Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the development of research in computer science in 15 Eastern European countries following the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of 82,121 computer science publications indexed in the Web of Science database and investigated publication, citation, and collaboration patterns of the individual countries.
Findings
Poland has been the most productive country, followed by Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, and Slovenia. Publication rates have increased substantially over the period, but this has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the quality of the publications. Hungary and Slovenia are the most influential countries in terms of citations per paper. Artificial Intelligence is the most frequently occurring computer science subject category, with Interdisciplinary Applications the category with the greatest impact. USA, Germany, UK, France, and Canada are the most frequently collaborating western nations, and papers published in collaboration with US authors accrue the most citations.
Originality/value
This is the first ever bibliometric study of the whole post-communist Eastern European computer science research as indexed in the Web of Science.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), project “NTIS – New Technologies for Information Society”, European Centre of Excellence, CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0090 and in part by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic under grant MSMT MOBILITY 7AMB14SK090.
Citation
Fiala, D. and Willett, P. (2015), "Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 67 No. 5, pp. 526-541. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-02-2015-0027
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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