Page 18 - IDEA Study 1 2016 Publication Output

The situation and development in the Chemistry, Analytical field is in sharp contrast to the situation in a much smaller discipline, Agricultural Economics & Policy (shown in Chart 1b). Panel A indicates a significantly lower publication output in the post- Communist countries, with the exception of the Czech Republic, whose publication output is the fourth highest. Panel B shows that this stems from the extremely high proportion of articles in the 4th quartile, i.e. in journals with the lowest AIS, primarily in the journal Zemědělská ekonomika (Agricultural Economics). 20 For a number of countries, panel C shows zero growth due to a very low or zero starting point. Panel D illustrates the abnormal nature of the situation in the Czech Republic, where publication output in the lowest quartile is almost ten times higher than the average publication output in the other countries. Similar comparisons for other fields included in the WoS can be found in the Discipline Sheets. Overview of All Scientific Fields Chart 2a shows the publication output of all scientific fields in the Czech Republic. The WoS output for each discipline is shown in Chart 2a as the percentage deviation of the given indicator in the Czech Republic from the average indicator in the other compared countries. The horizontal axis then plots the overall publication output (i.e. number of articles) of scientific fields in the Czech Republic compared to the average publication output in said fields in the other countries.21 The vertical axis shows the publication output in outstanding journals within the 1st quartile. The size of various disciplines in the chart determines each discipline’s share in the Czech Republic’s overall publication output (without distinguishing between quartiles based on the journals’ AIS). The overall publication output is therefore the result of a combination of factors: the number of researchers working in the given field (in the Czech Republic and worldwide), standard publication frequency per researcher / year in the given field (frequency may vary greatly between disciplines), and possibly also different publication frequencies of Czech researchers in the given field, compared to their colleagues abroad. 20 Out of all articles published in the WoS in 2014, articles published in the Zemědělská ekonomika journal were cited in a total of 54 articles also published in Zemědělská ekonomika; 21 articles citing this journal were published in the journal Moravian Geographical Reports, 10 articles in Listy cukrovarnické a řepařské (Journal of Sugar and Beet Growing Industry), and 10 articles in local economic journals. 21 Average publication output has been calculated using the individual figures for each of the 11 countries under comparison. 16