Title:	A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF THE RESEARCH OUTPUT OF VISEGRAD COUNTRIES
Author(s):	Stephen Nabareseh, Eric Afful-Dadzie, Michael Adu Kwarteng, Petr Klímek
ISBN:	978-989-8533-56-2
Editors:	Hans Weghorn
Year:	2016
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Visegrad Countries, Bibliometrics, Research output, Funding agencies, GDP, Web of Science (WoS), Social Science
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	171
Last Page:	178
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Investments in education, research and development have parallel economic and industrial growth in most developed nations. The higher the investment in Research and Development (R&D) activities, the higher the economic and industrial output. Most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) devote more resources to R&D. These countries research more in scientific and economic areas that have an impact on their macroeconomic areas. The said countries tend to produce higher research compared to those that devote low percentage of GDP to R&D. Modern conventional approach to industrial growth hinges on a nation’s well-focused research and development activities. A first-hand evidence of such growth can readily be deduced from the quality of the nation’s scientific publications. To appreciate the trend of growth in the Visegrad (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) countries, this paper analyses the scientific outputs of the Visegrad Countries in a comparative trend analysis in the specific disciplines of Business Economics, Public Administration, and Operations Research & Management Science. The Web of Science (WoS) database and its bibliometric analytical tool- InCites™ are used for the analysis spanning the year 2000 to 2013. Furthermore, the research compares the number of internal and external funding agencies, the Gross domestic expenditure of each Country on R&D (GERD) with the number of scientific publications by institutions in the Visegrad group. The publication type and research output by institution were also analyzed. The results of the study helps to understand whether investments made in scientific research by Visegrad Countries have a conforming effect on the outputs in well renowned databases. One limitation of the research is that Population of Visegrad countries was not considered. This however does not affect the in-depth findings of the paper.
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