Global Trends in Chemistry Publishing Background and Developments

1. Global Trends in Chemistry PublishingBackground 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)

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

6. Journals Books Electronic products Elsevier: Portfolio Overview 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

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. Author Needs Reader Needs 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” Research Scientists are both authors + readers of Information

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

13. Journal Publishers Editor-in-Chief Publishing Editors Regional Editors Advisory Editors The Journal and the Scientific Community Publishing Professionals (often ex-scientists) Research Scientists Efficient PublicationIndependent & Impartial Commercial OperationScientific 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 • 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. Citation Share (quality?) Japan – and Science Publishers Article Share(quantity)

23. Citation Share (quality?) Japan – and Chemistry Articles 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. Better than ‘International standard’ Lower than ‘International standard’ Japan – individual subject areas INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = 1.0

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

28. Germany (00 – 05) France (00 – 05) South Korea (00 – 05) Japan (00 – 06) China (00-06) Brazil (00 – 06) India (00-06) Russia (00 – 06) Comparing countries (2000 – 2006) World average impact across all fields Field weighted relative impact 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 j.milne@elsevier.com

35. Make them easy for indexing and searching! (informative, attractive, effective) Journal space is precious. Make your article as brief as possible. GeneralStructure of a Full Article • Title • Abstract • Keywords • Main text (IMRAD) • Introduction • Methods • Results • And • Discussions • Conclusion • Acknowledgement • References • Supporting Materials 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