Journal
SCIENTOMETRICS
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 967-985Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0736-3
Keywords
Scientific productivity; Economic development; Authoritarianism; Count models
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This paper examines the influence of economic, linguistic, and political factors in the scientific productivity of countries across selected scientific disciplines. Using a negative binomial regression model, I show that the effect of these determinants is contingent upon the scientific field under analysis. The only variable that exerts a positive and significant effect across all disciplines is the size of the economy. The linguistic variable only has a positive influence in the social sciences as well as in medicine and agricultural sciences. In addition, it is also demonstrated that the degree of political authoritarianism has a negative and statistically significant effect in some of the selected fields.
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