Call for Abstracts: The Third ISIE Asia-Pacific Meeting 2012 Asia-Pacific Toward Eco-Industrial Development Beijing, China October 20–21, 2012 http://www.cern.org.cn We invite you to join us in the Third ISIE Asia-Pacific Meeting and the ISIE EID-ConAccount Meeting 2012 in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China on October 20–21, 2012. The main objective of the Asia-Pacific ISIE Meeting series is to promote communication, collaboration, and network among academia, industry, and government, whose members are interested in applying industrial ecology in the Asia-Pacific region. The most recent research and practical progress of the region’s eco-industrial development will be fully exchanged and discussed in this coming Meeting. On October 19 right before the Meeting, the 9th Annual Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium will take place in Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), about 150 km southeast to Beijing. The main theme of the third Meeting is Asia-Pacific Toward Eco-Industrial Development. Topics of the Meeting include: 1. Industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial development (EID) 2. Industrial metabolism and material flows analysis (MFA) 3. Life-cycle assessment and product footprint (LCA) 4. Environmentally extended input-output analysis and sustainable consumption (EIO) 5. Sustainable urban systems and infrastructure (SUS) 6. Energy conservation, pollution reduction and cleaner production (ECP) 7. Waste recycling and management (WRM) 8. Complex systems and agent modeling (CSA) 9. Policy intervention and planning (PIP) 10. Industrial ecology education (IEE) Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts at http://www.cern.org.cn Deadline to submit abstracts: April 15, 2012. For more information or send email inquiries to ISIE@tsinghua.edu.cn
根据汤姆逊-路透( Thomson Reuters )2011年3月27日公布的统计结果,亚太地区2000年元月至2010年12月底在国际重要期刊(即ISI Web of Knowledge数据库的收录期刊 )中发表化学论文在3000篇以上地区或国家中,中国(含港澳台)的发表论文总数名列第一,总数为201537篇,其中台湾省为20041篇,被引频次总数最多的也是中国,累计被引1432348篇次,但是篇均被引频次最高的是新加坡,篇均被引12.83次,全球排名第12;其次是澳大利亚,篇均被引12.44次,全球排名16;日本在亚太地区位于第三,篇均被引11.78次,全球排名19;前三甲篇均被引频次均超过全球篇均被引频次(11.19次/篇)。中国篇均7.11次,全球排名在30名之后,但是台湾省的篇均被引频次远高于大陆(包括港澳地区),台湾省为9.32次/篇,位于全球第26名;而大陆(包括港澳地区)只有6.86次/篇,全球排名49。 在过去30年之间(1981-2010),亚太地区的化学论文数量翻了一番多,从1981年占全球总数的19%上升到2010年的43%,在此期间,中国大陆(包括港澳地区)的贡献巨大,从1981年占全球总数的0.3%,到2010年年底已经超过20%,令人遗憾的就是数量的增长速度与质量的提高幅度有些不对称,篇均被引频次就是最好的例子。 详细统计结果见下面汤姆逊-路透( Thomson Reuters )的报道: Ranking of Asia-Pacific Nationsor Regionsin Chemistry, 2000-2010 Ranked by citation impact, among those publishing 3,000 or more papers. A-P Rank World Rank Region Papers Citations Citations Per Paper 1 12 Singapore 7,596 97,454 12.83 2 16 Australia 19,131 237,923 12.44 3 19 Japan 115,760 1,363,434 11.78 * * WORLD 1,197,020 13,394,419 11.19 4 23 New Zealand 3,257 34,755 10.67 5 24 South Korea 36,557 360,424 9.86 6 26 Taiwan 20,041 186,746 9.32 7 37 Thailand 3,955 27,730 7.01 8 38 India 64,903 451,536 6.96 9 39 China 181,496 1,245,602 6.86 10 45 Malaysia 5,365 22,461 4.19 SOURCE: Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators SM database, January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2010. The Asia-Pacific region has become the dominant producer of research papers in chemistry. The region now contributes some 43% of those published in the internationally influential journals indexed by Thomson Reuters. While the Asia-Pacific world share in the field has more than doubled in the past three decades (up from 19% in 1981), the world shares in chemistry for the European Union and for the United States have dropped significantly since the mid-1990s and now stand at 32% and 18%, respectively. Much of the Asia-Pacific region’s dramatic rise can be attributed to China, whose output in chemistry increased from a world share of .3% in 1981 to just over 20% now. While China takes the spotlight in terms of increased output in chemistry, within the Asia-Pacific region it is Singapore that excels in research impact, as measured by average citations to its chemistry papers. The table above lists the Asia-Pacific nations that published at least 3,000 papers in chemistry journals during 2000-2010, and ranks these nations or regionby citations per paper. This weighted measure allows for the analysis of large and smaller producers together. Despite its relatively small production, Singapore tops the ranking. At 12.83 citations per paper, Singapore’s papers were cited at a level 15% above the world average of 11.19. That also earned Singapore a rank of 12th globally. During 2000-2010, Singapore published 100 chemistry papers that qualified as highly cited, meaning that for their field and year of publication they ranked in the top 1% by total citations. Of the 100, the National University of Singapore (NUS) published 64, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) published 29, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) research institutes, including the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the Institute of Microelectronics, and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, published 23 (the total of these surpass 100 owing to co-authorship). The establishment of the A*STAR research institutes and the production of these 100 highly cited papers undoubtedly did much to increase the citation impact of Singapore in chemistry from 7% below world average at the beginning of the decade to 24% above world average currently. For this analysis, data were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters. This database, currently covering the period January 2000 through December 2010, surveys only articles (original research reports and review articles) in journals indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a field based on the journals in which they were published and Thomson Reuters journal-to-field scheme. Papers published in multidisciplinary journals such as Nature and Science are assigned to fields on an article-by-article basis. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. For articles with multiple authors from different nations or regions, each nation or region receives full, not fractional, publication and citation credit. See Essential Science Indicators SM from Thomson Reuters for more information. http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/11/mar27-11_1D/ This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine.