A Bibliometric Study on Chemical Information and Computer Sciences Focusing on Literature of JCICS

Abstract

A bibliometric approach was used to survey the state-of-the-art of research in the field of chemical information and computer sciences (CICS). By examining the CA database for the articles abstracted under the subsection "Chemical information, documentation, and data processing", Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (JCICS) was identified to have been the top journal in this subsection for the last 30 years. Based on this result, CA subsections and controlled index terms given to JCICS articles were analyzed to see trends in subjects and topics in the CICS field during the last two decades. These analyses revealed that the subjects of research in CICS have diversified from traditional information science and computer applications to chemistry to "molecular information sciences". The SCISEARCH database was used to grasp interdependency between JCICS and other key journals and also the international nature of JCICS in its publications and citedness.

A bibliometric analysis of the literature of chemoinformatics

“…), which would imply that only a few journals would meet the 1% criterion. Journal data for citations to or from JCICS for the period 1981-1998 (i.e., before the emergence of chemoinformatics as a distinct discipline) are provided by Onodera (2001).…”

“…The trends noted here continue if one goes further down the list of highly-cited documents, with the next ten rank positions containing two further reviews, three further software descriptions, and two further articles on the calculation of binding energies. Onodera (2001) noted that a large fraction of JCICS articles originated from outside of the USA, this fraction being greater than for any of the other journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest publisher of chemical literature. This observation applies to the field of chemoinformatics more generally.…”

“…The newness of chemoinformatics -it is only recently that the first textbooks (Gasteiger and Engels, 2003;Leach and Gillet, 2003) and the first academic specialist courses (Wild and Wiggins, 2006) have appeared -means that there have been very few bibliometric analyses to date. Indeed, the only detailed study is that of Onodera (2001), which commenced with an analysis of the papers chosen for abstracting in subsection 20-5 of the Chemical Abstracts database. This subsection is entitled "Chemical information, documentation and data processing" and Onodera showed that the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences was by far the most frequently occurring journal in this subsection during the period 1972-2000 (i.e., mostly prior to the recognition of chemoinformatics as a distinct discipline).…”

A bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

“…There have been few bibliometric analyses in the area of computers and chemistry; examples include studies by Onodera of the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (as it was then named) [7], by Redman et al of applications of the Cambridge Structural Database [8], by Behrens and Luksch of the contents of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database [9] and, most recently, by Willett of the development of chemoinformatics [10].…”

Similarity methods in chemoinformatics

“…This publication started life in 1961 as the Journal of Chemical Documentation , at a time when the principal focus of the subject was the (printed) chemical literature. It changed its name to the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences in 1975 to reflect the by‐then central role of computer methods in the processing of chemical information, and adopted its current title as recently as 2005 to reflect the substantial changes that have taken place in the discipline over the past few years; the effects of these changes in bibliometric terms have been discussed elsewhere (Onodera, 2001; Willett, 2007). Apart from the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling , the other most important journals for chemoinformatics material are the Journal of Computer‐Aided Molecular Design , Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling , and QSAR and Combinatorial Science , although an increasing number of journals across the chemical and life sciences now include chemoinformatics papers (Willett, 2007).…”