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Missing Evidence : Tracking Academic Data Use around the World / Brian Stacy

Kitzmuller, Lucas [SonstigeR] ; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon [SonstigeR] ; Serajuddin, Umar [SonstigeR] ; Wang, Xiaoyu [SonstigeR]

Englisch

Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2024

1 Online-Ressource (39 pages)

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Stacy, Brian: Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World. - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2024

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10673

*Academia ; Academic Research Article Survey ; Country Data Analysis ; Developing Country Research Study ; Economic Policy, Institutions and Governance ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Natural Language Processing ; Poverty and Policy ; Poverty Reduction

Data-driven research on a country is key to producing evidence-based public policies. Yet little is known about where data-driven research is lacking and how it could be expanded. This paper proposes a method for tracking academic data use by country of subject, applying natural language processing to open-access research papers. The model's predictions produce country estimates of the number of articles using data that are highly correlated with a human-coded approach, with a correlation of 0.99. Analyzing more than 1 million academic articles, the paper finds that the number of articles on a country is strongly correlated with its gross domestic product per capita, population, and the quality of its national statistical system. The paper identifies data sources that are strongly associated with data-driven research and finds that availability of subnational data appears to be particularly important. Finally, the paper classifies countries into groups based on whether they could most benefit from increasing their supply of or demand for data. The findings show that the former applies to many low- and lower-middle-income countries, while the latter applies to many upper-middle- and high-income countries

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