Comparative study of scientific journals and reading, publishing and referencing habits of scientists. Part II. Scientometric study based on data obtained from members of working committees of Committee for Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Members of the working committees of Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry were put questions as follows: which periodicals do they read, reference and appreciate and in which journals do they publish? 118 answers were received. It has been revealed thai the different journal sets (e.g. journals referenced and journals used for publication) of researchers working on the same subfield (e.g. theoretical chemistry or reaction kinetics and photochemistry) show great resemblance, whereas journals e.g. referenced by researchers working on different subfields are very different. Results show that physical chemistry would be rather inhomogeneous from informatical points. Study on Garfield impact factors (i.f.) of journals shows that the mean i.f. of journals sur-veyed and referenced is greater than that of periodicals used for publishing.