Trends of Papers Published from 2006 to 2010 in Journals Nature and Science

摘要

We present an analysis of the papers published in the journals Nature andScience in the years from 2006 to 2010. During this period, a total of 7788papers were published in the two journals. This includes 544 astronomy papersthat comprise 7.0% of the papers in `all' research fields and 18.9% of those inthe fields of `physical sciences'. The sub-fields of research of the astronomypapers are distributed, in descending order of number of papers, in SolarSystem, stellar astronomy, galaxies and the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, andexoplanets. The observational facilities used for the studies are mainlyground-based telescopes (31.1%), spacecrafts (27.0%), and space telescopes(22.8%), while 16.0% of papers did not use any noticeable facilities and 1.7%used other facilities. Korean scientists have published 86 papers (33 in Natureand 53 in Science), which is 1.10% of all the papers (N=7788) in the twojournals. The share of papers by Korean astronomers among the scientific papersby Koreans is 8.14%, slightly higher than the contribution of astronomy papers(7.0%) in both journals.