Scientific publishing exists to: (1) certify research quality through peer review, (2) attribute discoveries by crediting authors, and (3) disseminate and archive information worldwide. Publishers facilitate peer review, edit journals, and make articles accessible through online platforms. Trends include the transition to online publishing and greater integration of content. Japan's relative research impact has risen over time in chemistry and biology but remains below average in some fields. Japanese organic chemistry research is particularly strong, accounting for about 16% of top papers.

1. Why have Scientific Publishing ?
Daniel Feerst

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Presentation
 About Elsevier
 Scientific Publishing
 General Background
 General Trends
 Trends from Japan

3. ABOUT ELSEVIER

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About Elsevier
 House of Elzevir founded 1580
 Elsevier as publishing house
established 1880
NOW
 2600 journals
 250,000 articles a year
 8.8 million articles on ScienceDirect,
going back to 1823 (The Lancet)
 386 million downloads a year by 10
million users (over 1 billion downloads
since launch)

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Elsevier and Scientific Publishing
All scientific research articles
1.2 million English language research
articles published globally each year
Learned
Societies
Other Commercial University Presses
Other
Springer
Blackwell
Wiley
Informa
Elsevier
Elsevier – by disciplines
250,000+ English language research
articles published with Elsevier every year
Physics
Mathematics &
Computer
Science
Social Sciences
Earth Sciences
Environmental
Science
Life
Sciences
Materials Science
& Engineering
Chemistry
& Chemical
Engineering

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Elsevier: Portfolio Overview
Electronic products
Books
Journals
2000+ journals, around 1400 listed in ISI
Accessed by 10 million researchers globally
All journals available on ScienceDirect
2200+ new titles published every year
Imprints: Saunders, Mosby, Academic Press, Focal Press, …
6000 books online via ScienceDirect, including 51 MRWs and 300+ book series
Scopus: >14,000 journals abstracted
ScienceDirect: over 1 million downloads from India in 2007
Beilstein & Gmelin Databases
Ei: over 5,000 journals and conference proceedings indexed

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ScienceDirect – Top 10 Journals
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
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ell
The
Lancet
Tetrahedron
Letters
BBR
C
Tetrahedron
JournalofC
hrom
atography
A
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euronC
urrentBiology
FEBS
Letters
Bioorganic
&
M
edicinalChem
istry
Letters
• 386 million downloads overall – 1 million every day
• 67 million from chemistry – 2 every second

8. SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

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Why have Scientific Publishing ?
 Communication of research results and
discoveries between scientists
 Sounds straightforward…

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Why have Scientific Publishing ?
 Certification
- assuring quality and accuracy of published research
(through peer review)
 Registration
- attributing who conducted the research
 Dissemination
- making the information available, worldwide
 Achiving
- ensuring content available “in perpetuity”

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Why have Scientific Publishing ?
 Certification
- assuring quality and accuracy of published research
(through peer review)
 Registration
- attributing who conducted the research
 Dissemination
- making the information available, worldwide
 Achiving
- ensuring content available “in perpetuity”
Author
Needs
Reader
Needs
Research Scientists are both authors + readers of Information

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Peer Review
author
referee
editor
reader
submission
review
Authors write
Reviewers comment
Editors decide
Readers read
Library
Published Journal
Issues
proofs
Typesetter / Printer
Publisher
Accepted
manuscripts
Scientific community:

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The Journal and the Scientific Community
Publishing
Professionals
(often ex-scientists)
Research
Scientists
Efficient Publication Independent & Impartial
Commercial Operation Scientific Assessment of Quality
Investment in Developments Leading Specialists in Field
Journal
Publishers
Advisory Editors
Regional EditorsPublishing Editors
Editor-in-Chief

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STM Publishing Industry – Overview
(STM = Scientific, Technical & Medical)

15. TRENDS IN
JOURNAL PUBLISHING

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Current Trends - Journals
 Final migration from print to online
 Greater integration and depth of content
 Linking
 Backfiles (archival issues online)
 Further increase in usage
 Increased speed of publication
 Greater number of submissions
 Experiments with alternative publishing models
 Open Access / Author Pays (approx. 1% of papers)

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Print to Online
1997 1999 2001 2003 20051997 1999 2001 2003 2005
Benefits
For researchers
• Remote, desktop access
• Fast search
• Interlinked articles
• eFunctions, eg alerts
For librarians
• Easier collection management
• Usage data per journal
• Reduced storage space
• Staff efficiencies
= print
= print + electronic
= eOnly
= print= print
= print + electronic= print + electronic
= eOnly= eOnly

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0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007
FullTextArticleDownloads
Organic Chemistry
(21.5 million)
Physical and Theoretical
Chemistry
(17 million)
Analytical Chemistry
(15.4 million)
Chemical Engineering
(9 million)
Inorganic Chemistry
(4.5 million)
ScienceDirect Articles Downloads
 386 million downloads overall – 1 million every day
 67 million from chemistry – 2 every second

