The geography of references in elite articles: Which countries contribute to the archives of knowledge?

This study asks the question on which national "shoulders" the world's top-level research stands. Traditionally, the number of citations to national papers has been the evaluative measures of national scientific standings. We raise a different question: instead of analyzing the citati...

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Main Authors: Lutz Bornmann, Caroline Wagner, Loet Leydesdorff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868817?pdf=render