Paper Info
Title
Unseen science? Representation of BRICs in global science
Abstract
A survey of scientific periodical publications (or venues-as distinct from articles) from BRIC country practitioners counted more than 15,000 national publications. Data collected from and about Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC countries) show that 495 venues, or about 3%, are listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded漏 (SCIE漏) in 2010. Contrary to our expectation of under-representation overall and coverage limitation of SCIE, the average percentage of SCIE-listed venues for the BRICs is about the same as that for advanced countries. China has the lowest representation of national venues in SCIE at 2% of all publications; Russia has the highest at about 8%. India has about 6% of venues in SCIE; Brazil has about 4%. In other words, SCIE includes about the same percentage of high quality science from these four countries as for North America and Europe, meaning that these countries are not under-represented in SCIE. Moreover, the number of national venues available as outlets suggests that national scientists in these countries have good access to publications and venues. Some of the BRIC national publications are difficult to "see" at the global level because of language barriers, diverse publication formats, and lack of digitization. Other national differences represent historical traditions surrounding publication.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11192-011-0481-z
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Global science,BRICs,Open access,Developing countries,National comparisons
Science Citation Index,Language barrier,Economic growth,Digitization,Computer science,China,Developing country,Developed country,BRIC,Publication Formats
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
90
3
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.88
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Caroline S. Wagner140926.07
Shing Kit Wong2110.88