Abstract
To evaluate the capabilities of academic and scientific research and to support the optimal allocation of scientific research resources as well as the strategic decisions pertaining to science and technology policy, a scientific competitiveness evaluation model is established based on the value of scientific research papers. Using bibliometric and innovation network analysis, an evaluation index is constructed, including quantitative, influence , and frontier of scientific research innovation indicators. The quantitative indicator is based on the citation’s number of scientific research papers. By using between centrality, the influence indicator is calculated. Considering the hot spots and influence of scientific research papers, the frontier indicator is calculated by between centrality and burst detective algorithms. A comprehensive evaluation of academic competitiveness was completed in the scientific research field using the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) algorithm. Empirical research was conducted on the academic competitiveness of countries in the field of graphene. Through the analysis of the scientific competitiveness of major countries, the results showed that the published papers and citations of China ranked in the world. The United Kingdom ranked first in the frontier, and Germany ranked first in influence. From the comprehensive evaluation perspective, the United States achieved good results in quantity, centrality, and hot spots, and ranked first in the world. Germany, Britain, China, and Spain were ranked from second to fifth place, respectively. The results of each index and comprehensive ranking evaluation of graphene were consistent with expert surveys.
Highlights
With the development of technology and the global economy, competition among countries has moved forward to the front of the innovation chain
On the basis of the evaluation model of academic competitiveness, our evaluation of the competitiveness of key scientific research fields included three primary aspects: the quantitative indicator, the influence indicator, and the hot spot and frontier indicator of scientific research innovation, which was objectively obtained according to literature statistics and measurement tools
(2) Frontier indicators were introduced to reflect the academic innovation ability of research fields by calculating the continuous attention of experts drawn to a certain achievement in the scientific field for a period of time
Summary
With the development of technology and the global economy, competition among countries has moved forward to the front of the innovation chain. Countries around the world have invested huge humanpower and material resources to promote research and development. The development of science and technology in China has entered “the coexistence stage” including a leading, reaching stage and following stages [2]. Some scientific research fields are leading globally, some scientific research fields and innovative subjects have entered the "no man’s land" stage of research, in which there are no leaders, no rules, no followers. The promotion of innovation ability and the scientific research level in China has become a difficult problem to be solved [3]
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