Bibliographical approach to the scientific production on marine : technology indexed in Web of Science database (1995-2005)

3. Conclusions From the bibliometrical analysis, we conclude: •Existence of a strong dispersion of published works about marine technology. Probably, this concept is not fully adopted and consequently, these terms are not included in all these works. •Identification of the main journals, the core collection on this subject. •Identification of the main research centers and the most relevant authors. 4. References J-P. Courtial. “Introduction à la Scientométrie : de la bibliométrie à la veille technologique ». Paris : Anthropos, cop. 1990. ISBN 27178-1935-5. P.G. Dastidar, “Engineering research in ocean sector: an international profile”. Scientometrics, vol. 65, no. 2 (2005) 199213. F. Moya-Anegón, et al. “Atlas de la ciencia española : propuesta de un sistema de información científica”. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, vol. 27, nº 1 (2004) 11-29 M.A. Zulueta, A Cabrero, M Bordons. “Identificación y estudio de grupos de investigación a través de los indicadores bibliométricos”. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, vol. 23, nº 3 (1999) 333-347 Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Observatori de la publicació científica de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: maig 2005. http://bibliotecnica.upc.es/observatori/ Instrumentation ViewPoint. Autumn 2005 76 1. Introduction The application of bibliometry in the scientific production developed for the last ten years in the field of marine technology allows us to know which authors and institutions lead the development of this speciality. Moreover, the result of this analysis identifies the most important scientific journals for publishing works on this subject. To carry out this analysis it has been interrogated the Web of Science database, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). This database includes the bibliographic records of what is considered the most relevant worldwide technical and scientific literature. This relevance index is fixed by the impact index of all the articles published in 8.000 scientific journals. Our bibliographic research has been obtained searching these keywords “marine technology” and “engineering ocean”, but, in order to identify the whole existing literature in the database about this subject, a second search has been executed with other synonyms and related words. To determine the pertinence of the results retrieved in Web of Science and to detect possible deviations, we have carried out another similar search in the Scopus database, produced by Elsevier. This database analyses a total of 14.200 journals and although it does not work with impact indexes, it shows the publication frequency in a specific subject, for an author, institution or publication. 2. Results and Discussion The results we have achieved show which authors and institutions are more relevant in this subject as well as which scientific publications, analyzed by Web of Science, contain works on marine technology. Bibliographical approach to the scientific production on marine technology indexed in Web of Science database (1995-2005) Margarita Ceña Cosials, Maria Hortènsia Alvárez Suau, Josep Vives i Gràcia Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Biblioteca EPSEVG. Rambla Exposició, 37. 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona, Catalunya). +34 93 896 77 12 [email protected] Figure 1. Institutions with more publications in marine technology. Figure 2. More outstanding scientific Publications in marine technology..