Hugo Confraria

European Commission | ec

Study on factors impeding the productivity of research and the prospects for open science policies to improve the ability of the research and innovation system Study on factors impeding the productivity of research and the prospects for open science policies to improve the ability of the research and innovation system to transform financial investm...

Analysts are rapidly developing methods to map publications to SDGs in the face of policy demands. However, as reported by Armitage et al. (2020), a high degree of inconsistency is found when comparing the bibliometric corpora obtained with different approaches. These inconsistencies are not due to minor technical issues, but instead they represent...

Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) could play a critical role in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, it will require an STI planning, investment and evaluation approach that in addition to economic growth, targets more explicitly, social inclusion and environmental sustainability to achieve balanced growth. This will...

Africa is a continent facing severe, urgent, and often unique health challenges. At the same time, in most African countries, national research funding is very limited and research systems are usually dependant on international research funding and collaboration. Therefore, in this context, there are worries that foreign partners will dominate medi...

It is commonly accepted that international research collaboration improves scientists’ abilities and performance. In this chapter, we investigate the question: what are the characteristics of African researchers who collaborate more often with international partners?. Data are taken from Web of Science and a survey that collected detailed informati...

It has long been recognized that investment is needed to build capacity in Science Technology and Innovation (STI) particularly in low and medium income (LMI) countries. Yet there is little understanding as to how to do this. The combination of a) the use of research and innovation policy frameworks more aligned with High-Income Countries rather th...

In this paper, we use a combination of bibliometric, social network and econometric approaches to increase our knowledge of how research institutions interact with the private sector in Latin America (LA). We first study recent trends in scientific output and specialization. On average, LA countries have been reducing the gap with the world leading...

A blog that explore why different sorts of knowledge system are required for different types of development agenda, and the way a sustainable development agenda adds urgency to arriving at something different from the past

Blog discussing the need to think about configurations of knowledge systems adapted for an era of sustainable development

Very little is known about the characteristics of highly cited scientists in Africa. This is unfortunate as highly cited researchers are seen as key drivers of knowledge production for their countries and as important conduits of frontier knowledge into the local academic research community and society in general. In this article, we combined bibli...

The impact of the scientific output produced by different nations in different fields varies extensively. In this article, we apply bibliometric and econometric analysis to study how citation impact varies across countries. This paper differs from previous research in that a cross-section model is put forward to account for such variation. A specia...

In this paper, we use a combination of bibliometric, social network and econometric techniques to increase the understanding of scientific systems and its relationship with the private sector in Latin America (LAC). We first study recent trends in the scientific outcome and specialization. On average, LAC countries have been reducing the gap with t...

The number of scientific papers published by researchers in Africa has been rising faster than the total world scientific output in recent years. This trend is relevant, as for a long period up until 1996, Africa’s share of the world scientific output remained below 1.5 %. The propensity to publish in the continent has risen particularly fast since...