Scientific publications per 1000 researchers - Water & Wastewater

Short description

Number of publications per thousand researchers published in the top20 journals within the "Water & Wastewater" research area.

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:

Water&Wastewater_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

For the research strand Water and WasteWater it has been decided to look at the number of publications contained in the related top 20 journals for the research topics “Water Supply and Treatment” and “Hydrology and Water Resources”. Therefore, instead of querying the WoS database for keywords contained in title, abstract and author keywords, the proxy was the journal in which articles are published, i.e. “SO” field in the WoS advanced search. 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). Google Scholar was used as a source for identifying the most relevant journals in the field of “Water and Wastewater”: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_w... (all journals containing “water” in title) and in the field of “Hydrology and Water Resources”: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=bio_h... (all journals except ones with flood related titles).
SO=(“WATER RESEARCH” OR “WATER RESOURCE* MANAGEMENT” OR “WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY” OR “JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT” OR “DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT” OR “WATER” OR “JOURNAL OF WATER AND HEALTH” OR “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT” OR “URBAN WATER JOURNAL” OR “JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY” OR “WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH” OR “HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES” OR “HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES” OR “ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES” OR “JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY” OR “GROUNDWATER” OR “HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL” OR “JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT” OR “JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING” OR “VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL” OR “ECOHYDROLOGY” OR “JOURNAL OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING” OR “JOURNAL OF HYDROINFORMATICS” OR “HYDROLOGY RESEARCH” OR “CLEAN – SOIL, AIR, WATER” OR “APPLIED WATER SCIENCE” OR “WATER POLICY” OR “JOURNAL OF HYDRO-ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH”) AND AD=(COUNTRYNAME)

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

Water and waste water

Water is an essential resource for human livelihoods and the economy.