Contribution to a bibliometric analysis of the journal "Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute"

• Main Authors: TÖRÖK Liliana, TÖRÖK Zsolt Csaba
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: CITDD Publishing House 2012-09-01
• Series: Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute
• Subjects: scientific literature; data base; journal evolution; Danube Delta
• Online Access: http://www.ddni.ro/manager/editor/UserFiles/File/Scientific%20annals/volume/18/24.pdf

The Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, although evolved from an entity established in 1926, launched its first scientific journal in 1978, but the respective publication had irregular issuance. In 1993 the institute launched the first issue of a new periodical which nowadays is entitled “Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute”. In 1993 – 2011 period there were published 17 volumes and, excepting two years (2000 and 2001), the journal had a yearly issuance. Till 2011 there were published in the journal 774 articles, most of them (509 articles) in 1993 – 1999 period. A total number of 447 persons contributed (as single author, as first author or as co-author) with articles, most of the articles having one author (250 articles) or two authors (212 articles). Works written in Romanian were the most frequent ones (449 articles – out of which 447 were published till 1999, inclusively), meanwhile the works written in English are the second most frequent ones (319 articles – out of which 263 published since 2002, inclusively). The average length of the articles published in 1993 – 2011 period is 6.78, the highest average number of pages/article (12.93 pages/article) being recorded in case of the most recent volume (published in 2011).