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Outperform your neighbors

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A new framework of international comparisons is advised: each country is gauged against its bordering countries. This approach has several undeniable drawbacks, but by revealing some otherwise hidden patterns, advantageously supplements the customary comparison methods.

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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    András Schubert

  2. ELTE Radnóti Miklós School, Budapest, Hungary

    Mihály Schubert

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Schubert, A., Schubert, M. Outperform your neighbors. Scientometrics 80, 553–558 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-2209-2

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