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An analysis of 258 papers published from Singapore and covered inScience Citation Index (SCI) 1979 and 1980 indicates that (1) much of R&D in Singapore pertains to medical research, (2) almost all the papers are published in English language periodicals published from the western world, (3) nearly two-thirds of Singapore's publication output is accounted for by the University of Singapore, and (4) by and large papers from Singapore are rarely cited, even if many of them have appeared in journals having impact factor greater than one.
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Arunachalam, S., Garg, K.C. A small country in a world of big science a preliminary bibliometric study of science in Singapore. Scientometrics 8, 301–313 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018055
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