Evolving landscape of low-energy nuclear physics publications
Abstract
Evolution of low-energy nuclear physics publications over the last 120 years has been analyzed using nuclear physics databases. An extensive study of Nuclear Science References, Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR), and Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF) contents provides a unique picture of refereed and non-refereed nuclear physics references. Significant fractional contributions of non-refereed reports, private communications and conference proceedings in EXFOR and ENSDF databases in the 1970’s reflect extensive experimental campaigns and an insufficient number of research journals. This trend has been reversed in recent years because the number of measurements is much lower, while number of journals is higher. In addition, nuclear physics results are mainly published in a limited number of journals, such as Physical Review C and Nuclear Physics A. In the present work, historic publication trends and averages have been extracted and analyzed using nuclear data mining techniques. Lastly, the results of this study and implications are discussed and conclusions presented.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1337652
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-113310-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0138-9130
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientometrics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 109; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0138-9130
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; nuclear science trends; publication analysis; nuclear data mining; relational databases
Citation Formats
Pritychenko, B. Evolving landscape of low-energy nuclear physics publications. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2149-1.
Pritychenko, B. Evolving landscape of low-energy nuclear physics publications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2149-1
Pritychenko, B. 2016.
"Evolving landscape of low-energy nuclear physics publications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2149-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1337652.
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title = {Evolving landscape of low-energy nuclear physics publications},
author = {Pritychenko, B.},
abstractNote = {Evolution of low-energy nuclear physics publications over the last 120 years has been analyzed using nuclear physics databases. An extensive study of Nuclear Science References, Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR), and Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF) contents provides a unique picture of refereed and non-refereed nuclear physics references. Significant fractional contributions of non-refereed reports, private communications and conference proceedings in EXFOR and ENSDF databases in the 1970’s reflect extensive experimental campaigns and an insufficient number of research journals. This trend has been reversed in recent years because the number of measurements is much lower, while number of journals is higher. In addition, nuclear physics results are mainly published in a limited number of journals, such as Physical Review C and Nuclear Physics A. In the present work, historic publication trends and averages have been extracted and analyzed using nuclear data mining techniques. Lastly, the results of this study and implications are discussed and conclusions presented.},
doi = {10.1007/s11192-016-2149-1},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1337652},
journal = {Scientometrics},
issn = {0138-9130},
number = 3,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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