International channel of communication of biophysics literature

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Tracing the history of biophysics literature presents an analysis of 3515 citations published in 438 journals taking Annual Review of Biophysics Vol. 7 (1978) - Vol. 8 (1979) as source. The analysis reveals that 82.3% citations (i.e. 2893) are covered by first 100 journals and the rest of 17.7% citations (i.e. 624) are covered by the remaining 338 journals. Further analysis shows that primary journals account of 83.2% citations, non-primary serials cover 6.1% and non-serial publications account for the remaining 10.7% citations. A ranked-list of first 100 journals form the main communication channels and amongst other channels biochemistry journals dominate over other subjects. With regard to scatter 60% of significant literature of biophysics is covered by the first 25 journals only and the rest by 413 periodicals. The findings thus prove the validity of Sengupta's Law of Bibliometrics.</span>