1. Global Trends in Chemistry Publishing Background and Developments
Presented by: James Milne PhD, Publisher – Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
Date: June 2008
Presentation created by James Milne 2007 / 2008

2. Presentation About Elsevier Scientific Publishing General Background
General Trends
Trends from Japan

3. ABOUT ELSEVIER

4. Galileo’s Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche (1638)
About Elsevier
House of Elzevir founded 1580
Elsevier as publishing house established 1880
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)
Galileo’s Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche (1638)

5. 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

6. Elsevier: Portfolio Overview
2000+ journals, around 1400 listed in ISI
Accessed by 10 million researchers globally
All journals available on ScienceDirect
Electronic products
Books
Journals
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

7. ScienceDirect – Top 10 Journals
386 million downloads overall – 1 million every day
67 million from chemistry – 2 every second

8. SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

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

10. 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”

11. 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

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

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

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

15. TRENDS IN JOURNAL PUBLISHING

16. 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)

17. Print to Online Benefits For researchers For librarians
Remote, desktop access
Fast search
Interlinked articles
eFunctions, eg alerts
For librarians
Easier collection management
Usage data per journal
Reduced storage space
Staff efficiencies

18. ScienceDirect Articles Downloads
386 million downloads overall – 1 million every day
67 million from chemistry – 2 every second

19. Unique Users of ScienceDirect
Example: Tetrahedron Letters
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

20. Worldwide – Articles Published

21. TRENDS FROM JAPAN

22. Japan – and Science Publishers
Citation Share
(quality?)
Article Share (quantity)

23. Japan – and Chemistry Articles
Citation Share
(quality?)
Article Share (quantity)

24. 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

25. Japan – all fields of research
INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = 1.0

26. Japan – individual subject areas
Better than ‘International standard’
Lower than ‘International standard’
INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = 1.0

27. Japan – chemistry research
INTERNATIONAL ‘AVERAGE’ = 1.0
Relative Impact

28. Comparing countries (2000 – 2006)
France (00 – 05)
Germany (00 – 05)
Japan (00 – 06)
South Korea (00 – 05)
Brazil (00 – 06)
India (00-06)
World average impact across all fields
Field weighted relative impact
China (00-06)
Russia (00 – 06)
Papers per year

29. Articles Published by Elsevier
TOP 10 COUNTRIES

30. Articles Published by Elsevier
TOP 10 COUNTRIES (excluding USA)

31. Who are downloading scientific papers?
Geographic split – for Tetrahedron Letters

32. Japanese Research – Organic Chemistry
Particular strength of research (c.16% of top papers are from Japan)

33. 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

34. Thank you for your attention
Oxford University
Standlake Village, Oxfordshire
James Milne PhD
Publisher
Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
Elsevier, Oxford, UK

35. General Structure of a Full Article
Each section of a paper has a definite purpose
Make them easy for indexing and searching! (informative, attractive, effective)
Title
Abstract
Keywords
Main text (IMRAD)
Introduction
Methods
Results
And
Discussions
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Supporting Materials
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
Journal space is precious. Make your article as brief as possible.
Manuscripts contain many sections and each one has a definite purpose.
1. At the beginning are the Title, Abstract, and Keywords which play important roles in terms of allowing the article to be easily found, easily indexed, and conveniently advertised to potential readers.
2. The main text of the article is summarized by the IMRAD acronym: Introduction, Methods, Results, AND, Discussion. This is where you must present your work and convey the main messages and findings effectively.
3. The last grouping of sections bring up the end of the manuscript. The Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References, and Supporting Materials.
But these are just artificial groupings and the order change. Some journals request the section of Discussions to be combined with Conclusion or Results. Some others need it to be an independent section. There are also other arrangements of the order (e.g., Methods put after R & D…). Read the Guide for Author for the specific criteria of your target journal!!!
Even though the article is presented in its final form in the structure I have just outlined, it is often better to write the manuscript according to a different order that allows you to develop your core messages and findings first:
Data- Figures and Tables
Methods, Results and Discussion
Conclusions and Introduction
Abstract and title