Tracking the results of research from a multi-country/territories/institutions through Count and Share: South Korea, India, and the Natural Sciences
There is a description of the methodology used in this supplement, as well as a guide to the functions that are free online.
Count and Share are used to track the results of research. Each article that has at least one author from a country/territory is given a Count of 1 This is the case regardless of the number of authors an article has, and it means that the same article can contribute to the Count of multiple countries/territories or institutions.
The variation in the total number of articles in the Nature index journals is account for by adjusted share. It is arrived at by calculating the percentage difference in the total number of articles in the Index in a given year relative to the number of articles in a base year and adjusting Share values to the base year levels.
TheCS is the sum of the two institutions shares on the papers which both contributed to. There is a chance for a bilateral collaboration between any two institutions that co-author at least one article in a journal.
Each query will return a profile page that lists the country or institution’s recent outputs, from which it is possible to drill down for more information. It is possible for articles to be displayed by journal and article. The outputs are organized by subject area. The pages list the institution or country’s/territory’s top collaborators, as well as its relationship with other organizations. The users have the option to track their institution’s performance over time and create their own indexes.
The tables in this supplement show the leading South Korean institutions based on their article Share (Share) in different subjects in 2023 and the top rising institutions based on their change in adjusted Share from 2022 to 2023.
South Korea’s Share in natural-science journals in the Nature Index is shown alongside its closest competitors in the database. In the last three years, India has increased its natural-science output by 14.5%, bucking the general trend of decreasing natural-science output among these countries.
The fastest-rising institutions in four natural-science subjects, and in the natural sciences overall, are shown for the period 2019 to 2023. The Pohang University of Sciences and Technology was bigger in the physical sciences than in the natural sciences according to changes in adjusted Share.
