. Cited in 1980-1982 *

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Current Contents, #36, p.5-10, September 5, 1983
.
The 1980 Chemistry
Articles
Most Cited in 1980-1982
*
Number
35
Of course, it is often difficult to make
decisions
about papers published
in
fields liie chemical physics, which we
included in our last study.z Judith Ellen
Sarkisian, senior staff chemist in ISF”s
Chemical Information
Division, made
the categorizations
which,
in some
cases, may seem arbitrary due to the
overlapping of fields. The departmental
affiliation is often as good a clue as we
can use to make such distinctions. This
accounts for the inclusion of papers published in chemical physics journals in
this study as well as in the earlier study of
physical sciences papers,z
Table 1 lists the 108 chemistry papers
selected. The number of citations they
received during 1980-1982 is also shown.
We only include about 100 papers in
these studies primarily because of time
and space limitations.
Only 97 papers
had been cited over 30 times, So we
decided to include 11 more articfes,
each of which was cited 30 times. Thus,
the list includes 108 articles.
The average paper in Table 1 received
43 citations during the three-year period—four in 1980, 17 in 1981, and 22 in
t 982. Most of the four million papers
and books cited in SCZ each year receive
only one or two citations. And the average article published in one of the journals we cover in SCZwill be cited three to
five times in three years. So the papers in
this study are unique in terms of citation
frequency and immediacy.
We do not
claim that these papers represent the
“best” or most original chemical research. And the inclusion of citation
counts is not meant to suggest that one
paper is “better” than another. The irn-
In recent essays, we presented
the
1980 life and physical sciences papers
that received the most citations in 1980
and 1981 .1,2 In this essay, we’ll examine
the most-cited
1980 chemistry papers.
This is the first time we’ve devoted a separate study to highly cited chemistry papers. In other studies, chemistry papers
were usually combined with papers from
the other physical sciences. However,
chemistry papers seemed to be underrepresented
in these “combined’
studies, in which highly cited physics papers
dominated.
This has been solved in two ways.
First, enough time has elapsed since the
original studies of 1980 papers so that we
are able to include another year of citation data. Had we not done this, many of
the papers in this study may not have
reached the required threshold. There
seems to be a “lag time” between publication and citation of superstar chemistry papers. While this lag time may prove
to be a more general phenomenon
in
chemistry, it is not conclusively proved
by this study. But there are several indications that physical chemistry, for example, may have a longer lag time than
other disciplines in chemistry.
Second, in order to identify the mostcited chemistry papers, we examined a
printout that ranks all 1980 papers cited
in Science Citation Index@ (SCP ) by the
number of citations they received from
1980 to 1982. Then we selected those
papers published in chemistry journals.
This was supplemented
by a search for
all chemistry papers published in multidkciplinary journals, such as Science or
Nature.
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Tabfe 1: The 19S0 chemishy
articles most cited in 19S0 1982. The authors’ addresses follow the bibliographic data. Code
numbers indicate the 1982 and 1983 ?SR’* research front specialties for which these are core papers. A = number of citations received, 1980, B =number of citmioms received, 1981. C= number of citations received,
1982. D= number of cit.sfions received, 19.91982,
ABCD
B2b310gIupkic Data
Pby8kca3/Inorgamk Chemky
2
19
13
34
8
38
80 126
7
18
17
42
17
33
410163!3
4142644
1
15
324327M3
7
13
12
32
3
6
26
35
7
13
12
32
2
13
24
39
4111534
8
14
[3
35
6
13
19
38
1
12
27
40
9
23
22
54
291930
2131520
2141430
1
17
18
36
4
16
25
45
8
17
23
48
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277
AiSCD
BLbl@m@tk
S%yskal/lnorgank
1
12
25
38
3
18
13.34
3
13
18
34
I
24
27
52
5
9
22
36
5
16
14
35
5
9
16
X3
7
15
II
33
1
II
18
30
2
16
)2
30
2
11
19
32
1
I3
18
32
4
19
36
59
Data
ChemMry (continued)
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PSwtochemktry/ESectrockemMry
7
f9
27
53
8
22
30
W
6
14
18
M
4
If
16
31
4
20
21
45
1
I5
18
34
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278
ABCD
Blbliogrnpbk Data
Photo.chemhry/EleckrochemMry
I 14
32
47
7
11
15
33
3
15
13
3I
6
17
9
32
6 17 2I 44
4
24
23
S1
9
19
30
58
3
8
22
33
2
14
29
45
4
t6
30
50
2
24
21
47
3
14
18
35
2
14
20
36
5
22
21
48
2
31
44
77
5
12
23
40
2
20
34
54
8
13
25
46
6
19
20
45
4
11
37
52
1
13
22
36
1
J2
22
35
4
26
36
66
[conthmed)
Dawn P, Lenhard J R, Rolison D & Murray R W. Dkffustotml cka~e tnnapori through
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m cnfslyux for
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pbotoprodnctton
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meml compkxea
efecfrOstBtkaJJy bound to POfyelectdyte
coadngs om gmpbfte electrodes,
smd the me of pofymer.
