Assessing national strengths and weaknesses in research fields

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Highlights：

• Lack of input data makes nations’ comparison by research productivity unfeasible.

• An input-oriented method based on concentrations of top-scientists is proposed.

• Strong and weak research fields within a national research system can be assessed.

• The new approach is applied to the Italian case in 200 research fields.

摘要

•Lack of input data makes nations’ comparison by research productivity unfeasible.•An input-oriented method based on concentrations of top-scientists is proposed.•Strong and weak research fields within a national research system can be assessed.•The new approach is applied to the Italian case in 200 research fields.

论文关键词：Scientific standing,Research evaluation,Bibliometrics,Highly cited papers,Universities,Italy

论文评审过程：Received 6 May 2014, Revised 23 June 2014, Accepted 8 July 2014, Available online 12 August 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.07.002