Abstract
The 1978 edition of the CBST Chemistry series (Japanese section) was analyzed in terms of source journals and article-generating patterns, leading primary journals, distribution of abstracts by subjects, breakdown by characteristics of articles, intake from other series of CBST, and number of keywords per abstract, and comparisons with the data of foreign sections were also made. The article-generating pattern shows similar tendency in high-ranking journals, but middle-ranking journals produce less with quick dispersion into lower side. Articles are produced in concentration by chemistry proper journals. The distribution by characteristics of articles shows more explanatory ones than in foreign section, and subject-wise increasing tendency is becoming more evident in biochemistry.
