ABS:Lee, Productivity of SCI Korean medical papers

[Gretchen Whitney]

Productivity of SCI Korean medical papers: 1996-1997
Lee CS
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
14: (4) 351-358 AUG 1999

Document type: Review
Language: English
Cited References: 17

Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
In order to investigate the extent and growth of SCI publication activity
of Korean medicine, DIALOG's SCISearch database was searched and the
number of SCI Korean medical papers in each medical specialty was measured
by publication year and by document type for 1996 and 1997. The
percentage contribution of Korean medical papers to SCI database and the
SCI publication productivity ratio were analyzed for each of 57 medical
specialties. The data obtained in this study was compared with the data
representing the 1980s and the data for the first half of the 1990s. The
absolute productivity of SCI Korean medical papers as measured by the
number of SCI Korean papers has increased about ten times from 306
papers in 1990 to 3,261 papers in 1997. More than 15% of SCI Korean
publication output has resulted from six Korean medical journals indexed
in SCI from 1995. The relative productivity of SCI Korean medical papers
as measured by the percentage contribution from Korea to SCI and by
its corresponding productivity ratio is not as impressive as the absolute
productivity and its growth rate. It has increased three times from 0.245%
to 0.642% during the same period. The relative productivity of SCI Korean
medical publication output is not as great as the SCI Korean
publication output of all sciences combined (1.02%).

Author Keywords:
bibliometrics, Korea, medicine, periodicals/statistics & numerical data,
research/statistics & numerical data

Addresses:
Lee CS, Sookmyung Womens Univ, Dept Library & Informat Sci, Seoul 140742,
South Korea.
Sookmyung Womens Univ, Dept Library & Informat Sci, Seoul 140742, South
Korea.

Publisher:
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES, SEOUL

IDS Number:
230EE

ISSN:
1011-8934

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