A bibliometric analysis of the articles published at the Symposia on Chemical Information and Computer Science

Abstract

This study tries to understand progress and trends of the research in chemical information and computer science in Japan, through a bibliometric analysis of the articles published at the first (1978) to 23rd (2000) Symposia on Chemical Information and Computer Science. The author indexed 539 articles in 11 of the 23 Symposia using 224 index terms selected from Chemical Abstracts General Subject Index Terms. These 224 terms were classified into 15 subject categories. This indexing and classifying unables us to know tendencies and transitions of the subjects having interested Japanese reseachers in this field. Next, the author sorted every author affiliation data from all 1130 articles published until the 23rd Symposium. Those data were used to find the leading Japanese organizations in this field, contribution by academic/governmental/private sectors, the patterns of collaboration and the correlation between the organizations and research subjects.