On the scientific effectiveness evaluation of countries

On the scientific effectiveness evaluation of countries | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article On the scientific effectiveness evaluation of countries Safak YILMAZ This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7197054/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The need for scientometric indicators is gradually increasing to be used in the comparative assessment of scientists, research groups, research institutions, or scientific performance of countries. The governments and non-governmental organizations look for infallible indicators to entrust their scientific funds. In this paper, an approach is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of scientific documents published by a country. Empirical power law relationships between the h-index and the number of documents published by a country are revealed for the countries studied. It has been empirically observed that the dependence of the h-index on the total number of documents creates a trend line clustering the countries. In the empirical power law model, it was determined that the effectiveness exponent could be 0.5 for all countries. In addition, the effectiveness coefficients of the empirical power law model of the countries could be used as the scientometric indicators of the countries. The effectiveness coefficients of the empirical power law model of the countries were also used to determine the scientific clusters of the countries. Social Work h-index Bibliometrics Scientific Effectiveness Scientific Documents Evaluation Full Text Additional Declarations The authors declare no competing interests. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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