Scientific publications per 1000 researchers - Material Efficiency

Short description

The indicator shows the number of scientific publications (peer-reviewed articles) published in academic journals containing at least one of the "Material efficiency-related" keywords in Title, Abstract, or List of keywords. The indicator is expressed in terms of “Number of publications per thousand researchers”.

Be aware that due to delayed data entries in the original database the values for the last couple of years might be underestimated and could possibly increase over the next years. Have this in mind when working with data from recent years.

Meta data

Unit:

Number of publications per thousand researchers

Original data

Data:

MaterialEfficiency_Publications per Kresearchers.csv

Unit for original data:

Number of publications

Date of extraction:

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Data source link:

ISI Web of Science

Rationale

This indicator monitors scientific outcomes in the form of publications along the RECREATE areas. The insights contained in them may help the understanding of societal challenges, contribute to the emergence of future technological or social innovations, or help to improve enabling conditions. We provide data on peer-reviewed scientific publications in for all of the selected innovation systems relevant fields. We present the number of scientific peer-reviewed publications in the Web of Science database divided by the number of researchers in a country.1 By focusing on scientific publication performance in the European Research Area (ERA), the Scoreboard provides estimates of world-class science performance.

Publications represent research activity in specific countries, which in turn makes entrepreneurial activities and investment more likely. Similar publication and investment patterns hint at the presence of learning networks between firms and universities.

1. If no data on the number of researchers is available for a given year, consequently no data on publications per researchers is shown.

Limitations

As we only track English-language publications in Web of Science indexed journals, some increases in publications may be due to the increased pressure to publish in such journals rather than to an actual increase in the productivity of a country’s researchers in the respective field. Countries that put a higher emphasis on publications in their native language may underperform according to these metrics. English-speaking countries or those where English is more dominant are likely to perform better with this metric.

Details on Methodology

Web of Science (WoS) advanced search for each ERA country: WoS database is queried for publications containing at least one of the following keywords in the Topic field (TS), which includes Title, Abstract, and Keywords. Country identification is queried through "Affiliation" (AD) of the publications to each ERA country. The outcome is a time series of number of related publications for each ERA country (34 countries). Furthermore, the overall number of publications has been weighted by the number of researchers (expressed in FTE) in the higher education sector (retrieved from Eurostat). Related keywords: "material efficien*", "resource efficien*", "material productivity", "resource productivity", "eco*cement", "sustainable cement"

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The indicator is relevant to the following innovation systems on this website

Material efficiency

Material efficiency is a main component of resource efficiency.