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Document Type Profiles in Nature, Science, and PNAS: Journal and Country Level

Journal of Data and Information Science

Volume 1 (2016): Issue 3 (August 2016)

By: Jielan Ding, Per Ahlgren, Liying Yang and Ting Yue

Open Access

|Sep 2017

Figures & Tables

Document type profi les in Nature in years 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014.

Document type profiles in Science in years 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014.

Document type profiles in PNAS in years 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014. Note that 0.0% is the result rounded to the nearest tenth.

Radar plots representing the country document type profiles in Nature in year 2014.

Radar plots representing country document type profiles in Science in year 2014.

Radar plots representing country document type profiles in PNAS in year 2014.

Radar plots representing document type profiles of India and South Africa in PNAS in years 2004, 2009, and 2014.

Science_ Numbers of publications by document type_

Year	Number of publications				Percentage

Document type	1999	2004	2009	2014	1999	2004	2009	2014
Article	893	873	843	769	32.8%	32.6%	33.5%	29.6%
Editorial Material	609	490	520	683	22.3%	18.3%	20.7%	26.2%
News Item	534	787	611	679	19.6%	29.3%	24.3%	26.1%
Letter	388	281	257	230	14.2%	10.5%	10.2%	8.8%
Book Review	93	102	117	117	3.4%	3.8%	4.7%	4.5%
Review	78	51	54	59	2.9%	1.9%	2.1%	2.3%
Correction	100	85	106	52	3.7%	3.2%	4.2%	2.0%
Biographical Item	7	12	8	13	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%
Software Review	24	1	0	0	0.9%	0.0%	0	0
Total	2,726	2,682	2,516	2,602	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

PNAS_ Numbers of publications by document type_

Year	Number of publications				Percentage

Document type	1999	2004	2009	2014	1999	2004	2009	2014
Article	2,603	3,077	3,759	3,586	92.1%	92.2%	89.1%	85.4%
Editorial Material	151	129	181	290	5.3%	3.9%	4.3%	6.9%
Letter	0	0	122	174	0	0	2.9%	4.1%
Correction	66	88	142	111	2.3%	2.6%	3.4%	2.6%
News Item	0	0	0	21	0	0	0	0.5%
Biographical Item	1	35	10	15	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.4%
Review	6	7	6	2	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
Total	2,827	3,336	4,220	4,199	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Nature: Similarity values for country document type profiles for pairs of years_

Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014	Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014
Australia	0.695	0.689	0.973	Netherlands	0.991	0.739	0.980
Brazil	0.944	0.989	0.996	P. R. China	0.667	0.508	0.887
Canada	0.920	0.950	0.919	Russia	0.741	0.943	0.844
France	0.987	0.946	0.912	South Africa	0.233	0.998	0.463
Germany	0.968	0.965	0.986	Switzerland	0.976	0.926	0.897
India	0.624	0.984	0.957	UK	0.992	0.995	0.989
Japan	0.936	0.989	0.844	USA	1.000	0.999	0.979

Science: Similarity values for country document type profiles for pairs of years_

Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014	Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014
Australia	0.647	0.961	0.983	Netherlands	0.897	0.888	0.953
Brazil	0.964	0.950	0.815	P. R. China	0.923	0.933	0.810
Canada	0.821	0.939	0.903	Russia	0.496	0.945	0.603
France	0.937	0.970	0.961	South Africa	0.952	0.955	0.989
Germany	0.926	0.970	0.991	Switzerland	0.911	0.950	0.906
India	0.642	0.545	0.957	UK	0.985	0.992	0.975
Japan	0.994	0.907	0.911	USA	0.995	0.998	0.995

Number of publication fractions of the 10 most productive countries and four BRICS countries in year 2014_

Countries	Number of publication fractions			Rank

	Nature	Science	PNAS	Nature	Science	PNAS
USA	807.4	872.1	2,261.8	1	1	1
UK	208.8	159.8	259.1	2	2	2
Germany	93.2	87.2	195.5	3	3	3
P. R. China	61.1	46.9	169.9	6	6	4
France	65.5	49.8	129.3	5	4	6
Canada	49.7	48.3	116.7	7	5	7
Japan	31.4	42.6	139.4	10	7	5
Australia	68.8	41.0	73.8	4	8	8
Switzerland	48.6	38.3	64.2	8	9	10
Netherlands	34.7	36.1	69.9	9	10	9
Brazil	8.8	9.4	13.1	19	18	24
India	6.0	6.3	12.2	25	21	25
Russia	7.3	3.4	7.2	21	28	30
South Africa	4.3	5.5	5.2	30	23	32

PNAS: Similarity values for country document type profiles for pairs of years_

Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014	Countries	1999 vs. 2004	2004 vs. 2009	2009 vs. 2014
Australia	0.601	0.711	0.973	Netherlands	0.773	0.371	0.968
Brazil	1.000	0.941	0.540	P. R. China	0.133	0.993	0.660
Canada	0.993	0.739	0.969	Russia	1.000	1.000	1.000
France	0.968	0.639	0.996	South Africa	1.000	0.169	0.042
Germany	0.992	0.660	0.979	Switzerland	0.998	0.736	0.721
India	1.000	0.138	0.114	UK	0.948	0.730	0.988
Japan	0.987	0.896	0.915	USA	1.000	0.879	1.000

Nature_ Numbers of publications by document type_

Year	Number of publications				Percentage

Document type	1999	2004	2009	2014	1999	2004	2009	2014
Editorial Material	574	660	780	833	19.1%	25.4%	30.7%	32.5%
Article	998	916	800	828	33.3%	35.2%	31.4%	32.3%
News Item	709	584	381	371	23.6%	22.4%	15.0%	14.5%
Letter	404	183	250	272	13.5%	7.0%	9.8%	10.6%
Correction	41	45	78	108	1.4%	1.7%	3.1%	4.2%
Book Review	232	180	169	102	7.7%	6.9%	6.6%	4.0%
Review	18	21	66	34	0.6%	0.8%	2.6%	1.3%
Biographical Item	21	14	19	13	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%
Reprint	3	0	1	0	0.1%	0	0.0%	0
Total	3,000	2,603	2,544	2,561	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

Number of publications of the journals_

	Year	1999		2004		2009		2014

Journal		All	With add.	All	With add.	All	With add.	All	With add.
Nature		3,000	2,014	2,603	1,766	2,544	1,666	2,561	1,708
Science		2,726	1,729	2,682	1,711	2,516	1,724	2,602	1,631
PNAS		2,827	2,759	3,336	3,208	4,220	4,078	4,199	3,998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20309/jdis.201618 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X

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Language: English

Page range: 27 - 41

Submitted on: Jun 12, 2016

Accepted on: Aug 17, 2016

Published on: Sep 1, 2017

Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

Document type profile,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

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Computer sciences,

Information technology,

Project management,

Databases and data mining

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