The F-measure for Research Priority

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j_jdis-2018-0001_tab_007_w2aab3b7b1b1b6b1ab1b9ab4aAa

Value for country C and domain D, denoted as V1 = OCD	Value for country C and all domains except D, denoted as V2=OC − OCD
Value for domain D and all countries except country C, denoted as V3 = OD − OCD	All values except country C and domain D, denoted as V4 = OW − OC − OD + OCD

Correlation values_

	Pearson			Spearman
	PUB-AI	PUB-F	AI-F	PUB-AI	PUB-F	AI-F
Journal articles VABB-non-WoS	0.873	0.998	0.872	0.183	0.983	0.267
Journal articles VABB-WoS	0.521	0.964	0.704	0.431	0.470	0.750
Book chapters VABB	0.599	0.922	0.852	0.633	0.933	0.783
Edited books VABB	0.621	0.789	0.965	0.500	0.683	0.933
Monographs VABB	0.461	0.645	0.961	0.233	0.533	0.867
Proceedings papers VABB-WoS	0.631	0.724	0.990	0.731	0.849	0.950
Proceedings papers VABB-Non-WoS	0.595	0.734	0.979	0.633	0.800	0.933

Values according to the AI-formula for the data shown in Table 3_

Disciplines	Journal articles		Book chapters	Edited books	Monographs	Proceedings papers
	VABB-non-WoS	VABB-WoS	VABB	VABB	VABB	VABB-WoS	VABB-Non-WoS
Archaeology	0.737	2.312	0.602	0.394	1.384	2.796	3.052
Art History	0.720	1.518	1.184	1.453	0.879	2.985	2.765
Communication Studies	0.968	1.607	0.770	0.572	0.205	2.408	0.092
History	0.988	1.023	1.071	1.042	1.075	0.000	0.983
Law	1.431	0.213	0.410	0.497	0.589	0.218	0.288
Linguistics	0.682	1.425	1.381	1.591	1.332	2.258	2.525
Literature	0.803	0.755	1.720	1.735	1.376	0.000	1.596
Philosophy	0.730	2.325	0.932	0.612	0.838	1.861	0.339
Theology	0.811	0.469	1.960	1.771	2.116	0.074	0.215

Values according to the F-measure for the data shown in Table 3_

Disciplines	Journal articles		Book chapters	Edited books	Monographs	Proceedings papers
	VABB-non-WoS	VABB-WoS	VABB	VABB	VABB	VABB-WoS	VABB-Non-WoS
Archaeology	0.039	0.108	0.029	0.013	0.032	0.044	0.059
Art History	0.063	0.109	0.088	0.062	0.025	0.053	0.063
Communication Studies	0.091	0.121	0.060	0.025	0.006	0.043	0.002
History	0.156	0.114	0.126	0.056	0.035	0.000	0.025
Law	0.605	0.043	0.091	0.034	0.022	0.005	0.008
Linguistics	0.168	0.213	0.222	0.098	0.047	0.046	0.069
Literature	0.127	0.085	0.203	0.094	0.045	0.000	0.041
Philosophy	0.151	0.312	0.133	0.036	0.029	0.037	0.009
Theology	0.124	0.051	0.225	0.095	0.069	0.001	0.005

Calculations related to Example A; the indicator F is introduced further on_

	Original situation		New situation: Country 2 publishes 17,000 articles less in other domains
	Country 1	Country 2	Country 1	Country 2
OCD	200	1,400	200	1,400
OD	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
OC	12,000	100,000	12,000	83,000
OW	1,600,000	1,600,000	1,583,000	1,583,000
AI	5.33	4.48	5.28	5.34
F	0.0235	0.0267	0.0235	0.0318

Data and calculations related to Example B_

	Basic	Increase in OCD	Decrease in OCD
OCD	190	200	180
OD	200	210	190
OC	200	210	190
OW	400	410	390
AI	1.9	1.859	1.945
F	0.95	0.9524	0.9474

Flemish Humanities publications (2000–2009) in the VABB_

Disciplines	Journal articles		Book chapters	Edited books	Monographs	Proceedings papers		Row totals
	VABB-non-WoS	VABB-WoS	VABB	VABB	VABB	VABB-WoS	VABB-Non-WoS
Archaeology	176	133	40	6	11	12	18	396
Art History	295	150	135	38	12	22	28	680
Communication Studies	425	170	94	16	3	19	1	728
History	773	193	233	52	28	0	19	1,298
Law	4,018	144	320	89	55	11	20	4,657
Linguistics	908	457	511	135	59	54	83	2,207
Literature	631	143	376	87	36	0	31	1,304
Philosophy	786	603	279	42	30	36	9	1,785
Theology	610	85	410	85	53	1	4	1,248
Column totals	8,622	2,078	2,398	550	287	155	213	14,303