The Publication Success of 102 Nations in Scopus and the Performance of Their Scopus-Indexed Journals

被引：30

作者：

Erfanmanesh M. ^{[1
]}

Tahira M. ^{[2
]}

Abrizah A. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

[2] University of Education, College Road, Township, Lahore

[3] Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

[4] Malaysian Citation Centre, Ministry of Higher Education, Putrajaya

来源：

Publishing Research Quarterly | 2017年 / 33卷 / 4期

关键词：

Journal performance; Publication success; Scholarly publications; Scopus-indexed journals;

D O I：

10.1007/s12109-017-9540-5

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摘要：

Over the years, the number of journals indexed in Scopus has increased, although it varies significantly between countries. The increasing proportion of international journals of a country provides new venues for papers from that country to be seen by other researchers worldwide. In this work, we evaluate the relationship of a country’s scientific performance or publication success with both its journals’ quantity and quality. The specific objective of the study is to identify the relationship between the country’s publication success and the quantity and quality of those country’s journals indexed in Scopus during 2005–2014. The publication success of 102 individual countries, measured by their scientific productivity, impact and collaboration indicators, the quantity of country’s Scopus-indexed journals in 2014 (a total of 22,581 journals) as well as the quantity of its journals were investigated. Scopus-indexed journals are predominantly from Western Europe (48.9%) and North America (27.7%), with the United States and the United Kingdom dominate with a total 51%. The contribution from the peripheral countries is comparatively small, however there are a good number of contributions from the South-East Asian countries. Estonia is the fastest growing country in terms of having indexed journals in Scopus, following by Iran and Malaysia. Among the studied indices, it was found that publication success (total publications and total citations) of 102 countries are strongly correlated with quantity (number of indexed journals and number of documents published in indexed journals) and quality (citations per paper, SJR, h-index, CiteScore and SNIP) indicators of country’s journals. We can conclude that the scientific productivity of a country depend critically on the number of journals indexed from that country in citation databases. The study provides a context with which the relative success of publications can be assessed, yielding new insights into the scientific impact of individual countries and the performance of journals that they published. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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页码：421 / 432

页数：11

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