Bibliometry and nanotechnology: A meta-analysis |
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Authors: | Yasuyuki Motoyama Matthew N Eisler |
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Institution: | Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150, United States |
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Abstract: | As in other fields of science, bibliometry has become the primary method of gaging progress in nanotechnology. In the United States in the late 1990s, a period when policy makers were preparing the groundwork for what would become the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), bibliometry largely replaced expert interviews, then the standard method of assessing nanotechnology. However, such analyses of this sector have tended not to account for productivity. We hope to correct this oversight by integrating economic input and output measurements calculating academic publications divided by the number of researchers, and accounting for government investment in nanotechnology. When nanotechnology journal publication is measured in these ways, the U.S. is not the leader, as has been widely assumed. Rather, it lags behind Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. |
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Keywords: | Bibliometry Citation Country comparison Impact factor Metric Nanotechnology |
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