coated rotdng
dkk electrodes
kmdkgnasfag ktnedc and conduction mecksnfsms.
A M(. Chem.
52:1192-8, 1980. CaJii. Inst. Technol.,
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Arthur Amo6 Noyes hb,,
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Sot.
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279
Blbliogmphk
ABCD
Organk/OrganometaUk
3.S
2031
13
33
47
93
1
20
19
40
5
22
31
58
4
13
23
40
6
17
24
47
7
14
17
38
7
9
15
31
22
41
38
7
19
16
42
3
16
36
55
I
14
15
30
Data
Chemistry
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Bricger G & Bennett 1 N. T%. tmnmofectdar
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101
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21
2?
20
68
7
32
28
67
I
14
21
36
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18
28
48
3
16
[7
36
5
22
14
41
4
14
15
33
4
).
22
38
II
29
19
59
6
19
19
44
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280
ABCD
BSblkgmphk
Organic/0rganometalS3c
7
17
16
40
3
17
20
40
4
13
16
33
4
12
15
31
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Dept. Chem,, Kyoto, Japan,
ChemSsfry
Alk@kd
2
12
29
43
1
9
23
33
6121230
I
18
14
33
2
18
24
44
1
16
16
33
1
25
28
54
3
13
17
33
1
!7
26
44
1
17
23
41
6
19
22
47
3
16
25
44
3111630
423.?4357
3
19
21
43
I
13
32
46
272635
Data
ChemMry (conflnued)
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281
mediate impact of these papers is a
strong indicator that many of them will
prove to be “important” by future peer
judgment, if that is not already apparent.
Keep in mind that many 1980 chemistry papers not included in Table 1 will
eventually become Klghly cited. Had we
included 1983 citations, we could easily
add more papers cited at least 30 times.
But the citation rankings of the papers
would change. We’ve identified some of
the “hot spots” in chemical research, but
many important
discoveries require a
longer incubation period. Such “delayed
recognitions
is a fascinating
subject
about which much is said but little
researched,
Those who are sometimes
troubled by the seeming inequities in
funding research in chemistry might well
use such data to establish appropriate
guidelines for measuring the impact of
fields like physical and organic chemistry .
In this connection,
it is important to
observe that if we had included papers
cited at least 27 times, two papers from
the Journal of Physical Chemistry would
have appeared in Table 1. “Absolute
rate constant of the reaction OH +
H202 -9H02 +H20 from 245 to 423-K,”
by L.F. Keyser, California Institute of
Technology,
Pasadena,
was cited 29
times from 1980 to 1982,1 And “Thermodynamic analysis of the growth of sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles,” by P.J.
Mlssel and colleagues,
Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology,
Cambridge,
and Harvard Medical School, Boston,
received 27 citations from 1980 to 1982. s
For convenience,
the 108 papers
in this study are divided into four
broad
subject
categories-physical/
inorganic
chemistry,
photochemistry/
electrochemistry,
organic/organometallic chemistry, and analytical chemistry.
The papers are listed within each category in alphabetic order by first author.
This arrangement is intended to discourage invidious comparisons
by citation
frequency.
