An Overview on the South Korean Scientific Production in the Field of Chemistry (1993–2012)

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.

Indo-Korean Co-Publications: An Analysis Using Asymmetric (α) Index

“…Meantime, Korea seems to have a regional dimension and a geographical proximity in the world collaboration with Japan (4.01%) and China (2.71%). This result confirms earlier research findings of Korea that show limited research collaboration, compared with their high productivity and more in general that collaboration affinity is greatly shaped by geographic proximity [4,5,19] .…”

“…In particular, in order to have an intuitively clearer representation with a mathematical meaning (see, Eqs. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]), the authors proposed to use the graphical metric based on the 'square surface areas' which represents subsurface structural boundary for the documents published by 'A' or 'B' systems, and the co-publication produced together.…”

“…Many scientometrics studies have been appeared in the literature dealing with the different aspects of scholarly communications [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] . Kademani et al [1] studied the growth and development of world literature on Bhabha Scattering by using three different databases 'International Nuclear Information System' (INIS), Science Citation Index, and INSPEC and found that a total of 1305 papers were published by the scientists in the field Bhabha Scattering during 1969-2008; and there were 47 countries involved in the research in this field where Germany was the top producing country with 421 papers followed by the USA with 420 papers, Italy with 293 papers, and Switzerland with 263 papers.…”