Web-Resources in Inspec Database: A Scientometric Mapping

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyse the growth and development of web-resources in INSPEC database during 1995-2005. A total of 18673 publications appeared in 171 web-resources contributed by the scientists in various areas of research: Physics (11076), Computers-and-Control-Technology (5524), Electrical-and- Electronic-Engineering (2050) and Information Technology (23). The highest number of publications in web-resources in INSPEC database were from USA with 8364 (44.79%) publications followed by Italy with 4342 (23.25%) publications and UK with 1967 (10.53%) publications. The publications in web-resources have started appearing in the INSPEC database since 1995 with six publications. The highest number of publications in web-resources published were 3603 in 2003. The average number of publications in webresources published per year were 1698. The top websites were http://jhep.cern.ch with 2798 publications followed by http://www.siam.org with 2744 publications and http://www.opticsexpress.org with 1962 publications. The websites with the domain name .org have published 9645 followed by .ch with 2902 publications and .it with 1544 publications. More than 99.3 percent of publications in web-resources were in English. More than 92.1 percent of the publications in web-resources were published in journals followed by conference papers (7.9%). The most preferred web-journals by the scientists were JHEP-Journal-of-High- Energy-Physics with 4342 publication followed by Optics-Express with 2513 publications and Physical- Review-Special-Topics-Accelerators-and-Beams with 507 publications.