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Table 2. Top Published Individuals in Korea for the Period 2013−2018 and Their Top Cited Paper
n this Virtual Issue, I want to highlight physical chemistry in South Korea, which is now a major contributor of articles published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, B, C or Letters (here denoted JPC). Indeed over 200 papers are published each year in which the principal author has a Korean address, and this number has been consistently achieved since 2008. Over 3300 papers have been published overall, including one from North Korea. However, there were no papers published before 1973, and the rapid rise to 200 only occurred starting in the mid-1990s. The first paper from Korea was by Jae Shi Choi, Hoo Young Lee, and Keu Hong Kim at Yonsei University (JPC, 77, 2430) concerning the electrical conductivities of nickel oxide−magnesium oxide single crystals. Choi was one of the early active researchers in Korea, and he published not only the first paper in JPC but all of the papers published during 1973−1981. Other early authors included Talkye Ree and Mu Shik Jhon from KAIST, who studied zeolites and silica. The highest cited paper from a Korean institution is a paper published in 1999 (J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 7743) by R. Ryoo, S. H. Joo, and S. Jun from KAIST concerning the synthesis of carbon-based molecular sieves. Second on the list is a paper by Nam-Gyu Park from Sungkyunkwan University in 2013 (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 2423) concerning perovskite solar cells. Note that one paper by Wonyong Choi (Pohang University) in 1994 (J. Phys. Chem. 98, 13669) has a citation count even higher than those mentioned above, but the address given is that for M. R. Hoffmann at Caltech. Table 1 presents the top 10 universities in Korea, based on the number of papers published in JPC from the beginning.
Korea Univ Sungkyunkwan Univ
Cho, Minhaeng Choi, Cheol Ho Choi, Jungkweon Han, Sang Soo Heo, Nam Ho Jang, Joonkyung Ihee, Hyotcherl Kang, Heon
Korea Univ Kyungpook Natl Univ
Kang, Yong Soo Kim, Dongho Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Joonghan Kim, Kwang S. Lee, Huen Lee, Jin Yong Park, Nam-Gyu Park, Sungnam
DOI: 10.1021/jp412744p DOI: 10.1021/ acs.jpclett.6b02763 DOI: 10.1021/jz400954r DOI: 10.1021/jp400180x
Inst for Basic Sci (IBS) Korea KIST Kyungpook Natl Univ Pusan Univ
DOI: 10.1021/jp511229t
KAIST Seoul Natl Univ Hangyang Univ
DOI: 10.1021/jp312559h DOI: 10.1021/ acs.jpcc.5b07525 DOI: 10.1021/jz5011187
Yongsei Univ KAIST Catholic Univ Korea UNIST KAIST Sungkyunkwan Univ Sungkyunkwan Univ Korea Univ
DOI: DOI: DOI: DOI: DOI: DOI: DOI: DOI:
DOI: 10.1021/jp5110938 DOI: 10.1021/jp501826x DOI: 10.1021/jp502707d
10.1021/jz501953a 10.1021/jp5026762 10.1021/jp4074398 10.1021/jp509188h 10.1021/jp5026762 10.1021/jp408473k 10.1021/jz400892a 10.1021/jz400954r
the corresponding author address associated with the paper is in Korea, and in most of the papers, all of the authors are located in Korea. There have been three Editorial Advisory Board members from Korea, as follows: Donho Kim, Yonsei University, 2008−2010, 2015−2017 Wonyong Choi, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2009−2011 Kwang S. Kim, Ulsan National Institute of Technology (UNIST), 2007−2008 In addition, Kwang S. Kim was a Senior Editor for the journal, 2015−2017. One can see from this report that there is a lot of activity in JPC A/B/C and JPCL coming from Korea. We look forward to further and stronger interactions.
Table 1. Top 10 Institutions in Korea for Number of Papers Published in JPC (for the Period 1970−2018) University of Science and Technology (UST) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Seoul National University Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea University Yonsei University Sungkyunkwan University Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Hanyang University Pusan National University
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These universities have published between 130 and 440 papers, indicating that there is a broad distribution of published papers among the various institutions. Korean last names are very commonly Kim, Lee, and Park, so it comes as no surprise that the top published authors from Korea have the names Kim, Lee, and Park. This also indicates the challenge associated with identifying the top published individuals from Korea, but in Table 2, I have listed what I think are the top published individuals for the period 2013−2018, and I also provide the top cited papers of these individuals. Some of these papers involve coauthors from outside Korea, but in all cases © 2018 American Chemical Society
Cho, Dae Won Cho, Jeong Ho
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