BRICS' scientific excellence and the search for relevance and replicability
本文讨论了JASIST上一篇关于金砖国家科研卓越性和国际合作的研究，指出其在可复制性、与国家研究议程的相关性以及情境化方面存在的问题。
JASIST recently published a brief communication focused on two dimensions of scientific production: excellence (top 10% and top 1% highly cited publications) and international \ncollaboration (measured by coauthorship networks) of BRICS’s scholar publications (Bornmann, Wagner, & Leydesdorff, 2015). The authors used data from the Max Planck Digital Library, an in-house version of the Web of Science (WoS). Although their bibliometric analysis for data is \ndetailed, three issues are discussed here: replicability, relevance for national research agendas, and contextualization