STATE OF AFFAIRS AND FUTURE OF THE EU-CA STI COOPERATION

Brussels, 3 September 2015

Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications

Presented by: Hanna Scheck

Content

• Goals of the study• Methodology and sources• Basic figures• Publications and co-publications in SCs• Conclusions

Goals of the studyThe study has the following goals:• Provide a picture and an analysis of the state-of-the-art

and recent trends in EU/AC-CA research collaboration• Provide input, via the IncoNet CA project, to the political

dialogue, joint agenda setting and Horizon 2020 related activities

• Focus specifically on a number of topics considered relevant for both CA and Europe: Climate Change, Energy and Health. What collaboration is going on in this fields?

• Make the ongoing collaboration visible The study is an extended mapping exercise and as such

applied social scientific / scientometric research;

Methodology and sources

• Sources: data retrieved from Elsevier‘s Scopus database and Thomson-Reuters Web of Science (WoS) database in May 2014• Data from 2003 to 2013• with at least one author affiliated with an institution in a

CA country • Focus on Climate Change, Energy and Health

• We applied full counting

Basic figures – research output (pub)

• All CA publications from 2003 – 2013 (indexed journal publications including journal papers, proceedings, book series, etc.): 14,881

– KG: 1,157– KZ: 6,513– TJ: 831– TM: 190– UZ: 6,420

• All CA publications listed in Scopus 2003 - 2013: 12,195

• All CA publications listed in WoS 2003 - 2013: 10,372

*EU/AC are the following countries (according to http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ EU Member States and countries associated to the 7th European Framework Programme for Research): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

CA publication output 2003 - 2013

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Share of international co-authored papers from CACo-authorship shares in 2012:

• TM: 90%• UZ: 45%• KG: 65%• TJ: 59%• KZ: 38%

For means of comparison, the international co-authorship shares in 2012 in other countries:• France: 48.7%• UK: 46.7% • Germany: 46.2%• US: 30.6%• Russia: 29.5%• Korea: 26.5%• India: 16.3%• China: 15.6%

Development of (co-)publications from CA

Percentage of co-publications

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KG (1,157)

KZ (6,513)

TJ (831)

TM (190)

UZ (6,420)

Most important co-publication countries for CA 2003 - 2013

RU 202 RU 1090 RU 121 TR 81 RU 625US 141 US 740 PK 100 RU 25 DE 514DE 106 DE 411 US 88 US 14 US 460TR 80 GB 393 DE 50 IL 12 IT 226GB 76 JP 321 IR 38 DE 11 JP 193KZ 66 IT 223 CH 26 CN 8 KR 170CH 48 ES 209 GB 25 IT 6 FR 154JP 44 CA 201 UZ 24 PL 6 GB 150FR 39 PL 198 JP 22 UZ 6 UA 138UZ 37 NL 175 KG 22 AZ 5 CN 125

KG KZ TJ TM UZ

Development of CA total publication output and co-publication output with selected countries

Co-Publications in the Societal Challenges (SCs)

• Climate Change• Energy • Health

Definition of SCs in this study

Climate Change:Publication are analysed, where authors used as key-words either:

• Climate Change or• Global Warming

Energy: Science Metrix Sub-Field “Energy”

Health: Science Metrix Domain “Health Sciences”

Publications from CA between 2003 and 2013

Climate Change:122

Health:2170

Energy:1008

Total:14.881

No. of (co)-publication in CC over time% of co-publications between 2003 and 2008: 42

% of co-publications between 2009 and 2013: 44

No. of (co)-publication in energy over time% of co-publications between 2003 and 2008: 19

% of co-publications between 2009 and 2013: 34

No. of (co)-publication in health over time% of co-publications between 2003 and 2008: 45

% of co-publications between 2009 and 2013: 42

Focus on Climate Change …

CA involved in publications dealing with Climate Change (2003 – 2013)

Most used author key-words in CA-publications related to climate change

Most important co-publication partners in CC 2003 - 2013

Conclusions

• Publication output is in all CA countries stable or slightly increasing. Only Kazakhstan shows a massive growth rate during the last two years.

• The percentage of co-publications is declining in Kazakhstan, while it is slightly increasing in the other countries.

• Most important co-publication partners are: RU, US, DE, GB, JP, IT, ES, PL, CA and FR

• Co-publications with the EU/AC have a slightly higher growth rate than those with the US and Russia.

Conclusions

• Topic “Water” is clearly in the focus of CC-publications with CA

• Germany is the most important co-publication partner in CC, followed by UK, US, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, China, Denmark, Russia and Spain.

Study authors: Philipp Brugner Katharina Büsel Hanna Scheck Johannes Simon Ivan Zupan

with contributions fromAlexander Degelsegger Dietmar Lampert Klaus SchuchIsabella Wagner