گزارش Science-Metrix در مورد «تولید علم» در جهان در ۳۰ سال گذشته
محمد قدسی | چهارشنبه, ۵ اسفند ۱۳۸۸
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(2) As Amir said, the number of published papers doesn't necessarily reflect everything about the scientific growth. Although ISI can not tell us everything about science, I believe one can do much better by at least looking at the impact factor and number of citations.
(3) Since the rise of using number in scientometrics, people count numbers of papers to give funding, academic jobs etc and it is a global trend. This has put a lot of pressure on scientists and in many cases reduced the quality of their output by wasting their time to write redundant papers and led to "scientific inflation". This might be a factor in the huge rise of the number of papers in Iran as well. I have personally heard about "number of published works in ISI" as criteria for academic jobs in Iran. To circumvent this issue, Germany has recently forbidden scientists to quote all their papers in grant proposals (Nature news).
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100224/full/4631009a.html
(4) Again on quality, Fig5 confuses me. Israel by far has the supremacy in science and engineering in the region. Yet the figure shows iran and turkey have a larger share.
I have seen a same trend in China. I have hardly read or referred a good Chinese paper. The report again shows "the rise of china".
(5) I think an interesting study would be to look at the impact of "science policies" in Iran, Turkey and China on the number and quality of their papers. My guess is that a policy which rewards numbers, can lead to a scientific inflation with bad quality.