More than half of the papers are included as core publications
in the research fronts we now include in Jrrdex to
Scientific Reviews ‘“ (ISR ‘“ ). They are
indicated by the research front numbers
Tsble 2: The 1982and 1983 ISR ‘“ research fronts which contain at least two of the 19&3 most-cited
chemistry papers as core documents, A = research front number, B = research front name. C = number of
1980 most-cited chemistry papem included in the crrrc of each research front.
B
A
82-0331
82-0470
82-%73
82-0695
82-0932
83-0169
83-0591
83-0666
83-0754
83-0755
83-0773
83-0832
83-1104
83-1237
831761
83-2238
832533
Leukotriene studies
Water cleavage into hydrogen and oxygen by vklble light
Ion mass spectrornetry of organic compounds
Layer-structured
transition metal dichalcogenides
Studies of electrodes cnated with polymer complexes
Use of polymer-coated
electrodes
Hydrocarbon synthesis over Fkher-Tropsch
catalysts; hydrogenation
of carbon monoxide
over ruthenium, nickel and other metal catalysts
Studies of Ieukotrienes and their role as mediators of allergic reactions
Photosensitizes,
electron transfer agenta and other factom of photochemical
water
cleavage in artificial photosynthetic
systems
Photoinduced
water cleavage with colloidal suspensions of semiconductor
particles
as catalysts
Semiconductor
electrodes in phrxoelectrochemical
solar cells
Electronic properties of polyacetylene
Electronic properties of polypyrrole and other conducting polymers; use of conducting
pnlymers in semiconductor
photo-electrodes
for anlar energy
con.eraion
StereochemicaI aspects of intramolecular
Diefs-Alder cyclcraddition
reactions
Multiconfigurational
and compfete active space SCF calculations of molecular
properties
Photoelectrochemical
studies of molybdenum d~ulfide, molybdenum rfiaelenide,
tungsten d~elenide and other compounds
Study of collkion-induced
d~sociation by triple quadrupde
mass spectrometw
and other
mass spectrometry techniques
282
c
4
4
2
2
4
7
2
2
Q
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
2
that follow the bibliographic
information in Table 1. I’ve explained elsewhere
how we process SCI to identify these
fronts or specialties.b A research front
consists of a group of current papers that
cite one or more papers identtled
as
core for that topic. While the majority of
the papers are already identified as core
papers, you may reasonably
ask why
others are not. This is a function of the
thresholds
of co-citation
which were
established far identifybg the research
fronts. By modifying our future clustering thresholds, more of these primordml
papers will cluster with other papers that
are highly cited. But it may often turn
out that a single paper will be sufficient
to identify a new and emerging field.
This has been the source of the retrieval
power of the citation index. Each paper
is an incipient clustering tag or symbol.
The names of the research fronts that
include at least two papers from thk
study in their cores are shown in Table 2.
Column A lists the research front numbers. Research front names are derived
from the phrases and words most frequently used in the current articles that
cited the core papers. Column C shows
the number of papers from this study included in the core of each front.
Twenty-one of the papers in Table 1
are single author works. Twenty-nine
papers list two authors, 20 have three, 14
have four authors, 17 have five, three
have six, three have seven, and one
paper has eight authors.
Twenty-five authors have more than
one paper. Three authors have four
papers each—A.J. Bard, E.J. Corey, and
M. Gratzel. Nine authors each have
three papers-F.C.
Anson, A. Il. Bocarsly, D.A. Clark, F.-R.F.
Fan, G.
Goto, A. Marfat, R.W. Murray, N.
Oyama, and M .S, Wnghton.
Thirteen
authors have two papers on the list.
Table 3 liits the 35 journals that published the most-cited chemistry articles
in this study. Only three j oumals account for more than half of the 108
papers: Journal of the Amen”can Chemical Society
(35 papers),
Journal of
Chemical Physics (14), and Accounts of
Tabla 3: The 3S journals represented on tbe list of
the 108 198Ll chemi.stW papers most cited in
19f3&1982, The numbers in parentheacs are the
impact faclors. ( 198U impact factor equals the
number of 1980 citations to 1978-1979 articles in a
journal divided by the number of articles pubIiihed by the journal during the same perind. )
Data were taken from the 19&3 Journal Citation
The figures at the right indicate the
Repotis”.
number of papers from each journal which appear on the list.
