This work is the second study in the joint venture of the Samuel Neaman Institute and the NCRD, whose aim is to examine the outputs of research and development in Israel, as expressed in scientific publications in academic journals, according to different criteria and over time. The first study in this series was published in 2011 and the present study was published in 2013.
The work was conducted using bibliometric tools and the Thomson Reuters data. These were used to evaluate research outputs quantitatively (number of publications), in terms of the priority of science areas in the country (rate of publications of a scientific area out of the total scientific publications in the country) and qualitatively (as reflected in the number of citations), using international comparison and timeline analysis.
