Third World Countries (TWC) research publications by disciplines: A country-by-country citation analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-266

  Osareh, Farideh ^a,b   Wilson, Concepción S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

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EID: 0009285490     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02458529     Document Type: Article

References (18)

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8. A detailed explanation of the data collection procedures and methodology can be obtained from the following PhD dissertation: F. OSAREH, Evaluation and Measurement of Third World Countries' Research Publications: A Citation and Country-by-Country Citation Study. PhD Dissertation. Sydney, NSW, Australia, University of New South Wales, School of Information, Library and Archive Studies, 1996.
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11. For aggregating the 128 subfields to seven major fields, the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) 15th ed. 1992 was used as a guide to find out which subfield belonged to which ISI scientific field. The subject fields of the documents which were published in a multidisciplinary journal were inspected and added to the appropriate field in each file for each country.
12. Calculations for observed and expected rates are based on Small & Garfield, 1985, p. 151. See reference in footnote [10] above.
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16. Reasons for exclusion of India were articulated in the paper by Osareh & Wilson (1995). See Ref. 6 above.
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18. In this study, the high country self-citing reported refers only to publications which are in internationally refereed journals and therefore are indexed by the Science Citation Index as source publications; these publications do not include 'domestic' journals.