J. Amer. Chem. Sot. (5.2)
J. Chem. Phys. (3.2)
Account,
Chem, Res. (8.8)
Tetrahedron
(1.6)
Anal. Chem. (3.3)
J, Electrochem.
Sot, ( 1.9)
Anal. Chim. Acts (2.0)
Biochem, Biophys, Res. Commun. (3,0)
Chem. Phys. Lett. (2.1)
Chem. Rev. ( 10,2)
HeIv. Chlm. Acts (1.8)
J. Chem. Sot. Chem. Commun. (2.4)
J. Chromatogr.
Sci. (2.5)
J. Org. Chem. (2.0)
Nouv, J. Cldm. (2.0)
Science (5.7)
Advan. Chem. Phys. (3.4)
Advan.
Organometal.
Chem. (9.5)
Amer. Mineral. ( 1.1)
Angew, Chem. Int. Ed. (4.8)
Appl. Spectrosc. ( 1.7)
Ber, Bunsen Ges, Phys. Chem. ( 1.4)
Can. J. Chem. (1.2)
Chem. Phys. (2.4)
Chem. Sot. Rev. (4.2)
Coord, Chem. Rev. (2,7)
Inorg, Chem. (2.6)
1, Catal. (2,7)
J. Chromatogr.
(2.1)
J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2.7)
Met. Trans. A—Phys. Met. Mater. SC. (0.8)
Nature (6.5)
Photochem.
Photobiol. (2.5)
Tetrahedron
Lett. (2,0)
Top, Cum. Chem. (3,7)
35
14
7
6
4
3
2
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Chemical Research (7). We’ve indicated
before that the Journal of the Amen”can
Chemical Society is the most-cited journal in the world, in part because of its
long history, but primarily due to its high
quality. Last year it was cited over
100,000 times,T And it continues
to
maintain high impact.
Accounts
of Chemical
Research,
however, is a review journal. In fact,
there are eight review journals in this
study, and they published 18 of the mostcited chemistry articles. In our study of
the
most-cited
1980 lie
sciences
papers,l two review journals contribut-
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ed six papers. In comparison, there were
two articles from two review journals in
our study of the most-cited
physical
sciences papers.2
Certain journals are conspicuous by
their absence in Table 3, especially those
in physical chemistry. For this and other
reasons, we will do a separate study of
thk field in the near future.
Incidentally,
the only two articles in
Table 1 from France appeared in the
Nouveau Journal de Chimie which, in
spite of its French title, publishes mainly
in the English language. This should be
of no small interest to those Francophiles who would insist that French
chemists publish exclusively in French.
The authors represented in this study
were affiliated with 78 institutions in 15
countries. These institutions are listed in
Table 4 in descending order by the number of times they appeared in Table 1.
The US alone accounts for 42 of these 78
institutions, and five are in Canada. The
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),
Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK each
account for four institutions. Three are
located in Japan. Australia,
Belgium,
France, and Italy account for two each.
Denmark,
Israel, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic each have
one. The last two, in fact, appear on a
paper published jointly by the Institute
of Cybernetics in Tallinn and the Chemical Institutes of the GDR Academy of
Sciences in Berlin. It is a significant
comment on the international character
of the Journal of the American Chemical
Society that this study was published in
that journal.
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Table 4t TIM institutional affiliations of the authors on the
1,s! fn~t, [uttuns are bsled m descending
order of the
number ol papem produced
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California, CA
6
Berkeley
2
[wine
2
Los Angeles
1
San Francisco
[Jniv. Texas, Austin, TX
Massachusetts
Inst Tech.ol.,
Cambridge, MA
California Inst. Technol.,
Pmadena, CA
Harvard LJmv., Cam bridSe, MA
Ecale Polytech. Fed. Lausanne, Switzerland
U.W North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Bell Labs., Murray Hall, NJ
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umv.,
New
York,
mr
Karolinska [ml., Stockholm. Sweden
Rice Univ., Houston, TX
SUNY
I
Binghamton
1
Buffalo
Stony Brook
1
Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT
Carnegie-Mellon
[Jniv., Pittsburgh, PA
Cornell LJ”iv., Ithaca, NY
JBM
Res. Lab Sa” Jose, CA
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Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr.
