1. Why is Swedish science not performing as well as expected? Staffan Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology The 18th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, 2013

2. Several other countries develop better in terms of citation rates Mean normalized citation rate Swedish Research Council 2008

3. The ”Excellence project” at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Öquist G & Benner, M. 2012. Fostering breakthrough research. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences http://kva.se/Documents/Vetenskap_samhallet/Forskningspolitik/2012/ akademirapport_breakthrough_research_121209.pdf Why? 1. Research policy

4. A study of highly cited papers by the Swedish Research Council Karlsson S. & Persson O. 2012. The Swedish production of highly cited papers. Vetenskapsrådets lilla rapportserie 5:2012 http://www.cm.se/webbshop_vr/pdfer/2012_05L.pdf http://www.cm.se/webbshop_vr/pdfer/2012_05L.pdf Why? 2. Biometrics

5. Development of the top 10 %-index

6. Mean citation rate for base-publications

7. The proportion not cited papers

8. Collaboration and impact

9. Main collaboration countries

10. Papers in top journals Nature, PNAS & Science Contribution to total national output Country Proportion of total output Denmark 0.46% Finland 0.27% Netherlands 0.42% Sweden 0.55% Switzerland 0.80% United Kingdom 0.62%

11. Impact of papers in top journals

12. Are there a few top research institutions that affect national values? Institutions w. > 50 publ/yr

13. Summing up… More or less all aspects compared, Sweden (and Finland) perform less well than the other countries…  Sweden has a problem at the system level  Or is the bibliometric statistics giving an incomplete picture?

14. Thanks for your attention!