Abstract
The present review seeks to take stock of the South Korean publication activity on the field of chemistry by analyzing systematically all chemistry-related scholarly communications collected in the Web of Science (WOS) database published by at least one Korean author or Korean institute- or university-affiliated author from 1993 to 2012. The studied parameters included the growth in number of the communications, as well as the language-, document-, category-, source-, organization-, and collaboration-wise distribution of the South Korean communications. A total of 5660 communications on chemistry were found to be published by South Korean researchers during the aforementioned period of time, and South Korea was the 15th country (1.77%) in the world in terms of informational communication activity in chemistry.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 285-304 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Information (Switzerland) |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Chemistry
- Communication
- Information flow
- Information science
- Informetrics
- Korea
- Research performance
- Scientific production
- Scientometrics