of 15 sub-clusters under four areas. Conclusion: As more accurate information is needed about collaboration partners to ensure successful cooperation, this analysis result can support getting an overview of North Korea's research community and their research network.