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Suggested Citation:"B. Status of United States Publications in the Solid-State Sciences." National Research Council. 1984. Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Materials. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10846.

APPENDIX B
STATUS OF UNITED STATES PUBLICATIONS IN THE SOLID-STATE SCIENCES

Documentation of the status of publications in the solid-state sciences can be obtained by searching the computer-compiled abstracting services. For this survey, a search was made of Physics Abstracts (produced by INSPEC). The objective was to compare the number of publications in the solid-state sciences from the United States and from U.S. universities with the total of such publications. A second objective was to see how many U.S. universities are active in the solid-state sciences.

Tables B.1–B.4 compare the number of publications in the solid-state sciences from the U.S. universities with all publications in the solid-state sciences. In Table B.5, the universities that contributed more than 20 publications to the five selected journals considered in Table B.3 were identified. All of these searches cover 1977–1979.

These data suggest that U.S. universities contribute only a small fraction of the total publications in the solid-state sciences (ranging from about 3 percent in Table B.1 to 9.5 percent in Table B.4 to 27 percent in Table B.3); U.S. contributions in other disciplines are higher (^~50% for publications in Physical Review, excluding Section B).

The tabulation of universities in Table B.5 also suggests that much of the U.S. effort in solid-state sciences comes from a few major centers.

It should be noted that these data are biased in favor of U.S. universities since only English language journals are compared.

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TABLE B.1 Contributions to the Solid State Sciences Literature^a.

Publications	Number	Normalized
Total publications	32,867	1
United States	7,086	0.22
U.S. universities	1,003	0.03
^aPublications listed in Sections 60 (Condensed Matter: Structure, Thermal and Mechanical Properties), 70 (Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties), and 81 (Materials Science) of Physics Abstracts.

TABLE B.2 Publications in Physical Review, excluding Section B

Publications	Number	Normalized
Total Publications	5,580	1
United States	3,754	0.67
U.S. universities	2,551	0.46

TABLE B.3. Contributions to the Publications, Solid State Communications, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Materials Research Bulletin, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, and Physical Review, Section B

Publications	Number	Normalized
Total Publications	4,756	1
United States	2,133	0.45
U.S. universities	1,268	0.27
United States not corporations	1,600	0.34

TABLE B.4 A Search for the Key Phrase “Solid State” in Physics Abstracts

Publications	Number	Normalized
Total Publications	4,432	1
United States	1,191	0.27
U.S. universities	423	0.095

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TABLE B.5 The 11 Universities with 20 or More Contributions in the Publications Listed in Table B.3

University	Number
University of California, Berkeley	51
California Institute of Technology	33
University of Chicago	36
Cornell University	41
Harvard University	22
University of Illinois	78
University of California, Los Angeles	40
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	56
Northwestern University	31
University of California, San Diego	31
Stanford University	25
Total	444^a
^aThese 444 publications are 35 percent of the publications from U.S. universities cited in Table B.3.