Slovenian Science in Scopus

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez

Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos - CSIC. SCImago Research Group.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics. University of Ljubljana, October 2010.

Structure of the presentation

1. SCImago Research Group. Main projects

2. Data Source

3. Slovenia in the national, regional and international context

4. Some recommendations

http://www.scimago.es/

Examples for the Scientific Domain of Slovenia

Peer Reviewed (±30000)*

ISI-WOS (±9000)

SCOPUS (±18000)

Data source

(*) Source: UlrichsWeb

Atlas of Science

SJR and SIR

Slovenia in the international context

World Country Rank (I)

World Country Rank (II) 1996-2008

Slovenia in the regional context

Eastern Europe Countries Ranking - Output

Data about Slovenian Output

Av. Growth 165,00 162,82 34,71 71,43 58,33

0

0,02

0,04

0,06

0,08

0,1

0,12

0,14

0,16

0,18

0,2

0

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5

3

3,5

4

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

% Region % World

% re

gion

% w

orld

58,33%

71,43%

Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document

2,44

2,511

Normalized Impact Factor

Publication profile by discipline

Subject fields distribution (Slovenia, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia)

Strenghts and weakness

-Output

-Activity Index

-Attractivity Index

-Normalized Impact Factor

Activity and Attractivity index

The percentage of the number of documents in a given field according to all documents in a given country

• ACI =The percentage of the number of documents in a given field according to all documents in the

world

Activity Index measures the thematic specialisation

The percentage of the number of citations in a given field according to all citations in a given country

• ATI =The percentage of the number of citations in a given field according to all citations

in the world

Attractivity Index measures the capacity to attract citations

Attractivity index, Activity Index and Output

MED

ENG

PHY

CHEM

BIO

MAT

COMP

AGR

MATH

SOC

ENV

CENG

PHAR

EARIMMU

BUS

ENER

ART

VET

NEU

ECO PSY

DEC

HEAL

GEN

DEN

NUR

0

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5

3

-0,90 -0,70 -0,50 -0,30 -0,10 0,10 0,30

attr

acti

vity

in

dex

activity index

500 documents

Output vs. Visibility (Subject Areas)

Output vs. Visibility (Subject Categories)

Patterns of publication

Where is the Slovenian science published?

Journal Publisher Country (and visibility)

Slovenian Journals in Scopus

Evidences

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=27908&tip=sid&clean=0

Publication Patterns

Patterns of Collaboration

Collaboration Patterns

Types of Collaboration per Fields

Main partners (all fields)

International Collaboration in Social Sciences

Institutional Collaboration

What’s about University of Ljubljana?

http://www.scimagoir.com/inestable08/analyze.php?id1=7950

Thematic Distribution – University of Ljubljana

Authors

Recommendations (I)• To work with the publishers of the journals to obtain that they

improve their positions in the international databases and the access to them

– To decrease Self citation

– To publish in Englis language

– To increase International Collaboration

– To improve the Quality of the contents (scientific and editorial board)

• To create, (if it does not exist) a support unit to help scientits in scientific publication:– To produce annual reports of the publication patterns in each

institution to improve the communications among researchers and the knowlegde of the decisions makers.

– To give information about possible journals to publish. – To help the researchers to prepare the papers according to

international standards of scientific journals (translation, style, norms and format of documents)

Recommendations (II)

• Promotion of the national and international collaboration respecting the specific average number of co-authors in each discipline.

• To encourage balance quality in the different scientific areas by the international collaboration.– Which are the countries that are the best to collaborate with?– Which are such institutions?– Which are such research groups?

• To increase the number of researchers at international level– Mobility of researchers– To encourage the Slovenian researchers that work in the other countries to work in

Slovenia– To encourage foreign researchers to collaborate to Slovenian ones by projects or grants

Recommendations (III)• The visibility of the Slovenian results of research has to became a

priority at national and institutional level:

– To develop and to encourage the use of institutional repositories for the researchers. Formal adhesion to the declarations of Berlin and Budapest

– Creation of national repositories. Diffusion in Google Scholar and other international diffusers of the world

– Approval of a protocol for the inclusion of works related to the concession of incentives.

– To apply all possible services for the international visibility of Slovenian research

– To improve the website of institutions in order to obtain a greater visibility of the Slovenian research in the world.

Thank you for your attention

Keep on working…

Slovenian Science in Scopus

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez

Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos - CSIC. SCImago Research Group.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics. University of Ljubljana, October 2010.