Bibliometric Study in Support of Norway's Strategy for International Research Collaboration Final report Bibliometric Study in Support of Norway's Strategy for International Research Collaboration Final report © The Research Council of Norway 2014 The Research Council of Norway P.O.Box 2700 St. Hanshaugen N–0131 OSLO Telephone: +47 22 03 70 00 Telefax: +47 22 03 70 01 [email protected] www.rcn.no/english The report can be ordered at: www.forskningsradet.no/publikasjoner or green number telefax: +47 800 83 001 Design cover: Design et cetera AS Printing: 07 Gruppen/The Research Council of Norway Number of copies: 150 Oslo, March 2014 ISBN 978-82-12-03310-8 (print) ISBN 978-82-12-03311-5 (pdf) Bibliometric Study in Support of Norway’s Strategy for International Research Collaboration Final Report March 14, 2014 Authors Alexandre Beaudet David Campbell Grégoire Côté Stefanie Haustein Christian Lefebvre Guillaume Roberge Other contributors Philippe Deschamps Leroy Fife Isabelle Labrosse Rémi Lavoie Aurore Nicol Bastien St-Louis Lalonde Matthieu Voorons Contact information Grégoire Côté, Vice-President, Bibliometrics [email protected] Brussels | Montreal | Washington Bibliometric Study in Support of Norway’s Strategy for Final Report International Research Collaboration Contents Contents .................................................................................................................. i Tables ................................................................................................................... iii Figures ................................................................................................................... v Executive Summary ................................................................................................... vii 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Overall purpose and scope of the proposed study .............................................................. 2 1.3 Structure of the report .......................................................................................................... 4 2 Overview of Norway’s Collaboration Patterns with Selected Countries in the Sciences in General .......................................................................................................... 6 2.1 Scientific Performance of Norway and Selected Countries and their Propensity to Co-Publish Internationally in the Sciences in General .......................................................... 7 2.1.1 Countries that stand out in terms of transdisciplinarity and share of output available in Open Access ..................................................................... 7 2.1.2 The largest producers of scientific papers ....................................................... 8 2.1.3 Countries’ propensity to collaborate internationally ........................................ 10 2.1.4 Scientific impact of countries and international collaborations ....................... 12 2.1.5 Annual trends for Norway’s strategic partners ............................................... 13 2.2 Collaboration Profiles of Selected Countries with Norway in the Sciences in General .............................................................................................................................. 17 2.3 Collaboration Profiles of Selected Countries with Norway in the Sciences in General by Organisational Sector ...................................................................................... 21 3 Scientific Performance and Collaboration Profiles of Selected Countries with Norway by Strategic Theme ............................................................................................... 24 3.1 Profiles of Selected Countries in the Sciences in General .................................................. 30 3.2 Profiles of Selected Countries in Arctic & Antarctic Research............................................ 33 3.3 Profiles of Selected Countries in Biotechnology ................................................................. 37 3.4 Profiles of Selected Countries in Education ....................................................................... 40 3.5 Profiles of Selected Countries in Energy ............................................................................ 45 3.6 Profiles of Selected Countries in Environment .................................................................... 48 3.7 Profiles of Selected Countries in Climate Change .............................................................. 52 3.8 Profiles of Selected Countries in Environmental Technology ............................................. 55 3.9 Profiles of Selected Countries in Fisheries & Aquaculture .................................................. 59 3.10 Profiles of Selected Countries in Food Sciences ................................................................ 63 3.11 Profiles of Selected Countries in Health & Care ................................................................. 67 3.12 Profiles of Selected Countries in Information & Communication Technologies .................. 72 3.13 Profiles of Selected Countries in Marine & Freshwater Biology .......................................... 76 3.14 Profiles of Selected Countries in Maritime Research .......................................................... 80 3.15 Profiles of Selected Countries in Nanotechnology & New Materials ................................... 84 3.16 Profiles of Selected Countries in Welfare & Working Life ................................................... 88 3.17 Mapping of the Scientific Strengths and Collaboration Intensity with Norway for the Country’s Privileged Partners across the 15 Themes ................................................... 91 4 Network Analysis .............................................................................................. 95 4.1 Scopus ............................................................................................................................... 96 4.2 Arctic & Antarctic Research ............................................................................................... 97 4.3 Biotechnology .................................................................................................................... 99 4.4 Education ......................................................................................................................... 101 4.5 Energy .............................................................................................................................. 103 4.6 Environment ..................................................................................................................... 105 4.7 Climate Change ............................................................................................................... 107 4.8 Environmental Technology ............................................................................................... 109 4.9 Fisheries & Aquaculture ................................................................................................... 111 March 2014 i Bibliometric Study in Support of Norway’s Strategy for Final Report International Research Collaboration 4.10 Food Sciences ................................................................................................................. 113 4.11 Health & Care ................................................................................................................... 115 4.12 Information & Communication Technologies .................................................................... 117 4.13 Marine & Freshwater Biology ........................................................................................... 119 4.14 Maritime Research ........................................................................................................... 121 4.15 Nanotechnology & New Materials .................................................................................... 123 4.16 Welfare & Working Life ..................................................................................................... 124 5 Effect of Multilateral Co-Authorship on the Scientific Impact of Research Output ................ 127 5.1 Effect of Author Self-Citations on the Citation Impact of Co-publications ......................... 127 5.2 Effect of the Number of Authors/Countries on the Citation Impact of Co- Publications ...................................................................................................................... 131 6 Regional Analysis ........................................................................................... 140 7 Cluster Analysis ............................................................................................. 144 8 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 148 9 Methods ....................................................................................................... 158 9.1 Construction of thematic datasets .................................................................................... 159 9.2 Standardisation of research organisations ....................................................................... 163 9.3 Standardisation of researchers .......................................................................................