CITATION ANALYSIS OF ISI - INDEXED PUBLICATIONS FROM THAILAND

PINTIP RUENWONGSA AND BHINYO PANIJPAN

ABSTRACT: Publications with a Thailand address(es) during 1981-1995 found in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database were analyzed. The present work emphasizes (i) number of citations and cites/paper of top - ranked research institutions which include more than state universities: the top three are Mahidol University, Ministry of Public Health and Chulalongkorn University i (ii) citation performance of subdivisions of these institutions: faculties of medicine are the major contributors i (iii) number of 65 - most cited authors (together with their affiliations) in each citation category i (iv) citation distribution of research institutions, i.e., percentage of papers vs. number of citations : 70% of Thailand papers have 0-2 cites i (v) type of publications and the respective citations: 74% of them are research articles with an average cites/paper of 4.16. The dependence on foreign authors and the latter's contribution to citation performance is discussed. It is recommended that number of papers and citations/paper should be used more seriously in bestowing awards, prizes and ranks to relatively independent Thai authors.

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Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400,Thailand.

Received February 15, 1996