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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.
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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 • SCImago Research Group. Main projects • Data Source • Slovenia in the national, regional and international context • Some recommendations
Data source Peer Reviewed (±30000)* ISI-WOS (±9000) Atlas of Science SCOPUS (±18000) SJR and SIR (*) Source: UlrichsWeb
World Country Rank (II) 1996-2008
Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document 2,44 2,511
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 • Thepercentage of thenumber of citations in a givenfieldaccordingtoallcitations in a given country • ATI = • Thepercentage of thenumber of citations in a givenfieldaccordingtoallcitations in theworld • AttractivityIndexmeasuresthecapacitytoattractcitations
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) • Tocreate, (ifitdoesnotexist) a supportunittohelpscientits in scientificpublication: • To produce annualreports of thepublicationpatterns in eachinstitutiontoimprovethecommunicationsamongresearchers and theknowlegde of thedecisionsmakers. • Togiveinformationaboutpossiblejournalstopublish. • 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.
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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.