Impact of GDP, Spending on R&D, Number of Universities and Scientific Journals on Research Publications among Asian Countries

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 6; p. e66449
• Main Authors: Meo, Sultan Ayoub, Al Masri, Abeer A., Usmani, Adnan Mahmood, Memon, Almas Naeem, Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.06.2013
• Subjects: Asia; Author productivity; Bibliometrics; Biomedical Research - economics; Diabetes; Economic development; Economic growth; GDP; Gross Domestic Product; Hernandia sonora; Hirsch index; Humans; Industrial research; Innovations; Medical research; Medicine; Per capita; Periodicals as Topic - statistics & numerical data; Physiology; R&D; Research & development; Research & development expenditures; Research Support as Topic - statistics & numerical data; Researchers; Science; Science Policy; Scientific papers; Scientometrics; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social sciences; Universities - statistics & numerical data; Asia; Saudi Arabia; Riyadh Saudi Arabia

This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and Indexed Scientific Journals on total number of research documents (papers), citations per document and Hirsch index (H-index) in various scie...