Educational knowledge retention in nuclear research institutes in Japan, the U.S. and Europe

Yanagisawa, Kazuaki; Cutler, D.*; Brulet, C.*

A valuable and retainable knowledge born by a result of research activity in a nuclear institute should be stocked explicitly in the form of research paper. This time, by using research papers stocked by JAERI (Present address: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)) and 8 resembled foreign research institutes, an institutional comparison was performed by a bibliometric method. It is revealed from the present bibliometric study that a nuclear knowledge in JAERI and 8 resembled foreign research institutes is retained successfully not only in INIS but also in ECD over 50 years. The retained knowledge is revealed to be useful for executing an institutional comparison. Within the present scope one concludes that the champion between JAERI and 8 resembled foreign research institutes is ORNL during the period 1978-2002. JAERI is in the 2nd position in INIS but is in the 7th position in ECD.