The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success

A number of indications, such as the number of Nobel Prize winners, show Japan to be a scientifically advanced country. However, standard bibliometric indicators place Japan as a scientifically developing country. The present study is based on the conjecture that Japan is an extreme case of a genera...

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Autores: Rodríguez Navarro, Alonso, Brito López, Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Scientometrics
Japan’s research performance
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Bibliometría
22 Física
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spelling The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research successRodríguez Navarro, AlonsoBrito López, Ricardo536001.8Research assessmentScientometricsJapan’s research performanceTermodinámicaBibliometría22 FísicaA number of indications, such as the number of Nobel Prize winners, show Japan to be a scientifically advanced country. However, standard bibliometric indicators place Japan as a scientifically developing country. The present study is based on the conjecture that Japan is an extreme case of a general pattern in highly industrialized countries. In these countries, scientific publications come from two types of studies: some pursue the advancement of science and produce highly cited publications, while others pursue incremental progress and their publications have a very low probability of being highly cited. Although these two categories of papers cannot be easily identified and separated, the scientific level of Japan can be tested by studying the extreme upper tail of the citation distribution of all scientific articles. In contrast to standard bibliometric indicators, which are calculated from the total number of papers or from sets of papers in which the two categories of papers are mixed, in the extreme upper tail, only papers that are addressed to the advance of science will be present. Based on the extreme upper tail, Japan belongs to the group of scientifically advanced countries and is significantly different from countries with a low scientific level. The number of Clarivate Citation laureates also supports our hypothesis that some citation-based metrics do not reveal the high scientific level of Japan. Our findings suggest that Japan is an extreme case of inaccuracy of some citation metrics; the same drawback might affect other countries, although to a lesser degree.SpringerUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20242024-01-0120242024-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101680reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)InglésengPID2020-113455GB-I00 Not available Not availableopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1016802026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
title The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
spellingShingle The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
Rodríguez Navarro, Alonso
536
001.8
Research assessment
Scientometrics
Japan’s research performance
Termodinámica
Bibliometría
22 Física
title_short The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
title_full The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
title_fullStr The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
title_full_unstemmed The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
title_sort The extreme upper tail of Japan’s citation distribution reveals its research success
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez Navarro, Alonso
Brito López, Ricardo
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Brito López, Ricardo
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001.8
Research assessment
Scientometrics
Japan’s research performance
Termodinámica
Bibliometría
22 Física
topic 536
001.8
Research assessment
Scientometrics
Japan’s research performance
Termodinámica
Bibliometría
22 Física
description A number of indications, such as the number of Nobel Prize winners, show Japan to be a scientifically advanced country. However, standard bibliometric indicators place Japan as a scientifically developing country. The present study is based on the conjecture that Japan is an extreme case of a general pattern in highly industrialized countries. In these countries, scientific publications come from two types of studies: some pursue the advancement of science and produce highly cited publications, while others pursue incremental progress and their publications have a very low probability of being highly cited. Although these two categories of papers cannot be easily identified and separated, the scientific level of Japan can be tested by studying the extreme upper tail of the citation distribution of all scientific articles. In contrast to standard bibliometric indicators, which are calculated from the total number of papers or from sets of papers in which the two categories of papers are mixed, in the extreme upper tail, only papers that are addressed to the advance of science will be present. Based on the extreme upper tail, Japan belongs to the group of scientifically advanced countries and is significantly different from countries with a low scientific level. The number of Clarivate Citation laureates also supports our hypothesis that some citation-based metrics do not reveal the high scientific level of Japan. Our findings suggest that Japan is an extreme case of inaccuracy of some citation metrics; the same drawback might affect other countries, although to a lesser degree.
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