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Unique Users of ScienceDirect
 Example: Tetrahedron Letters
0
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20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
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J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

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Worldwide – Articles Published
430000
480000
530000
580000
630000
680000
730000
780000
830000
880000
1981
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
Year

21. TRENDS FROM JAPAN

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Japan – and Science Publishers
Article Share
(quantity)
Elsevier
Wiley-
Blackwell
Springer
Taylor-Francis
Kluwer
AIP
Others
ACS
APS
Citation Share
(quality?)
Elsevier
Wiley-
Blackwell
ACSAIPAPS
Others
Springer
Kluwer
Taylor-Francis

23. Japan – and Chemistry Articles
Article Share
(quantity)
Elsevier
Wiley -
Blackwell
SpringerTaylor &
Francis
Informa
RSC
Others
Chemical Soc
Japan
Thieme
Science
China Press
Amer
Chemical Soc
Citation Share
(quality?)
Elsevier
Wiley -
Blackwell
Taylor &
Francis
Informa
Others
RSC
Springer
Amer
Chemical Soc
Science
China Press
Thieme
Chemical Soc
Japan

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Measuring Quality of Published Articles
 We consider relative impact (citations) per paper:
 If the ‘world average’ for citations to organic chemistry papers
is 2.0 over a two year period
 And the average for Japanese authored organic chemistry
papers is 1.9
 Then Japanese papers in organic chemistry have a ‘relative
impact’ of 0.95 (i.e. slightly below the ‘world average’)
 We can use this measure to look at trends: per country,
per subject area, over time

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Japan – all fields of researchJapan - Relative Impact Compared to World 1981-2006
0.75
0.8
0.85
0.9
0.95
1
1.05
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Year
RelativeImpact(WorldAve=1.0)
INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = 1.0

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Japan – individual subject areas
INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = 1.0
Relative Impact of Fields within Japan 2002-2006
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
Im
m
unology
M
olecular
Biology
&
Genetics
Space
Science
Biology
&
Biochem
istry
Neurosciences
&
Behavior
M
icrobiology
ClinicalM
edicineChem
istry
Pharm
acology
Physics
Geosciences
Ecology/Environm
ent
Plant
&
Anim
alScience
M
aterials
Science
AgriculturalSciences
Psychology/PsychiatryEngineering
SocialSciences
general
M
athem
atics
Econom
ics
&
Business
Com
puterScienceEducation
RelativeImpact
Better than ‘International standard’
Lower than ‘International standard’

27. Japan – chemistry research
INTERNATIONAL ‘AVERAGE’ = 1.0
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
Analytical
Applied
Chem
Eng
Inorganic
M
edicinalM
ultidisciplinary
O
rganic
Physical
2000
2006
RelativeImpact

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Comparing countries (2000 – 2006)
In06In05
In04In03
In02In01In00
Ch06
Ch05
Ch04
Ch03
Ch02
Ch01Ch00
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000
France (00 – 05)
Germany (00 – 05)
Japan (00 – 06)
Russia (00 – 06)
South Korea (00 – 05)
Brazil (00 – 06)
India (00-06)
World average impact across all fields
Papers per year
Fieldweightedrelativeimpact
China
(00-06)

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Articles Published by Elsevier
TOP 10 COUNTRIES
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
India
C
anada
Spain
Italy
G
erm
any
France
U
K
Japan
C
hina
U
SA
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

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Articles Published by Elsevier
TOP 10 COUNTRIES (excluding USA)
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
India Canada Spain Italy Germany France UK Japan China
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

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Who are downloading scientific papers?
 Geographic split – for Tetrahedron Letters
USA
23%
Japan
11%
China
11%
India
8%
UK
6%
Germany
5%
France
5% Others
31%

32. Japanese Research – Organic Chemistry
 Particular strength of research (c.16% of top papers are
from Japan)
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
20072006200520042003200220012000
Tetrahedron Journals
JOC / OL

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Summary
 Overall, the quality of research papers from Japan is
steadily rising
 Chemistry and biological sciences are ‘above
international standard’ in terms of citations
 Japan is #3 in World, in terms of number of papers
published. Slight decline during last few years
 In organic chemistry, Japan publishes many excellent
papers (16% of total), and is #2 in terms of reading
published articles

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General Structure of a Full Article
 Title
 Abstract
 Keywords
 Main text (IMRAD)
 Introduction
 Methods
 Results
 And
 Discussions
 Conclusion
 Acknowledgement
 References
 Supporting Materials
Journal space is precious. Make your article as brief
as possible.
Make them easy for indexing and searching!
(informative, attractive, effective)
Each section of a paper has a definite purpose
The progression of the thematic scope of a paper:
general  particular  general
However, we often write in the following order:
 Figures and tables
 Methods, Results and Discussion
 Conclusions and Introduction
 Abstract and title

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