Contents

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1.0 Executive Summary

2.0 Overview of Report Structure

3.0 Introduction: Study Background, Historical Trends in Article Production, Methods for Counting Publications and Citations, and Attributing Counts to Institutions and Fields

4.0 Research Approach: Scope, Data Sources, and Analysis Methods

5.0 Trends in Publications, Citations, and Resources

6.0 Variable Transformations: Inflation Adjustment and Lagging

7.0 Decomposition of Variability: Between and Within Institution Components

8.0 Key Variables Associated with Institution-Level Publication Counts

9.0 Adequacy of Model Fit: Time Trends in Resource Utilization per Publication Count and Model Fit by Institutional Characteristic

10.0 Observed and Expected Publication Trends Within Institutions

11.0 Key Factors Associated with Publication Counts at the Field Group Level

Appendix A. U.S. Top 200 R&D Performing Academic Institutions

Appendix B. Study Methodology

Appendix C. Variable Descriptions and Database References

Appendix D. Analysis of Citation Counts

Appendix E. Crosswalk of WebCaspar and ipIQ Classifications

Appendix F. Analysis of the Relative Citation Index

Appendix G. Analysis of Publication Counts in the Fixed Journal Set

Appendix H. Regression Output for Chapter 9

Appendix I. Regression Output for Chapter 10

Appendix J. Regresson Output for Chapter 11

Suggested Citation

Suggested Citation

Javitz H, Grimes T, Hill D, Rapoport A, Bell R, Fecso R, Lehming R. 2010. U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing. Working paper SRS 11-201. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics.