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Comment on Kiwi superconductivity industry overcomes resistance by New Zealand’s million dollar scientists | A Measure of Science

New Zealand’s million dollar scientists | A Measure of Science — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:54:57 +0000

[...] Ltd, are two of New Zealand’s greatest physical scientists. I discussed some of their work in a blog post last month. Twenty five years ago, the Jeff and Bob took New Zealand to the forefront of [...]

Comment on Patents: Australia vs New Zealand by New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part I | A Measure of Science

New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part I | A Measure of Science — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:46:34 +0000

[...] on scale in R&D (in particular, the increase in patents per capita with city size as discussed here) and McCann’s analysis. The slides from his talk are available [...]

Comment on Zipf’s law and the distribution of patents among applicants by Angels with fat tails | A Measure of Science

Angels with fat tails | A Measure of Science — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:02:28 +0000

[...] As I’ve come to learn, fat tails often crop up in economics, but my conversation with the Angel was the first time I had come across a fat tail outside of physics. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will have seen a fat tail or two when when we looked at the distribution of patents among applicants. [...]

Comment on CRI bibliometric performance: Part II by CRI bibliometric performance: Part III | A Measure of Science

CRI bibliometric performance: Part III | A Measure of Science — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:23:03 +0000

[...] we looked at the growth in the total bibliometric output of the CRIs and at the increase in their citation impact relative to the rest of New Zealand. In this post, I will look at the relationship between CRI [...]

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CRI bibliometric performance: Part III | A Measure of Science — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:22:46 +0000

[...] pretty much unabated since they were created. In earlier posts, we looked at the growth in the total bibliometric output of the CRIs and at the increase in their citation impact relative to the rest of New Zealand. In [...]

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Discipline - Part II — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:30:00 +0000

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Comment on CRI bibliometric performance: Part II by Shaun Hendy

Shaun Hendy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:25 +0000

Mike – yes, I agree. A very nice analysis has been done for the Universities by Warren Smart at the Ministry of Education (available at http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/tertiary_education/35980/35982). Warren broke citations down by subject area and found that citation rates in NZ Universities were growing faster than in the Group of Eight Australian Universities. As far as I am aware nothing like this has been done for the CRIs.

Another interesting observation I have made in the CRI data is that the outputs of some individual CRIs have varied by as much as a factor of two over the last decade.

Comment on CRI bibliometric performance: Part II by mike

mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:31:03 +0000

Further to my earlier comment, aggregate citation rates must be function of the total number of new papers being published, and the average number of other papers cited by each new paper. Presumably the former is rising strongly. The latter depends, as you have said, on the mix of disciplines. Maybe multidisciplinary papers tend to cite a lot of papers, too.
Anyway, to keep pace, a person or organisation researching in a discipline would want their citation rates to at least match the growth in the number of papers being produced in their discipline.
For what it’s worth, the CRIs vary a lot in their production of papers. The ratio of highest to lowest is more than 4 to 1.

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Comment on The New Zealand skills deficit by Key speech highlights high-tech manufacturing | A Measure of Science

Key speech highlights high-tech manufacturing | A Measure of Science — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:18:43 +0000

[...] I don’t know what’s sufficient to turn an F&P into a Nokia, but it is clear from our patent studies that the Finns built Nokia on the intellectual grunt of a large cohort of engineers. And I [...]