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Scientific wealth and inequality within nations

Digital Libraries 2017-03-07 v1

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01469,
  title  = {Scientific wealth and inequality within nations},
  author = {Gangan Prathap},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01469},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures

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