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How to measure the degree of independence of a research system?

Abstract

The French bibliographic data-base PASCAL is used to study relations between Research Systems in terms of dependance of a periphery upon a Center.

The deployment of disciplines, the productivity and the use of mother tongue of 9 developped countries are quantified (on the Life Science file only).

This dependance is also quantified by reference to who studies whom, and in which language the results are available. A search in Life Science and Earth Science files by means of subject terms added by PASCAL indexers at input to papers published by 5 developped countries working on fourteen Latino-american and African countries.

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Jagodzinski-Sigogneau, M., Courtial, J.P. & Latour, B. How to measure the degree of independence of a research system?. Scientometrics 4, 119–133 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018450

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Keywords

  • Research System
  • African Country
  • Mother Tongue
  • Subject Term