Scientific publications per mill. inhab. - Soil sciences

Short description

Number of publications per one million inhabitants published in the top20 journals within the "soil sciences" 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 one million inhabitants

Original data

Data:

SoilSciences_Publications per 1 mill inhabitants.csv

Unit for original data:

Number of publications

Date of extraction:

Thursday, April 12, 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 two research strands Soil Sciences it has been decided to look at the number of publications contained in the related top 20 journals for this research topic. 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 inhabitants (retrieved from Eurostat).
SO=(“SOIL BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY” OR “PLANT AND SOIL” OR “GEODERMA” OR “JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY” OR “SOIL TILLAGE RESEARCH” OR “APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY” OR “SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL” OR “BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS” OR “CATENA” OR “EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE” OR “AGRONOMY JOURNAL” OR “JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS” OR “VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL” OR “EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY” OR “NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS” OR “IRRIGATION SCIENCE” OR “JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE” OR “PEDOSPHERE” OR “SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT” OR “ARCHIVES OF AGRONOMY AND SOIL SCIENCE”) AND AD=(COUNTRYNAME)
Google Scholar was used for identifying the top 20 journals in the field of Soil Sciences: https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=bio_soil...

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

Agriculture and Soil sciences

More effective and sustainable agricultural practices can improve biodiversity, soil fertility as well as climatic effects and resilience.