Data and Its Limits
Measuring capacity: the available indicators favour the sector that publishes
Every widely used indicator of research capacity measures visibility, and visibility is distributed unevenly.
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Data and Its Limits
Publication Patterns
Co-authorship patterns: a high share of international co-authorship is not automatically a good sign
The useful question is not how much international co-authorship there is, but who leads it.
Publication Patterns
What gets published where: the indexed record understates applied and local work
A search of one international database gives a systematically biased picture of Vietnamese research output.