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Dissertation Information for Choon Shil Lee

NAME:
- Choon Shil Lee

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Chicago (USA) (1994)

ADVISORS:
- Don R. Swanson

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Abraham Bookstein
- Victor H. Yngve

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Medical papers published by Korean scientists during the 1980s: A comparison with chemistry

Abstract: This study assesses the status, impact and utility of Korean medical literature in world science in so far as it can be measured by or inferred from publication output and citation data of Korean medical papers published during the 1980s. Research took two directions. First, publication output and citation data of Korean medical papers published in non-Korean SCI source journals (mainstream non-Korean journal papers) were compared to those of papers published in Korean journals indexed by MEDLINE and/or EMBASE (mainstream Korean journal papers) and to those of papers not indexed by any of these three databases (non-mainstream papers). Second, Korean medical papers and researchers were compared to chemistry papers and chemists. The second comparison tested the influence of educational background on publication practice: almost all of the medical researchers completed their education in Korea, but a large proportion of chemists were educated outside of Korea.

The findings show not only that a larger number of SCI papers were published during the 1980s in chemistry than in medicine, but also that mainstream publication activity, measured by proportion of mainstream papers among all papers published by Korean researchers, mainstream paper production rate per faculty member, growth rate, percentage contribution to SCI database, etc., were much stronger in chemistry than in medicine. Major differences in the rates of citedness between mainstream and non-mainstream, and Korean journal and non-Korean journal papers were observed in both medicine and chemistry. It is shown that there is a correlation between the researchers' educational background and their production of mainstream publications. Mainstream medical research conducted in Korea during the 1980s relied on a few very active researchers who had foreign Ph.D. degrees in non-medical sciences and were not affiliated with medical colleges. In contrast, the contribution of medical doctors to the mainstream was much less evident. The clearly superior publication activity of Korean chemistry in the mainstream is supported by a larger base of chemists trained abroad who published one or two papers a piece.

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:15:27

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