Ex-post evaluation by bibliometric method; Institutional comparison among 9 resembled foreign research institutes by using the Energy Citation Database (ECD)

Yanagisawa, Kazuaki

From a viewpoint of ex-post evaluation, research papers published from nine resembled nuclear research institutes located in Japan, the U. S. A. Germany and France were compared by a bibliometric method. A research database used was the Energy Citation Database (ECD) owned by USDOE. For institutional comparison, the following results are obtained; (1)ECD shows that a total number of research papers published during 25 years (1978-2002) was of the order of the ORNL (34,149 papers)SNLANLBNLIdaho (KarlsruheJAERIJeulichCadarache). Where, INIS shows it as ORNLJAERI. (2)ECD founds that research papers at a five-year period varied those numbers. At past (10), thus 1988-1992, paper reduction occurred sharply at most US-institutes.