Australian
Research Capacity in Analytical Science
This
audit was undertaken by scrutinising research publications in analytical science
for the period 1983-2003. The
bibliometric source used was Analytical
Abstracts, which is an abstracting service compiled by the Royal Society of
Chemistry (UK) and covers publications appearing in more than 100 international
journals covering analytical science.
The
following areas are covered comprehensively by Analytical
Abstracts:
- Chromatography, electrophoresis,
spectrometry and radiochemical methods
- Inorganic, organic and
organometallic analysis, including applied and industrial products
- Clinical and biochemical
analysis, including proteomics and genomics
- Pharmaceutical analysis,
including drugs in biological fluids
- Environmental, agricultural and
food analysis
All publications in which
Australia is listed as the country of origin were downloaded and for
publications appearing in the years 1996-2003, ARC classification codes were
assigned to each publication. A
further, more detailed classification was then assigned using the classification
system of the international journal Analytica Chimica Acta. The
coded publications (almost 1800 in number) were then used to compile trend data,
which are presented on the following pages:
Table 1: Number of publications per year (1980-2003 from
Analytical Abstracts) produced in Australia
Table
2: Breakdown of publications from
1996-2003. Number of publications per year by ARC code classification
Table 3: Breakdown of publications from 1996-2003. Percentage of
total publications per year by ARC code classification
Table 4: Breakdown of
publications from 1996-2003. Number of publications produced by state/territory
by ARC code classification
Table
5: Breakdown of publications from 1996-2003. Percentage of total publications
produced by state/territory by ARC code classification
Table
6: Breakdown of publications from 1996-2003. Number of publications produced by
state/territory per year
Table
7: Breakdown of publications from
1996-2003. Percentage of total publications produced by state/territory per year
Table
8: Breakdown of publications in ARC code
250401 (Separation Science) from 1996-2003. Number of publications produced by
state/territory per year
Table
9: Breakdown of publications in ARC code 250401 from 1996-2003. Percentage of
publications produced by state/territory per year
Table
10: Breakdown
of publications from 1996-2003. Number of publications produced by separation
technique per year
Analysis of
Data
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