SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF CHEMISTS FROM THE RUGJER-BOSKOVIC-INSTITUTE (YUGOSLAVIA), 1976-1985

The research activity of chemists from the "Rugjer Bošković" Institute (RBI, Zagreb, Yugoslavia) was analyzed for the period 1976-1985, covering 2018 research years of scientific work, and 1149 SCI registered papers (0.57 publications per research year). At the average, one paper was published by 3.05 scientists. The papers were published in 235 different journals, most frequently is the national Croatica Chemica Acta (171 papers). The publications were divided into two groups: for the periods 1976-1980 and 1981-1985, and for each paper citations were collected in the respective time period. An average publication had 2.58 citations. Chemical papers from the second period had 2.73 citations per paper, which is 85% of the expected value, and this was considerably more than for Yugoslav papers (66%) in general. The papers were classified according to the subfields used in the Journal Citation Reports, and the results compared with the data published by Schubert, Glänzel and Braun. The distribution of citations was also analyzed. © 1990 Akadémiai Kiadó.