An analytical look at chemical publications

This report describes some of the results concerning distribution of papers by country, national growth rates, distribution of papers among various journals, and publication times in several analytical journals. Publication in analytical chemistry is a dynamically growing field, with a doubling time of about 14 years, dominated by the USSR and the US, with about 12 core journals, and having a publication time (receipt of manuscript to print) of about six months. Analytical chemistry makes up about 8% of the total chemistry literature and apparently will continue to hold that share in the future. 7 figures, 9 tables. (DP)