Scientific collaboration of new 10 EU countries in the field of social sciences

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Abstract

The paper presents bibliometric analysis of scientific collaboration of new 10 countries EU in the field of social sciences. Material for this analysis was drawn from DB SSCI. The states as wholes are considered here as participants of collaboration. The results are mapped in a chart of counter to country links.

Introduction

The object of the paper is the joint publications of authors from the 10 new EU member-states in the field of social sciences. The present study was based on the material of SSCI DB for 2002. As is well known social sciences and humanities are a small part of the world’s overall scientific production (in NSI system social sciences make 8% and humanities only 3% of the total number of publications). It should be kept in mind that publications in those fields are mostly devoted to local and regional problems, and accordingly are not included in ISI DB.

Research cooperation is witnessed by the authors’ addresses: if a paper has two or more authors from different countries, it belongs to the material of the present study. In SSCI DB there are 1060 publications, whose authors’ addresses were in would-be new member-states of EU.

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Research activity and citation statistics

According to NSI Standard version: 1998–2002 saw 3 599 665 papers in the fields of science and social science published with USA as world leader contributing 34.17% of publication. The scientists from 15 EU member-states authored 37.13% of all papers, the share of the ten EU candidate-countries is 2.99% (more than 107 thousand papers), which is roughly equal to that of the 32 countries of Latin America (3.16% of all countries or more than 113 thousand papers).

The cited papers constitute 59.87% of

Research cooperation in the social sciences: results of study

In social sciences research activity is much lower than in science, e.g. in 2002 England had 13112 publications, Germany 4762, France 2363, Italy 1505. Total statistics of research activity and research cooperation of the 10 new member-states is given in Table 2.

The per cent of joint publications is very high, the only exception is two states of former Czechoslovakia.

The indexes ‘number of publication per 1000 inhabits’ are approximately the same for most new EU member-states : 0.02–0.05,

Conclusion

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    The 10 new EU member-states collaborated with 45 countries including the leaders in scientific research: USA (101 joint publications), UK (55), Japan (5), Germany (44), France (16), Italy (8), Canada (11), China (2) and Russia (16), but also with such outsiders as Middle East countries (Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia), the developing countries of Africa (Morocco, Ethiopia) and Latin America (Brazil). Statistics of joint publication for the group of the

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