National research contributions: A case study on Finnish biomedical research

Pentti Riikonen; Mauno Vihinen

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1962-y

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 77: Issue 2

National research contributions: A case study on Finnish biomedical research

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Pentti Riikonen

Pentti Riikonen University of Turku Department of Information Science Turku Finland

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Pages:: 207–222

Online Publication Date:: 13 Sep 2008

Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2008

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1962-y

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Abstract

The long-term influence and contribution of research can be evaluated relatively reliably by bibliometric citation analysis. Previously, productivity of nations has been estimated by using either the number of published articles or journal impact factors and/or citation data. These studies show certain trends, but detailed analysis is not possible due to the assumption that all articles in a journal were equally cited. Here we describe the first comprehensive, longterm, nationwide analysis of scientific performance. We studied the lifetime research output of 748 Finnish principal investigators in biomedicine during the years 1966–2000, analysed national trends, and made a comparison with international research production. Our results indicate that analyses of the scientific contribution of persons, disciplines, or nations should be based on actual publication and citation counts rather than on derived information like impact factors. 51% of the principal investigators have published altogether 75% of the articles; however, the whole scientific community has contributed to the growth of biomedical research in Finland since the Second World War.

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