1. Scientometric Analysis of Annual Review of Immunology
Tze-Sian Chan1*, Toong-Hua Liang1, Wen-Ta Chiu1, Yee-Shuan Lee2 and Yuh-Shan Ho2#
1Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
2Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital
Introduction
Annual Review of Immunology ranked first not only in immunology with impact factor value of but also among 5752 journals indexed by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, U.S.A.) in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in In this study a bibliometric analysis was done to evaluate the quantitative performance of the Annual Review of Immunology during the time span between 1981 to The evaluation based on the perspective of citation pattern in regarding authorship, country of origin of authors and corresponding authors and document type.
Methodology
The data for this study were based on Science Citation Index (SCI) database on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. The research papers analysis were obtained upon literature search with defined Source Title: Annual Review of Immunology.
Results and Discussion
A total of 516 papers were published in Annual Review of Immunology with citations during the time span from 1983 to Most papers were published by United States contributing about 68%. 99% of the papers were in the form of Review, 0.57% editorial material, 0.38% article and 0.19% Item about an Individual.
Publication output, citation, CPP and RCR of various publishing countries
P:Publication, IP: International collaboration publication
NP: National collaboration publication, C: Citation
CPP: Citation per publication, RCR:Relative citation rate
Annual publication output and CPP from 1983 to 2002
Publication output, citation, CPP and RCR of publishing states in USA
Conclusion
516 papers were published by 19 countries and the USA has dominated with the publication of 75% followed by the second ranking with a thirteen-fold less. This USA dominance in publication suggested that national bias was hidden in the publication patterns.
California, Maryland and Massachusetts states have dominated with the publication of 69% in USA’s publications.
80% publications by small group collaborations (1 to 3 authors) was a popular method as co-authorship.
Seven major industrial countries (U.S.A., Japan, Germany, U.K., France, Italy and Canada) represent a share of 96% of world publications and 96% of world citations in Annual Review of Immunology.
91% publication in Annual Review of Immunology were independent work to national.