Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research [electronic resource] : The Use of Publication and Patent Statistics in Studies of S&T Systems / edited by Henk F. Moed, Wolfgang Glänzel, Ulrich Schmoch.

Editors' Introduction -- Measuring Science -- Econometric Approaches to the Analysis of Productivity of R&D Systems -- Indicators for National Science and Technology Policy -- Keeping the Gates of Science Journals -- S&T Indicators for Policy Making in a Changing Science-Society Relationship -- Paradigms and Trajectories of Technological Opportunities 1890-1990 -- Science on the Periphery: Bridging the Information Divide -- Data Mining and Text Mining for Science & Technology Research -- Opening the Black Box -- Science Maps Within a Science Policy Context -- Analysing Scientific Networks Through Co-Authorship -- Patent Citations and the Economic Value of Patents -- Scientific and Technological Performance by Gender -- The Use of Input Data in the Performance Analysis of R&D Systems -- Methodological Issues of Webometric Studies -- Descriptive Versus Evaluative Bibliometrics -- What Happens When Funding is Linked to Publication Counts? -- Internationalisation in Science in the Prism of Bibliometric Indicators -- Analysis of Cross-Disciplinary Research Through Bibliometric Tools -- Citations to Papers from Other Documents -- The Four Literatures of Social Science -- Evaluation of Research Performance and Scientometric Indicators in China -- Decomposing National Trends in Activity and Impact -- National Patterns of Technology Accumulation: Use of Patent Statistics -- Using Patent Citation Indicators to Manage a Stock Portfolio -- Patent Data for Monitoring S&T Portfolios -- Patent Profiling for Competitive Advantage -- Knowledge Networks from Patent Data -- Measuring the Internationalisation of the Generation of Knowledge -- Patents and Publications -- Measuring and Evaluating Science-Technology Connections and Interactions -- The Technological Output of Scientific Institutions -- Specialisation and Integration -- Science and Technology Systems in Less Developed Countries.

This handbook offers a state-of-the-art survey of quantitative science and technology research. It focuses on the development and application of indicators derived from data on scientific publications and patents. Many contributions introduce new challenging approaches in the use of these indicators. The work deals with theoretical and methodological issues, and presents applications. Scientific or technological performance and productivity of the S&T system and S&T institutions are central to the underlying concept of this handbook, which illustrates how these measures can be used at the macro-level as well as in the management of organisations. In this context, various topics such as quality control in knowledge production, internationalisation of research, collaboration, knowledge networks and knowledge flows, multi- or interdisciplinarity, knowledge specialisation and integration, and participation of women are discussed. Several contributions address the crucial question of the relevance and use of S&T indicators in a policy context.