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2018-04 |
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2018-10-31 |
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abstract |
In the last decade, research literature reached an enormous volume with an unprecedented
current annual increase of 1.5 million new publications. As research gets ever more
global and new countries and institutions, either from academia or corporate environment,
start to contribute with their share, it is important to monitor this complex scenario
and understand its dynamics.
We present a study on a conference proceedings dataset extracted from Springer Nature
Scigraph that illustrates insightful geographical trends and highlights the unbalanced
growth of competitive research institutions worldwide. Results emerged from our micro
and macro analysis show that the distributions among countries of institutions and
papers follow a power law, and thus very few countries keep producing most of the
papers accepted by high-tier conferences. In addition, we found that the annual and
overall turnover rate of the top 5, 10 and 25 countries is extremely low, suggesting
a very static landscape in which new entries struggle to emerge. Finally, we highlight
the presence of an increasing gap between the number of institutions initiating and
overseeing research endeavours (i.e. first and last authors' affiliations) and the
total number of institutions participating in research. As a consequence of our analysis,
the paper also discusses our experience in working with affiliations: an utterly simple
matter at first glance, that is instead revealed to be a complex research and technical
challenge yet far from being solved. |
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abstract |
In the last decade, research literature reached an enormous volume with an unprecedented
current annual increase of 1.5 million new publications. As research gets ever more
global and new countries and institutions, either from academia or corporate environment,
start to contribute with their share, it is important to monitor this complex scenario
and understand its dynamics.
We present a study on a conference proceedings dataset extracted from Springer Nature
Scigraph that illustrates insightful geographical trends and highlights the unbalanced
growth of competitive research institutions worldwide. Results emerged from our micro
and macro analysis show that the distributions among countries of institutions and
papers follow a power law, and thus very few countries keep producing most of the
papers accepted by high-tier conferences. In addition, we found that the annual and
overall turnover rate of the top 5, 10 and 25 countries is extremely low, suggesting
a very static landscape in which new entries struggle to emerge. Finally, we highlight
the presence of an increasing gap between the number of institutions initiating and
overseeing research endeavours (i.e. first and last authors' affiliations) and the
total number of institutions participating in research. As a consequence of our analysis,
the paper also discusses our experience in working with affiliations: an utterly simple
matter at first glance, that is instead revealed to be a complex research and technical
challenge yet far from being solved. |
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10959 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645975 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645976 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645977 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645978 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645979 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/645980 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/665945 |
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Article |
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Mannocci, Andrea ; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2018). Geographical
trends in research: a preliminary analysis on authors' affiliations. In: The Web
Conference 2018 (WWW'18), 23-27 Apr 2018, Lyon. |
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Mannocci, Andrea ; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2018). Geographical
trends in research: a preliminary analysis on authors' affiliations. In: SAVE-SD
- International Workshop on Semantic, Analytics, Visualisation Revised Selected Papers
(González-Beltrán, Alejandra; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio and Vahdati, Sahar
eds.), Springer, Cham(10959) pp. 61–77. |
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label |
Mannocci, Andrea ; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2018). Geographical trends
in research: a preliminary analysis on authors' affiliations. In: SAVE-SD - International
Workshop on Semantic, Analytics, Visualisation Revised Selected Papers (González-Beltrán,
Alejandra; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio and Vahdati, Sahar eds.), Springer,
Cham(10959) pp. 61–77. |
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ext-1c5ddec173ca8cdfba8b274309638579 |
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Title |
Geographical trends in research: a preliminary analysis on authors' affiliations |
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oro |