Analysis on Research Activities in Developing Countries

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  • KATO Maki
    National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

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  • 学術論文の分析から見る途上国の研究活動
  • ガクジュツ ロンブン ノ ブンセキ カラ ミル トジョウコク ノ ケンキュウ カツドウ

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<p>I attempted to analyze scientific research activities of developing countries quantitatively, which used to attract little attention before, using the data from Thomson Reuter Scientific. First of all, according to the result analyzed based on data of 161 countries between 1985 and 2005, the number of academic articles has been increased in all income levels and regions. In the meantime, the share of the articles developed by low-income countries or Sub-Saharan Africa has been slightly dropped. Based on the analysis of the data from Web of Science, the percentage of international co-authorship has been increased for ten years between 1998 and 2007. The trend of international co-authorship varies from regions, where the peak of co-authorship rate of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa records the highest among seven regions.</p><p>Secondly, as a case study, I analyzed six developing countries (two each from South East Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines); South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Nigeria)) and found that countries with a small number of papers show a high international co-authorship rate and low ownership rate of the articles. For researchers in these six countries, researchers in the U.S., Japan, U.K., and Germany are the major co-authors and especially the researchers in the U.S. seem to play a leading role of research activities in all six countries, while researchers in Japan is likely to fulfill the role in two South East Asian countries.</p>

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