Moya-Anegón F., López-Illescas C. & Moed H.F. (2014) How to interpret the position of private sector institutions in bibliometric rankings of research institutions. Scientometrics 98(1): 283-298
Abstract. This paper analyzes the positions of institutions from the private domain in bibliometric rankings of as many as 27,000 research institutions and highlights factors that are crucial for a proper interpretation of such positions. It was found that among the institutions with the largest output in terms of published research articles, private firms are underrepresented, whereas in the top quartile of institutions with the largest citation impact firms are overrepresented.