Table 1.
Asian countries with their GDP per capita, spending on R&D as% of total GDP, number of universities and scientific indexed journals.
Table 2.
Asian countries with total number of research documents, citation per documents and H-Index.
Table 3.
Pearson correlation coefficient between GDP per capita, spending on R&D as% of total GDP, number of universities, indexed journals and total number of research documents, citations per document, H-index in various science and social sciences subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Figure 1.
Correlation coefficient between spending on R&D and total number of research documents in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Figure 2.
Correlation coefficient between the number of universities and total number of research documents in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Figure 3.
Correlation coefficient between scientific indexed journals and total number of research documents in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Figure 4.
Correlation coefficient between per capita GDP and total number of research documents in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Table 4.
Kendall’s rank correlation coefficient between GDP per capita, spending on R&D, number of universities, indexed journals and total number of research documents, citations per document, H-index in various science and social sciences subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.
Figure 5.
Association between per capita GDP and total number of research documents published in various science and social sciences subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.