Naslov
Analysis of Scientific Productivity in Croatia according to the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index for the Period 1980-1995

Autori
Klaić, Branimir

Izvornik
Croatian medical journal (0353-9504) 38 (1997), 2; 88-98

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Sažetak
Aim. A total of 8, 825 articles, notes, and letters published by scientists affiliated with research institutions within the Republic of Croatia, in journals covered by the Science Citation Index (SCI), the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), or the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), in the years 1980 - 1996, was analyzed considering the number of publications and cumulative partial authorship per individual scientist and research institution. Method. To account for differences in the size of the readership for a particular journal, its impact factor was standardized by multiplying with the ratio of the average numbers of quotations per article for the respective scientific subfield and all journals covered by the SCI. Results. Out of 8, 994 Croatian scientists, the productivity of 792 was at or above the world average, considering the number of papers and/or cumulative partial authorship. Based on average productivity and standardized impact factors for their scientific subfields, the most successful 2.5% (228 individuals) of the scientists affiliated with Croatian institutions were identified. Almost half of the 792 world class scientists were active in the main fields of Chemistry and Physics, even though chemists and physicists comprise a mere 10% of all the scientists in the country. Of those 792 scientists, 34% were affiliated with the Ruđer Bošković Institute and about 10% each with the Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics and with the School of Medicine of the University of Zagreb. Conclusion. There are several centers of scientific exellence in the Republic of Croatia: the Institute of Physics, the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, and the Institute of Medical Research and Occupational Medicine, all with a scientific productivity above the world average. Chemists and physicists published more than 45% of the Croatian scientific output, and have a scientific productivity about 50% above the world average. Almost half of the Croatian scientists, did not publish any paper in the world-relevant scientific literature, during the 1980-1995 period. Croatian science is chronically underfunded.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kemija

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