Walter de Gruyter GmbH Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

Walter de Gruyter GmbH has published 2102673 documents so far, receiving a total of 2952450 citations. These numbers are equal to 1.71% and 0.27% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. Walter de Gruyter GmbH has a score of 1.40 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, Monograph, and Book Series a with the total document number of 839217, 1134673, 46136, 2908, 36985, 42527, and 227 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 39.91%, 53.96%, 2.19%, 0.14%, 1.76%, 2.02%, and 0.01% of the total documents published in Walter de Gruyter GmbH so far, respectively. Walter de Gruyter GmbH has been an active publisher from 1708-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of Walter de Gruyter GmbH over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of Walter de Gruyter GmbH documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. Walter de Gruyter GmbH has the highest annual number of publications in 2020, with 145569 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 8737 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.06.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of Walter de Gruyter GmbH are presented by document type, including Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess.

The number of published documents by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 1134673, 839217, 46136, 42527, 36985, and 227 for Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess, respectively. These numbers are equal to 7.18%, 0.92%, 2.11%, 7.31%, 4.17%, and 7.45% of the whole published Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess of Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 143133, 2241226, 203, 502416, 65322, and 75, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.89%, 0.21%, 0.13%, 9.03%, 0.86%, and 1.02% of the citations received by whole Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 80, 252, 5, 268, 87, and 5, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 588, 3201, 98, 760, 793, and 33, respectively.

The g-index value for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 15, 31, 4, 36, 16, and 3, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 48, 129, 20, 60, 60, and 10, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 0.126, 2.671, 0.004, 11.814, 1.766, and 0.330, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 1.016, 11.521, 0.070, 9.566, 8.593, and 2.404, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 111498, 33369, 25091, 1545, 1480, and 60, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess are 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2020, and 2010, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess published in Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 11122, 70337, 134, 14498, 2201, and 28, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess are 2012, 2012, 2016, 2010, 2013, and 2010, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess published in Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 0.18, 3.62, 0.01, 16.09, 2.21, and 0.47, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Chapters, Journal Articles, Datasets, Monographs, Books, and Book Seriess are 2011, 2010, 2016, 2010, 2013, and 2010, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, are 349, 131, and 77, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH are 40, 21, and 14, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, are 67416, 21710, 7402, 2340, 567, 211, 75, 18, 6, and 2, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the Walter de Gruyter GmbH top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by Walter de Gruyter GmbH is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of Walter de Gruyter GmbH based on the number of published documents are Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, and Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – Crystalline Materials. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 30337, 19174, 15943, 13807, and 13234, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.443%, 0.912%, 0.758%, 0.657%, and 0.629% of the total documents published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of Walter de Gruyter GmbH are Pure and Applied Chemistry, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, and Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 10599, 19174, 13807, 30337, and 15943, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.359%, 0.649%, 0.468%, 1.028%, and 0.540% of the total citations received by Walter de Gruyter GmbH publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of Walter de Gruyter GmbH are Pure and Applied Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, and Botanica Marina. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 26.830, 15.402, 12.862, 11.429, and 10.403, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in Walter de Gruyter GmbH. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH are crystal structure, the impact, x ray, the world, case study, chapter 1, the future, in vitro, mechanical properties, and the mean, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 16064, 5833, 5566, 5475, 4368, 3952, 3810, 3665, 3068, and 2803, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH are crystal structure, x ray, in vitro, space group, mass spectrometry, single crystal, solid state, crystal structures, the impact, and amino acid, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 16064, 5566, 3665, 2464, 1984, 2222, 1531, 1668, 5833, and 1237, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH are oxidative stress, amino acid, solid state, space group, mass spectrometry, crystal structures, room temperature, molecular weight, aqueous solution, and low temperature, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 11.047, 9.728, 9.153, 8.215, 8.134, 7.762, 7.753, 7.568, 6.968, and 6.705, respectively.