EU Japan Science Collaboration - a bird s eye view on publication patterns & opportunities for collaboration Anders Karlsson, VP Global Academic Relations With the support from Ludivine Allagnat, Strategy Analyst Collaboration enhances quality Collaboration enhances the quality of research, improves its efficiency and effectiveness, and is increasingly necessary as the scale of budgets and research challenges grow. - The Royal Society 2011 1
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 22 Science Publications Potential Collaborations People make Science Science Publications 2
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 44 How to Track the Science Landscape? We use Elsevier s database Scopus with all the major science publishers world-wide & look at abstracts and citations The largest abstract and citation database of research information: 50 million records 21,000+ active titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including coverage of: Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Arts and Humanities TITLE OF PRESENTATION 55 Scientific Publication Trends (I) Publications (articles) 600000 500000 400000 300000 200000 100000 EU28 United States China Japan South Korea CAGR (compound annual growth rate) 2009-2013 EU28 4.9% USA 4.5% China 10.5% Japan 1.1% Korea 9.5% World 4.4 % 0 Source: Elsevier Scopus, 1996-2013 (data cut April. 2014) 3
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 66 Scientific Publication Trends (II) - What about top 10 % most cited publications? Top 10 % most cited publications 100000 90000 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 EU28 USA China Japan South Korea EU28 overtake the USA All articles 2011 China overtake Japan All articles 2003/2004 Top 10% All 2006 Top 10% Eng. 2003 Top 10% Med. 2010 0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Source: Elsevier Scopus, 1996-2013 (data cut April. 2014) Joint Scientific Publication Trends TITLE OF PRESENTATION 77 Joint Publications (articles) 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 EU28-USA EU28-Japan EU28-China EU28-Korea USA-Japan USA-China USA-Korea CAGR 2009-2013 (compound annual growth rate) EU28-USA 6.5% USA-China 20.2% EU28-China 16.5% EU28-Japan 4.1% USA-Japan 2.5% EU28-Korea 13.2% USA-Korea 10.2% 0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Source: Elsevier Scopus, 1996-2013 (data cut April. 2014) 4
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 88 EU28 & Japan from 2009 to 2013 Top 15 EU countries Source: Elsevier Scopus, 2009-2013 (data cut April. 2014) TITLE OF PRESENTATION 99 How to Measure Science Impact? Progress in Science one way to measure impact -> how much are scientists citing the works of other scientists A meaningful measure is the Field Weighted Citation Impact FWCI: Averaged over all disciplines, taking into account citation traditions Normalize so that world average is one (FWCI=1 world average) 5
Science Europe Report TITLE OF PRESENTATION 10 10 10 TITLE OF PRESENTATION 11 11 Collaboration impact Source: Comparative Benchmarking of Europe and US Research Collaboration and Researcher Mobility (Science Europe & Elsevier, 2013) 11 6
Japan: Top 20 Collaborators China Russia South Korea United States Poland TITLE OF PRESENTATION 12 12 Canada Spain The Netherlands Italy Sweden Belgium India France Switzerland Germany Australia England Taiwan United Kingdom EUcollaboration (but not only) Highly Beneficial for Japan and vice-versa Thailand Bubble size represents the number of co-authored publications with Japan Source: Scopus data 2008-2012 Potential Collaborations 7
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 14 14 University University of Tokyo of Tokyo University - Potential - Collaborating Collaboration of Tokyo Institutions Institutions in Aerospace in Aerospace Engineering Engineering - Current Collaboration Institutions in Aeronautics Citing University of Tokyo in Aerospace Engin but no joint publications in the area during 200 AFFILIATION Instituto Politcnico de Leiria Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft Und Raumfahrt Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Delft University of Technology Technische Universität München University of Surrey Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Politecnico di Milano Geodeettinen Laitos Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique CEA Queen's University, Kingston Rutherford Appleton Laboratory No Doc People make Science 8
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 16 16 Science on the Move! - Nature Global Migration Survey, 2012 Global Science survey: migrants uniformly put the same two factors at the top: 1. opportunities to improve their career prospects 2. outstanding research teams. Source: Nature,490,,.326 329 (18 October 2012) TITLE OF PRESENTATION 17 17 Thank you very much for your attention! E-mail: a.karlsson@elsevier.com Twitter: AKTokyo Mendeley: www.mendeley.com/profiles/anders-karlsson3/ www.elsevier.com 9