Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficient between GDP per capita, spending on R&D as% of total GDP, number of universities, indexed journals and total number of research documents, citations per document, H-index in various science and social sciences subjects among Asian countries during the period 1996–2011.

Parameters	Research Documents	Citation per documents	H-Index
GDP per capita US$	r = 0.050	r = 0.064	r = 0.189
	p = 0.761	p = 0.694	p = 0.242
Spending on R&D	r = 0.480	r = 0.429	r = 0.805
	p = 0.002	p = 0.006	p = 0.0001
Universities	r = 0.841	r = 0.063	r = 0.755
	p = 0.0001	p = 0.699	p = 0.0001
Indexed journals	r = 0.893	r = 0.085	r = 0.801
	p = 0.0001	p = 0.602	p = 0.0001

r = Pearson correlation coefficient.

p = p-value.