An overview on the South Korean scientific production in the field of chemistry (1993-2012)

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)285-304
Number of pages20
JournalInformation (Switzerland)
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Keywords

  • Chemistry
  • Communication
  • Information flow
  • Information science
  • Informetrics
  • Korea
  • Research performance
  • Scientific production
  • Scientometrics

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