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Study 10 / 2016
A national comparison of the academic publication
output of the Czech Academy of Sciences: quantity
vs quality and co-authorship3
JUNE 2016
ŠTĚPÁN JURAJDA, STANISLAV KOZUBEK, DANIEL MÜNICH, SAMUEL ŠKODA
Summary
This study maps out in detail the contribution made by the Czech Academy of Sciences
(CAS) to the publication output of the Czech Republic for journals listed in the Web of
Science (WoS) database. The comparison covers not only the share of the total
publication output, but also the share of the excellent publication output, i.e., publications
in top-tier journals of respective fields enjoying the most academic prestige.
A comparative look at the period 2010-2014 shows that in the vast majority of scientific
fields with representation from the CAS scientific teams, the CAS is significantly more
focused on publishing in the most prestigious international journals of the WoS database
than are others in the Czech Republic.
Research cooperation by the CAS in the form of co-authorship takes place at the national
level in various fields with differing levels of intensity, as well as differing in the
qualitative focus of such cooperation.
The sources for this study include the unique bibliometric data processed during the 2015
exercise, the ‘R&D Evaluation of CAS units for 2010-2014’.4
3 The study was made possible thanks to the support of the CAS as part of the Strategy AV21. The
authors are grateful to the CAS evaluation organizers for making available their bibliometric data and
to Ing. J. Kovařík for his help in obtaining information from the WoS as well as to many colleagues for
their comments at the draft stage. Any inaccuracies, omissions or errors are however down to the
autohors.
4The CAS evaluation findings are here: http://www.cas.cz/veda_a_vyzkum/hodnoceni-
pracovist/hodnoceni-vyzkumne-cinnosti-pracovist-av-cr-za-leta-2010-2014.html
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