Which scientific elites? On the concentration of research funds, publications and citations is a research paper published in Research Evaluation (2010). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.644. It has been cited 72 times.
Using the population of all university professors (N=13,479) in the province of Quebec \n(Canada), this paper analyses the concentration of funding, papers and citations at the level of \nindividual researchers. It shows that each of these distributions is different, citations being the \nmost concentrated followed by funding, papers published and, finally, number of funded \nprojects. Concentration measures also vary between disciplines; social sciences and humanities \ngenerally being the most concentrated. The paper also shows that the correspondence between \nthe elites defined by each of these measures is limited. In fact, only 3.2% of the researchers are \nin the top 10% for all indicators, while about 20% are in the top 10% for at least one of the \nindicators. The paper concludes with a discussion of the causes of these observed differences \nand formulates a few hypotheses.
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