Twenty-first century macro-trends in the institutional fabric of science: bibliometric monitoring and analysis.

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Author	Tijssen, Robert J. W. Winnink, Jos
Abstract	Some say that world science has become more ‘applied’, or at least more ‘application-oriented’, in recent years. Replacing the ill-defined distinction between ‘basic research’ and ‘applied research’, we introduce ‘research application orientation’ domains as an alternative conceptual and analytical framework for examining research output growth patterns. To distinguish possible developmental trajectories we define three institutional domains: ‘university’, ‘industry’, ‘hospitals’. Our macro-level bibliometric analysis takes a closer look at general trends within and across some 750 of the world’s largest research-intensive universities. To correct for database changes, our time-series analysis was applied to both a fixed journal set (same research journals and conference proceedings over time) and a dynamic journal set (changing set of publication outlets). We find that output growth in the ‘hospital research orientation’ has significantly outpaced the other two application domains, especially since 2006/2007. This happened mainly because of the introduction of new publication outlets in the WoS, but also partially because some universities—especially in China—seem to have become more visible in this domain. Our analytical approach needs further broadening and deepening to provide a more definitive answer whether hospitals and the medical sector are becoming increasingly dominant as a domain of scientific knowledge production and an environment for research applications.
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ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	109
DOI	10.1007/s11192-016-2041-z
PubMed Central reference number	PMC5124047
Issue Number	3
PubMed reference number	27942087
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. © The Author(s) 2016
Subject Keyword	Basic science Applied science Research orientation Bibliometric analysis Web of science 00A99 O3
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Social Sciences Computer Science Applications