Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has published 754090 documents so far, receiving a total of 14770252 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.61% and 1.34% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a score of 19.59 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, and Book Series a with the total document number of 718566, 23548, 659, 9419, 1807, and 91 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 95.29%, 3.12%, 0.09%, 1.25%, 0.24%, and 0.01% of the total documents published in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) so far, respectively. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has been an active publisher from 1841-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has the highest annual number of publications in 2015, with 49311 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 700940 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 1.48.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess.

The number of published documents by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 718566, 23548, 1807, 659, and 91 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.78%, 0.15%, 0.20%, 0.03%, and 2.99% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 14735476, 25940, 8093, 18, and 85, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.39%, 0.16%, 0.11%, 0.01%, and 1.16% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 696, 35, 36, 2, and 4, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 793, 98, and 33, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 48, 8, 10, 2, and 3, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 20, and 10, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 20.507, 1.102, 4.479, 0.027, and 0.934, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 8.593, 0.070, and 2.404, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 47632, 1367, 84, 72, and 46, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess are 2015, 2011, 2015, 2013, and 2015, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess published in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 1244640, 1740, 619, 4, and 53, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess are 2014, 2013, 2013, 2014, and 2011, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess published in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 46.14, 1.39, 8.23, 0.08, and 7.50, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Datasets, and Book Seriess are 2011, 2010, 2014, 2014, and 2012, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), are 696, 548, and 272, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are 48, 40, and 26, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), are 333685, 156528, 64498, 22060, 4747, 1327, 313, 39, 11, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) based on the number of published documents are RSC Advances, Chemical Communications, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Analyst, and Dalton Transactions. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 65510, 63073, 44906, 39575, and 30813, respectively. These numbers are equal to 8.687%, 8.364%, 5.955%, 5.248%, and 4.086% of the total documents published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are Chemical Communications, Chemical Society Reviews, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and RSC Advances. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 63073, 7501, 44906, 18367, and 65510, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.427%, 0.051%, 0.304%, 0.124%, and 0.444% of the total citations received by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are Chemical Society Reviews, Energy & Environmental Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Quarterly Reviews Chemical Society, and Natural Product Reports. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 157.375, 106.550, 47.515, 45.955, and 41.705, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are front cover, back cover, high performance, x ray, solar cells, self assembly, crystal structure, metal organic, solid state, and visible light, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 24475, 18315, 8947, 8761, 8280, 6453, 6442, 6199, 6048, and 5809, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are solar cells, metal organic, high performance, visible light, graphene oxide, lithium ion, metal organic frameworks, highly efficient, transition metal, and ionic liquids, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 8280, 6199, 8947, 5809, 5397, 4361, 2895, 5538, 5329, and 3500, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are recent advances, metal organic frameworks, metal organic, ionic liquids, perovskite solar cells, sensitized solar cells, dye sensitized, energy storage, dye sensitized solar cells, and supplementary information, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 66.653, 56.858, 45.743, 44.997, 43.361, 43.024, 42.555, 42.219, 41.587, and 40.825, respectively.