(18 Mar 2021) In 2020, Thailand was third, after China and Vietnam, on Nature Index’s list of rising countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region…From an even lower base, Indonesia and Vietnam rank fourth and fifth on the APAC rising countries list. Malaysia, with more than 2,200 researchers per million people — second only to Singapore, which has 6,730…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (8 Feb 2021) I presented existing journal quality metrics in Ruth’s Rankings 46 Part 1. JCR is adding “Early Access” documents to its 2021 calculations (Quaderi, McVeigh). Before writing about this and other updates from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus, I realized I needed to know more about the make-up of the…
(21 Oct 2020) Imagine you are asked by a senior University administrator how much of your University’s output is currently made open access? Or if you wish to track if your researchers are complying with funder requirements. Wouldn’t it be nice to have auto-updating dashboards like this for the low price of free? See…
(7 Oct 2020) Indonesia is a world leader in the number of free-to-read published research journals. Journals published with open access (OA) licenses are available to read for free and can be legally redistributed. With the license, anyone can get the full article and all supporting documents for free because the author or research institute already bears the cost of…
The South Asian country is now fourth in the world for science productivity but experts say quality issues remain (22 Oct 2020) India’s research output has overtaken Germany’s for the first time and is fast catching up to the UK’s, but questions remain on how quickly the country can make progress on research quality. Figures…
(9 Apr 2020) The COVID-19 crisis is leading to a “sea change” in the way that researchers are collating and analysing research in a bid to keep up with the “phenomenal” growth in scholarship on the topic, experts have suggested. According to one search portal for coronavirus research, as of 3 April more than 6,000 papers,…
(27 December 2019) Emerging economies showed some of the largest increases in research output in 2018, according to estimates from the publishing-services company Clarivate Analytics. Pakistan and Egypt topped the list in percentage terms, with rises of 21% and 15.9%, respectively. China’s publications rose by about 15%, and India, Brazil, Mexico and Iran all saw…