A study on international comparison of scientific research activities, based on statistical processing for the abstracting and indexing databases

本研究旨在对通过系统检索著名的科技论文摘要和标引数据库所得到的索引进行国际比较。这项研究还包括一项关于欧洲和北美科学数据库的汇编和传播现状的调查。将对结果进行分析，以澄清研究活动与研究中应建立或利用的科学数据库之间的关系。摘要数据库收录论文数量统计调查结果显示，1976年至1993年，日本的论文数量不断增加，使日本在科学、工程和医学的26个领域均居世界第二，在医学的其他3个领域居世界第三。20世纪90年代，日本论文在世界上的份额在许多领域都达到了10%以上。然而，日本论文的被引率却不高。更多的调查似乎是足够的，为了分析日本论文的国际化，我们进行了另一项调查，调查了以日语为主的日本社会期刊论文的被引率。对西方科学数据库的调查表明，许多数据库都是由研究人员自己构建的。这主要是由于近年来研究人员之间的互联网连接作为信息渠道的发展。由于这意味着研究活动与数据库建设的整合，因此我们对NSF和NIH资助项目的数据库相关费用占研究总预算的比例进行了抽样调查。这一预算指数将与日本的情况形成对比。最近数据库建设的分散化趋势使得数据库的标准化变得更加重要，并收集了西方标准化的相关案例。在这些调查中，获得了有助于促进日本科学研究的统计数据和材料，并继续对其进行进一步分析。少

This study intends to make an international comparison of the indexes which would be derived from searching systematically the prominent abstracting and indexing databases for scientific papers. The study also includes a survey on the current situation of compilation and dissemination of scientific databases in Europe and North America. The results would be analyzed to clarify the relationship of research activities to the scientific databases which shoud be created or utilized in the research.The results of statistical survey of number of papers registered in abstracting databases show that the papers from Japan have been continuously increasing from 1976 through 1993, so as to make Japan the world second biggest country in all of 26 fields of science, engineering and medicine, while in the other 3 fields in medicine, Japan is ranked as the 3rd. Shares of Japanese papers in the world total have reached over 10% in many fields in 1990s. However, the citations to Japanese papers do not … More appear to be sufficient, and the other survey was conducted, in which citations in papers of Japanese society journals mainly written in Japanese language were investigated, in order to analyze internationallization of Japanese Papers.The survey for scientific databases in the West shows that many databases have become constructed by researchers themselves. This should be mainly attributed to the recent development of the internet connections among researchers as the information channel. As this denotes consolidation of research activities with database construction, a sample survey on ratio of database related expense in total research budget for the projects subsidized by NSF and NIH was conducted. This budgetary index would be contrasted with the Japanese situation. The recent trend towards decentralization of database construction makes standardization for databases far more important, and the relevant cases of standardization in the West have been gathered. In these surveys, statistics and materials useful for the promotion of scientific research in Japan were obtained, and the further analysis for them is continued. Less