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Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research
Citations and text analysis are both used to study the distribution and flow of ideas between researchers, fields and countries, but the resulting flows are rarely equal. We argue that the differences in these two flows capture a growing global inequality in the production of scientific knowledge. W...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01351-5 |
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description | Citations and text analysis are both used to study the distribution and flow of ideas between researchers, fields and countries, but the resulting flows are rarely equal. We argue that the differences in these two flows capture a growing global inequality in the production of scientific knowledge. We offer a framework called ‘citational lensing’ to identify where citations should appear between countries but are absent given that what is embedded in their published abstract texts is highly similar. This framework also identifies where citations are overabundant given lower similarity. Our data come from nearly 20 million papers across nearly 35 years and 150 fields from the Microsoft Academic Graph. We find that scientific communities increasingly centre research from highly active countries while overlooking work from peripheral countries. This inequality is likely to pose substantial challenges to the growth of novel ideas. |
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spelling | pubmed-93142512022-07-27 Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research Gomez, Charles J. Herman, Andrew C. Parigi, Paolo Nat Hum Behav Article Citations and text analysis are both used to study the distribution and flow of ideas between researchers, fields and countries, but the resulting flows are rarely equal. We argue that the differences in these two flows capture a growing global inequality in the production of scientific knowledge. We offer a framework called ‘citational lensing’ to identify where citations should appear between countries but are absent given that what is embedded in their published abstract texts is highly similar. This framework also identifies where citations are overabundant given lower similarity. Our data come from nearly 20 million papers across nearly 35 years and 150 fields from the Microsoft Academic Graph. We find that scientific communities increasingly centre research from highly active countries while overlooking work from peripheral countries. This inequality is likely to pose substantial challenges to the growth of novel ideas. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-05-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9314251/ /pubmed/35637294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01351-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Gomez, Charles J. Herman, Andrew C. Parigi, Paolo Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title | Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title_full | Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title_fullStr | Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title_full_unstemmed | Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title_short | Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
title_sort | leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01351-5 |
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