I
Yorktown Heights, NY
Princeton Umb
N]
Univ. Ch,cago, IL
U“iv Kawsmla.t. rn.
FRG
[Jni+. Lund, Sweden
Univ. Minnesota, Minnea@ is. MN
Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphk?, PA
Univ Stockholm. Sweden
Acad. Sci. GDR, Berlin, GDR
Allied Chem. CorR., Morristown, NJ
Alomic Energy R;s. Est., Oxford, lJK
Australian Natl IIni+., Canhema, Auslraba
Brandeis llmv., Wal!ham, MA
Brcwkha%cn Natl. Lab., (Jpton, NY
Carnegie Inst. Washington.
W
CLba-Gejgy AG, Base], Switzerland
El. du Pcmt de Nemmms & Co., Wilmington, DE
Esloman S S.R. Acad. Sci., Talfinn, tJSSR
F1.nigm Corp
Sunnyvale. CA
Hebrew (lni>
Jerusalem, Israel
[ndlana Oni% Blommngton,
IN
JnsI. Mol Sci Okazaki, Japan
Kyoto Uni}
Japan
La Tmbe U.iv
B.ndoora,
Australia
Lou%smna State Unt$., Baton Rouge, LA
Max Planck Sot, Advan Sci. (Fritz Haber Jnst.1
Berlin, FRG
Merck Frosst Res, Labs., Pointe Claire, Canada
Monsanto Co., St. LOUIS, MO
Nagoya Ilnn
Japan
N.!]. Bureau Standards, W ashingbm, DC
Natl. Res CounciL Ottawa, Canada
Nicolet I“strum COV., Madison, WJ
Northwestern
[ Init
Evanston, JL
Oakland O“i>
Rochester,
MJ
Ohio State Uni,
Columbus, OH
Oxford Umv., UK
Pennsylvania State Univ
University Park. PA
Purdue tJni%.. West Lafayette, IN
Seton Hall [lm\,. South Orange, NJ
SIBIT SPA, Spinctm Marengo. Jtaly
Swms Fed. Inst. Technol.,
Zurich, Switzerland
Tech. (Jnu. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Texas A&M [Iii
College Station, TX
[l”i,, Alberta, Edmomon, Canada
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Univ
Uni$,
Anlwerp
Wihijk, Belgium
Arkamm, Fayerteville, AR
Bern, Switzerland
Binni”gham,
[IK
Briush Colurnbm Va”co”ver,
Canada
East A“glia, Norwich, UK
Erla”gem FRG
Frankfurt, FRG
Ghent, Bdgmm
Hous[ on, TX
Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
~f”, ”. Ottawa,
Canada
Univ. Paris XJ—Paris-Sud. OrsaY. France
Univ P]t(sburgh, PA
Univ. Totino, Italy
(Jni*. Upp$ala, Sweden
Univ Virginia. ChaclottesviUe,
VA
[lni*. Wisconsin, Madison. WI
Watcm Awocs. In.
Milford. MA
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Although
the most-cited
chemistry
papers were written in 15 countries,
every one was published in English.
Table 5 shows these countries, and the
number of papers published.
US authors, for example, appeared on 80 papers in Table 1, of which seven were coauthored with researchers from Australia, Belgium, FRG, Israel, and Sweden.
That is, 73 of the 108 papers in thk study
listed ordy US authors.
As explained earlier, the papers in this
study were assigned to four broad subject areas. Thirty-five papers are included under physicallinorganic
chemistry.
Most of these papers describe the physical properties of a number of elements,
molecules,
and compounds
as determined by various methods of analysis.
Others discuss the structure of both simple and complex compounds. The mostcited paper in thw study appears in this
category. “Seff-consistent molecular orbital methods. 21. Smalf split-valence
basis sets for first-row elements” by J.S.
