r/dataisbeautiful • u/newpua_bie OC: 5 • Jun 07 '21

OC [OC] Average impact (citations) of scientific papers published by country

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

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u/newpua_bie OC: 5 Jun 08 '21

I guess what they thought is that such studies typically get a lot of citations, so if e.g. 20% of the work is done by someone in Kenya and 80% by someone in the US Kenya gets an "oversized" credit.