Chemistry Reference
In-Depth Information
Congress
communications
Publications
Congress
communications
Patents
Publications
Original papers in
Scientific journals
Review articles
Publications
Publications
Books
Figure 4.1
Diffusion channels of the new developments in Analytical Chemistry.
community and in this task the available scientific databases are the main tools to access to such knowledge.
However, nowadays we must consider also internet channels as a fast and easily accessible way which has an
increased importance in the diffusion of scientific results.
4.1
A bibliometric study of the literature in Green Analytical Chemistry
We have evaluated the use of green analytical terms in the scientific literature using the databases included in
the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (previously named ISI Web of Knowledge).
As in Figure 4.2, in the period from 1970 until May 2011 we have found 87 published papers which
include the main terms
Green Analytical Chemistry
,
Green Analytical Methods
or, more generically,
green
methods
. The aforementioned terms were introduced in 1999, 2004 and 2007, respectively.
On the other hand, the inclusion of terms, such as
environmentally friendly methods
,
clean methods
,
sustainable methods
and the associated terms linked to analytical chemistry increases the number of papers
related to greening analytical procedures to 149, thus evidencing that, especially in former times from 1995
till 2003, there was a general agreement on the terminology to be used for describing efforts to reduce the
deleterious environmental side effects of the development and application of analytical procedures. So, we
could conclude that it is absolutely vital to homogenize the terminology to be used in titles, abstracts, and
keywords, if we would like the efforts of the analytical community in this field to be visible.
Considering the journals in which the green analytical papers were published (see Table 4.1) it can be
appreciated that they correspond to journals devoted to general analytical chemistry (
Analytica Chimica Acta
,
Talanta
,
TrAC-Trends in Analytical Chemistry
and
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
), chromatography
(
Journal of Chromatography A
and
Chromatographia
), spectroscopy (
Spectroscopy Letters
) in addition to
electronalytical journals, national journals, education, food and environmental journals.
The most productive authors in the field have been listed in Table 4.2, indicating the number of published
papers in the considered period of time which include the selected extended keywords and as it can be seen,
Spanish and Brazilian together with Polish authors have been in the most involved teams up until this moment.
