Scientometric approach of productivity in scholarly economics and business

Abstract

Some scientometric studies attempt to explain the factors affecting a country's scientific output, which is usually measured by proxy variables such as the number of articles and citations in internationally-renowned journals. This paper highlights the main drivers for scientific output in economics and business, namely, financing of education and research, population size, the number of scholarly journals and English as the official language. We use multiple OLS regressions and data provided by Web of Knowledge and the World Bank covering 56 nations. The study also highlights the relationship between scientific output and the efficiency in using the research funding. The rankings of sample countries show that there is a learning process at national level, the output being doubled by efficiency.

Research on sharing economy: why are some articles more cited than others?

“…The sharing economy is not very different from other academic fields in geographical terms. Our data confirm the predominance the United States and some Asian countries, just as do studies on different research fields that highlight North America and Asia (in the last decades) as the most popular regions to retrieve information (Chatha et al, 2018;Dragos et al, 2014). This result is also similar to that of Arcidiacono et al (2018) who found an increasing evolution in the number of papers on sharing economy, mainly in an Anglo-American context.…”

“…Systematic reviews frequently include a geographic analysis which includes data such as the location of the journals publishing on a specific topic, the region where the data were collected, or an author's country of affiliation (Niñerola et al, 2019). Although the findings vary depending on the topic under research, it is quite frequent that most of the papers considered were written in Anglophone countries, and especially in North America, although the last few decades have seen an increasing number of research studies originating in Asia (Chatha, Butt, Jajja, & Arshad, 2018;Dragos, Dinu, Pop, & Dabija, 2014).…”

From Basic Research to Competitiveness: An Econometric Analysis of the Global Pharmaceutical Sector

“…In addition, it has also been claimed that the emphasis on social components in the general mainstream of enterprise innovation activity is one of the strongest reasons for its successful functioning and development [11,12]. There is a considerable debate on measuring the efficiency of monetary resource allocation on research and development (RD) [13][14][15]. Table 1 offers an overview of the most important articles on this topic, showing the historic development of the analysis of this problem.…”

“…Data on academic publications have been collected with the help of the Web of Science™ (hereinafter: WoS) system of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson Reuters). There are some arguments for using its most important competitor, Scopus, of Reed Elsevier [15,65,66]; however, based on the number of papers and citations, largely independent of the field of science, an extremely high correlation between the "performance" of these two databases has been proven. The rigorous, systematic analysis of academic publications began only a few decades ago [67], but the publication and patent data can offer a longer time series.…”

“…The increasing significance of the "green chemistry" approach [10][11][12] in the pharmaceutical industry is a direct contribution to the decreasing carbon footprint [13], responsible production and consumption, and mitigation of climate change. The introduction of biodegradable materials [14] and other environmentally sustainable packages [15,16] help to preserve lifeforms that exist both below the water and on land. As a summary, it can be stated that the development of the pharmaceutical industry is a key factor to achieve the sustainable development goals of the UN [17].…”