Champion data comparison in nuclear research institutes in Europe, the U.S., and Japan

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

A consideration of nuclear knowledge management was made from the viewpoint research evaluation. This time, by using research papers stocked by JAERI (Present address: Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)) and 8 prestige foreign research institutes, an institutional comparison was performed by a bibliometric method. It is revealed 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. We found that the champion is ORNL during the period 1978-2002. JAERI is in the 2nd rank in INIS but 7th rank in ECD.