Binkley and J.A. Pople, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and W .J. Hehre, University of California, Irvine, was published in Journal
of the A rnerican Chernica! Society. It
has received
126 citations—eight
in
1980, 38 in 1981, and 80 in 1982.
Twenty-nine
papers are in photochemistry or electrochemistry.
Much of
Tsble S: National affiliations of the authors of the 19S0
chemis!ry articles most cited in 19S0-f9S2, in order of the
$otal number of papers on wh]ch each nafion’s authors ap
peared (column A). B= number of papers coauthored
with scientists
from other countries.
C =nationality
of
coauthors.
us
Sweden
Stitzerkmd
Csnada
FRG
Japan
UK
Austdii
Belgium
France
Denmark
GDR
Israel
Italy
USSR
c
A
B
so
7
Australia. BeIgium,
Israel. Sweden
3
2
us
7
6
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
I
1
1
Australia,
FRG,
Italy
0
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Switzerland,
US
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. . .. . .
me researcts 333th3s nem concentrates on
the conversion of solar energy to electrical and chemical
energy. Specific
areas of research include the transport
of electron charges through semiconductors,
splitting water molecules
to
produce hydrogen and oxygen gases,
and various chemical reactions induced
by electrodes in liquids.
Organic and organometallic
chemistry accounts for 27 papers. These papers
discus the synthesis and properties of
many natural and organic, or “carbonbased,” compounds. The second mostcited paper is in this group. It discusses
leukotriene C- 1, a substance involved in
asthma and other allergic reactions. E.J.
Corey and colleagues, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
described the synthesis of Ieukotriene C-1
in Journa[ of the Amen”can Chemical Society. It was cited 101 times—22 in 1980,
41 in 1981, and 38 in 1982.
This paper, and three others in this
section, are core documents in lSR research front number 82-0331, “Leukotriene studies. ” Leukotnenes
are also the
subject of intense research activity in the
life sciences. In our study of the mostcited 1980 life sciences papers, six were
concerned with leukotrienes. I There are
numerous biomedical research fronts for
this field in the Index to Research Fronts
in ISI/BIOMED@
1982.8 Incidentally,
the 1983 edhion has now been published.
The remaining 17 papers in th~ study
are in analytical chemistry. Ahnost all of
these dkcuss the separation, identification, and structural anrdysis of complex
molecules and compounds.
This concludes our series of studies of
the most-cited 1980 articles in the Me,
physical, and chemical sciences. Most of
the papers identtiled in these studies will
continue to be highly cited in the future.
A paper’s lifetime citation rate can be
forecasted reasonably wefl by its citation
frequency in the first few years following
publication.
But forecasts are always
subject to qualification.
1S1 is planning to produce several new
online &ta bases in chemistry. These
USSR
us
Switzerland
GLJR
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will cover the main branches of chemistry and will be modeled on our series of
disciplinary
data bases covering
the
literature of biomedicine,
geology, and
math That is, you will be able to search
these data bases to retrieve information
of all types, including the core papers for
each of the thousands of specialties we
identify.
In addition, you tiff soon be able to
search online all the information
covered in ISI’S Current A bstracts of Chemistry and Index Chemicusm (CA C&IP).
This online service is searchable by analytical techniques,
biological activities,
molecular
formulas,
chemical
structures, subject terms, and conventional
bibliographic terms. The data base features full graphic input and output of
More
about
chemical
structures.
CAC&IC online will be reported in the
future.
Journal editors often inquire if we can
identify the most-cited papers for their
journals, or if it is possible to organize
what amounts to an individual journal
citation index. Ths is not only possible
but quite relevant because we have just
completed an articfe-by-article
citation
analysis for a group of journals that gives
a six-year citation history for articles
they published in 1977. In these studies,
we are able to separate the many different types of “items” a journal publishes—research articles, reviews, notes,
letters, editorials,
etc.—and
compute
separate impact factors for each. If you
are interested in obtaining data for one
or more journals, please contact Susan
Jones, manager of journal services at
1S1.
*****
My thanks to Dorothy Silver and
Alfred We[ljams-Dorof for their help in
the prepamtion of this essay.
,,,W ,~,
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