2017/03/04 by Gangan Prathap, Prathap, Gangan
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #Economic and Technological Innovation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.01469
openalex publication_date 2017/03/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that the greater the scientific wealth of a nation, the more likely that it will tend to concentrate this excellence in a few premier institutions. That is, great wealth implies great inequality of distribution. The scientific wealth is interpreted in terms of citation data harvested by Google Scholar Citations for profiled institutions from all countries in the world.