On the effects of the reunification on German researchers’ publication patterns
| Autor: | Vincent Larivière, Antoine Archambault, Philippe Mongeon |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
05 social sciences World War II General Social Sciences Library and Information Sciences Bibliometrics 050905 science studies language.human_language Computer Science Applications German Politics Citation analysis Political science 0502 economics and business Cold war language Economic history 050207 economics 0509 other social sciences Period (music) Westernization |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11192-017-2254-9 |
| Popis: | After developing independently following World War II, the research systems of East and West Germany reunited at the end of the Cold War, resulting in Westernization of East German Research institutions. Using data from the Web of Science over the 1980---2000 period, this paper analyses the effects of these political changes on the research activity of scholars from East and West Germany before and after the reunification. It shows that these groups differ in terms of levels of production, publication language, collaboration patterns and scientific impact and that, unsurprisingly, the scholarly output of the East became much more similar to that of the West after the reunification. At the level of individual researchers, analysis shows that East German researchers who had direct or indirect ties with the West prior to the 1990s were less affected by the reunification, or were perhaps quicker to adapt to this major change, than their colleagues who were more deeply rooted in the Eastern research system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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