Visual Mining of Science Citation Data for Benchmarking Scientific and Technological Competitiveness

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• Visual Mining of Science Citation Data for
  BenchmarkingScientific and Technological
  Competitiveness of World Countries
• Mehmet Can Arslan, Gürdal Ertek
• Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Outline

• Introduction
• Research questions
• Related literature
• Data
• Initials
• Method
• Analyses and results
• Conclusions and future work

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Introduction

• a visual analysis of science citation data
• to investigate competitiveness of world countries

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Research Questions

• Competitiveness?
• Correlations?
• Influence?
• Socioeconomic and geographical insights?

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Related Literature

• Data on Country Statistics
• CIA World Factbook (CIA)
• United Nations (UN)
• World Development Indicators (WDI)
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and
  Development (OECD)
• Data Repositories
• Nation Master
• Data Analysis
• Many Eyes
• Swivel
• GapMinder
• Academic Work
• Ingwersen et al.

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Data
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Initials

• The 41 countries having published papers within
  all 22 fields are
• Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
  Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, England,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India,
  Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
  Netherlands, New Zealand, North Ireland, Norway,
  Peoples Republic of China, Poland, Portugal,
  Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Slovakia, South
  Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
  Taiwan, Turkey, USA and Wales (in alphabetical
  order).
• The Field with the biggest number of countries
  involved is Clinical Medicine with 103 countries
  having published in this field in 2004.
• The number of countries having published in the
  Engineering Field in 2004 is 93.
• The number of countries having published in the
  Computer Science Field in 2004 is 75.
• The number of countries published in Economics
  Business Field in 2004 is 75.

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Method

• Main Indicators
• number of papers
• number of citations
• (belonging to the Essential Science Indicators
  Database in 2004)
• Added Indicators
• citations per paper (CPP)
• papers per thousand people (PPTP)
• Information Visualization Tools
• Miner3D
• Omniscope
• Stata
• Mondrian

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Analyses and Results Competitiveness
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Competitiveness
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Competitiveness
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Competitiveness
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Academic Popularity and Productivity
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Correlations
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Influence
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Influence
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Influence
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Influence
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Influence-Continent Based
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Geographical Insights
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Geographical Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Socioeconomic Insights
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Conclusions and Future Work

• Covering all 22 fields
• Additional data dimensions such as
• number of patents for each Country for each Field
  (hence, patents/paper metric can be introduced)
• GNP of each Country (expressed in terms of same
  currency)
• number of researchers in research and
  development
• Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
• Formal statistical techniques
• Association rule mining

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• Thank You