The Journal of Chemical Documentation and the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences: Publication and Citation Statistics

A publication and citation analysis of the articles that appeared in the Journal in the period 1961-2004 is presented. The ACS Division of Chemical Literature was established in 1948 to provide a medium for exchanging news and views on the various aspects of chemical documentation via technical meetings and papers. It was initially planned that two issues be published per year, but the Journal soon moved to quarterly publication, with the first volume containing a total of 59 articles, 40 of which originated in the Division's technical programs. This pattern continued for over a decade, but by the mid-1970s the majority of the published articles had been submitted independently of the Division. Use of the Analyze Results tool to investigate the WoK subject areas in which items had been categorized showed that all but 23 of them had been categorized as belonging to computer science, with mathematical and computational biology being the only other category appearing 10 or more times.