Are Contributions from Chinese Physicists Undercited?

Purpose In this work, we want to examine whether or not there are some scientific fields to which contributions from Chinese scholars have been under or over cited. Design/methodology/approach We do so by comparing the number of received citations and the IOF of publications in each scientific field from each country. The IOF is calculated from applying the modified closed system input–output analysis (MCSIOA) to the citation network. MCSIOA is...