Citation Environment of Angewandte Chemie

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the citation environment of Angewandte Chemie using journal-journal citation networks, revealing its field embeddedness and comparing impacts of its German and international editions.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of Angewandte Chemie's citation environment using social network analysis techniques, comparing it with the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Findings

Angewandte Chemie has a distinct citation environment reflecting its field embeddedness.

The impact of German and international editions of Angewandte Chemie differ significantly.

The study provides detailed visualization of the journal's citation network environment.

Abstract

Recently, aggregated journal-journal citation networks were made accessible from the perspective of each journal included in the Science Citation Index see (http://www.leydesdorff.net/). The local matrices can be used to inspect the relevant citation environment of a journal using statistical analysis and visualization techniques from social network analysis. The inspection gives an answer to the question what the local impact of this and other journals in the environment is. In this study the citation environment of Angewandte Chemie was analysed. Angewandte Chemie is one of the prime chemistry journals in the world. Its environment was compared with that of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The results of the environment analyses give a detailed insight into the field-embeddedness of Angewandte Chemie. The impacts of the German and international editions of this journal are compared.