World science in the eighties. National performances in publication output and citation impact, 1985–1989versus 1980–1984 part I. All science fields combined, physics, and chemistry

Countries positioning in open access journals system: An investigation of citation distribution patterns

“…Canada, France, UK, and USA, traditionally known as scientific leaders (see e.g. [BRAUN & AL., 1994A;1994B;MAY, 1997;KING, 2004]), are found to have a behavior far from expected. Although, they are revealed to stand out in Engineering & Material Sciences, they fail to position on the top in the whole OA system or in the two other disciplines.…”

“…Exploring the world's countries scientific contributions, they report on the expected and observed levels of the countries' citation performance for the periods 1978-1980, 1981-1985and 1980(see e.g. [BRAUN & AL., 19851987;1988A;1988B;1988C;1993;1994A;1994B;). Some of the global studies are specifically directed towards the investigation of inequalities in citation distribution in the science system using different methods and at different levels of aggregation.…”

“…Advanced countries followed by proficient countries gain the lion share of OA articles, as is the case in the global science system, too (see e.g. BRAUN & AL., 1994A;1994B;MAY, 1997;KING, 2004]). Countries approach to contributing to the OAJs: In order to investigate the publication strategy of the scientific groups regarding the OAJs, we tried to answer two questions: Do the groups show more tendency towards these journals compared to the past?…”

The operationalization of “fields” as WoS subject categories (WCs) in evaluative bibliometrics: The cases of “library and information science” and “science & technology studies”

“…Schubert, Glänzel, and Braun (; cf. Braun et al., ) already noted that “the field/subfield classification of papers is a neuralgic point of all kind of scientometric evaluations” (p. 7). They used the classification system of Computer Horizons Inc. (CHI) that is still current for the Science and Engineering Indicators of the National Science Board of the USA (National Science Board, ).…”

International earth science literature from Turkey — 1970–2005: Trends and possible causes

“…Scientometrics 74 (2008) In the 1980's Turkey lagged behind Egypt in terms of scientific output among Islamic countries [1]; in the year 2005 the number of SCI publications from Turkey constituted over 40% of the combined SCI publication output of 37 Islamic countries, followed by Iran (13%) and Egypt (8%). The number of papers in the SCI journals was 464 in 1983 with the 41st position in the ranking of countries, it increased to 13,290 in 2005 with ranking 19 th.…”