Shaun Hendy • Aug 02, 2010 •
By popular request our intern has put together a subject area tag cloud for Australia from their 2009 publications in the ISI database. As she observed, Australia is poorly designed. So much so that it is hard to squeeze Canberra’s tag cloud in between those of Sydney and Melbourne. In fact, you’ll see in the map below it has drifted … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jul 30, 2010 •
Our talented intern from MIT has produced another tag cloud. This time she has taken a look at who we collaborated with in 2008 based on our co-publication preferences in the ISI database. The resulting map is shown below: It’s clear we like working with Australians. Those in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch prefer to … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jul 26, 2010 •
What science are New Zealanders working on? To help me answer this question, I have an intern from MIT here for her summer break. Luckily for me, she hadn’t heard about Wellington’s winter. (Not that our spring or summer are up to much either, although we can put on a decent autumn.) She is a very bright cookie, and she … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jul 05, 2010 •
MoRST has released its national bibliometric report covering papers published during the years 2002-7. The team from MoRST and the Royal Society that put the report together used the Scopus database. The major findings include: • The rate and impact of New Zealand publications has increased during the period 2002-2007. This is especially so in the Tertiary Education … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Feb 19, 2010 •
Last week, John Key signalled in a speech to Parliament that there would be changes to the way the Crown Research Institutes are funded. Indeed, the debate over CRI funding has continued pretty much unabated since they were created. In earlier posts, we looked at the growth in the total bibliometric output of the CRIs and … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Feb 10, 2010 •
In a post a few weeks ago, I looked at the total published output of the CRIs from 1993. Now I want to look at the citations to CRI papers. I will use two citation measures. The first is a two year impact factor, which is a measure that is often used to rank journals. The impact factor … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jan 26, 2010 •
In a post last year, I looked at New Zealand’s bibliometric productivity in the university and government research sectors using data from the SCImago bibliometric site. Over the next few weeks, I will report on some further bibliometric analyses using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science. While providing substantially the same New Zealand-wide results as SCImago, the … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Dec 29, 2009 •
2010 is shaping up to be a defining year for New Zealand’s RS&T system. We will be hearing how the Government will set its RS&T priorities and what these priorities will be. The CRI task force will be reporting back, and we will find out how the Government is going to encourage R&D in the business sector. As … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Oct 27, 2009 •
In an earlier post I looked at the 2008 CRI co-author network. Now let’s turn to the University network. Using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science again, I found 5116 publications in 2008 with authors from New Zealand universities. In total 13930 authors contributed to these papers. The network is shown on the right. Again, a … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Oct 23, 2009 •
MoRST have just released a discussion document which introduces a new structure for RS&T investment, aimed at allowing for greater strategic priority setting. Submissions are due by November 18th. Get it here. What do you think of the feedback document and where would you put our rather modest science dollar? While you are pondering this, here is … Read More