Abstract Purpose Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Researchers have suggested that, instead of focusing on cities’ total publication output, the quality of the output in terms of the number of highly cited papers should be examined. However, in the period from 2014 to 2016, Beijing produced as many highly cited papers as Boston, London, or New York. In this paper, another method is proposed to measure cities’ publishing performance by focusing on cities’ publishing efficiency (i.e., the ratio of highly cited articles to all articles produced in that city). Design/methodology/approach First, 554 cities are ranked based on their publishing efficiency, then some general factors influencing cities’ publishing efficiency are revealed. The general factors examined in this paper are as follows: the linguistic environment of cities, cities’ economic development level, the location of excellent organisations, cities’ international collaboration patterns, and their scientific field profile. Furthermore, the paper examines the fundamental differences between the general factors influencing the publishing efficiency of the top 100 most efficient cities and the bottom 100 least efficient cities. Findings Based on the research results, the conclusion can be drawn that a city’s publishing efficiency will be high if meets the following general conditions: it is in a country in the Anglosphere–Core; it is in a high-income country; it is home to top-ranked universities and/or world-renowned research institutions; researchers affiliated with that city most intensely collaborate with researchers affiliated with cities in the United States, Germany, England, France, Canada, Australia, and Italy; and the most productive scientific disciplines of highly cited articles are published in high-impact multidisciplinary journals, disciplines in health sciences (especially general internal medicine and oncology), and disciplines in natural sciences (especially physics, astronomy, and astrophysics). Research limitations It is always problematic to demarcate the boundaries of cities (e.g., New York City vs. Greater New York), and regarding this issue there is no consensus among researchers. The Web of Science presents the name of cities in the addresses reported by the authors of publications. In this paper cities correspond to the spatial units between the country/state level and the institution level as indicated in the Web of Science. Furthermore, it is necessary to highlight that the Web of Science is biased towards English-language journals and journals published in the field of biomedicine. These facts may influence the outcome of the research. Practical implications Publishing efficiency, as an indicato
摘要目的近年来，新兴国家的城市出版了大量的科学出版物。长期以来，人们一直观察到北京的出版物产量超过了世界上任何其他城市，包括波士顿、纽约、伦敦、巴黎和东京等主要科学中心。研究人员建议，与其关注城市的总发表量，还不如考察高被引论文数量方面的产出质量。然而，在2014年至2016年期间，北京发表的高被引论文数量与波士顿、伦敦或纽约相当。本文提出了另一种衡量城市出版绩效的方法，即关注城市的出版效率(即高被引文章占该城市发表文章总数的比例)。设计/方法/方法首先对554个城市的出版效率进行排名，然后揭示影响城市出版效率的一般因素。本文考察的一般因素有:城市的语言环境、城市的经济发展水平、优秀组织的区位、城市的国际合作模式以及城市的科学领域概况。此外，本文还考察了影响前100名最高效城市和后100名最低效城市出版效率的一般因素之间的根本差异。根据研究结果，可以得出结论，一个城市如果满足以下一般条件，那么它的出版效率就会很高:它位于英语圈核心国家;这是一个高收入国家;这里有世界一流的大学和/或世界知名的研究机构;该城市的研究人员与美国、德国、英国、法国、加拿大、澳大利亚和意大利的研究人员合作最为密切;高被引文章产出最高的科学学科是发表在高影响力的多学科期刊、健康科学学科(尤其是普通内科和肿瘤学)和自然科学学科(尤其是物理学、天文学和天体物理学)上的。城市边界的划分总是有问题的(例如，纽约市与大纽约)，关于这个问题，研究人员没有达成共识。科学网在出版物作者报告的地址中显示城市名称。在本文中，城市对应于国家/州一级和机构一级之间的空间单位，如Web of Science所示。此外，有必要强调的是，Web of Science偏向于英语期刊和生物医学领域的期刊。这些事实可能会影响研究的结果。出版效率作为一个指标，反映了一个城市在科学生产方面的成功程度。自然，城市争夺科学机构组成部分(如大学、医院)的机会有限。然而，城市可以通过建立科学园区等方式，竞相吸引创新型公司、高科技公司和跨国公司的研发设施。以北京为例，可以观察到这一过程对城市科学绩效的积极影响，北京的出版效率得到了迅速提高。原创性/价值先前的科学计量学研究从论文数量或高被引论文数量方面考察了城市的出版产出，这在很大程度上取决于规模指标;然而，本文试图提出一种更基于质量的方法。
{"title":"Factors Influencing Cities’ Publishing Efficiency","authors":"Csomós György","doi":"10.2478/jdis-2018-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Purpose Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Researchers have suggested that, instead of focusing on cities’ total publication output, the quality of the output in terms of the number of highly cited papers should be examined. However, in the period from 2014 to 2016, Beijing produced as many highly cited papers as Boston, London, or New York. In this paper, another method is proposed to measure cities’ publishing performance by focusing on cities’ publishing efficiency (i.e., the ratio of highly cited articles to all articles produced in that city). Design/methodology/approach First, 554 cities are ranked based on their publishing efficiency, then some general factors influencing cities’ publishing efficiency are revealed. The general factors examined in this paper are as follows: the linguistic environment of cities, cities’ economic development level, the location of excellent organisations, cities’ international collaboration patterns, and their scientific field profile. Furthermore, the paper examines the fundamental differences between the general factors influencing the publishing efficiency of the top 100 most efficient cities and the bottom 100 least efficient cities. Findings Based on the research results, the conclusion can be drawn that a city’s publishing efficiency will be high if meets the following general conditions: it is in a country in the Anglosphere–Core; it is in a high-income country; it is home to top-ranked universities and/or world-renowned research institutions; researchers affiliated with that city most intensely collaborate with researchers affiliated with cities in the United States, Germany, England, France, Canada, Australia, and Italy; and the most productive scientific disciplines of highly cited articles are published in high-impact multidisciplinary journals, disciplines in health sciences (especially general internal medicine and oncology), and disciplines in natural sciences (especially physics, astronomy, and astrophysics). Research limitations It is always problematic to demarcate the boundaries of cities (e.g., New York City vs. Greater New York), and regarding this issue there is no consensus among researchers. The Web of Science presents the name of cities in the addresses reported by the authors of publications. In this paper cities correspond to the spatial units between the country/state level and the institution level as indicated in the Web of Science. Furthermore, it is necessary to highlight that the Web of Science is biased towards English-language journals and journals published in the field of biomedicine. These facts may influence the outcome of the research. Practical implications Publishing efficiency, as an indicato","PeriodicalId":44622,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Data and Information Science","volume":"58 1","pages":"43 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80246207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：