The impact of Solid State Communications in view of the ISI Citation data

Bibliometric techniques (i.e. citation analysis) are used to evaluate the impact and standing of Solid State Communications (SSC) among its competitor journals covering the field of condensed matter. In most cases, the analysis covers all issues dating back to the journal's inception in 1963. In some cases, however, the analysis only covers articles published after 1973 because of limited access to the previous data under the available search system. A listing of the most cited articles appeared in SSC since its inception is given. Several of them include Nobel laureates among their authors. An analysis of the articles which remained uncited is also presented. Bibliometric data from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), the Citing Half-Life as well as the Cited Half-Life are compared with those for other journals covering condensed matter and related fields. Furthermore, an analysis of the impact according to the countries of origin of authors is presented. A discussion of the results exhibited in Tables and Figures is given. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.