CERN Accelerating science

Preprint
Report number	CERN-OPEN-2007-014
Title	Quantitative Study of the Geographical Distribution of the Authorship of High-Energy Physics Journals
Author(s)	Krause, Jan ; Lindqvist, C M ; Mele, S
Affiliation	(CERN)
Imprint	16 Jul 2007. - 32 p.
Subject category	Information Transfer and Management
Keywords	SCOAP3 - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
Abstract	The recent debate on Open Access publishing in High-Energy Physics has exposed the problem of assessing the scienti c production of every country where scholars are active in this discipline. This assessment is complicated by the highly-collaborative cross-border tradition of High-Energy Physics research. We present the results of a quantitative study of the geographical distribution of authors of High-Energy Physics articles, which takes into account cross-border co-authorship by attributing articles to countries on a pro-rata basis. Aggregated data on the share of scienti c results published by each country are presented together with a breakdown for the most popular journals in the eld, and a separation for articles by small groups or large collaborations. Collaborative patterns across large geographic areas are also investigated. Finally, the High-Energy Physics production of each country is compared with some economic indicators.
Submitted by	jens.vigen@cern.ch