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Comments on “a comparative analysis of scientific publications in management journals by authors from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau: 2003–2012”

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After a close reading of a recent paper entitled “A comparative analysis of scientific publications in management journals by authors from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau: 2003–2012” in Scientometrics, some potential problems regarding the data and conclusion of this paper are found. Several comments are made to this paper after replicating the data collection and analysis process.

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  1. They downloaded their data on July 24, 2013. It is about 2 years earlier than mine.

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Liu, W. Comments on “a comparative analysis of scientific publications in management journals by authors from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau: 2003–2012”. Scientometrics 106, 1269–1272 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1809-x

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