The JRNC is an international publication, both in distribution and authorship. In 2003, the top 10 countries contributing to the journal were as follows: Japan, China, India, USA, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Pakistan, and Russia, according to an in-house report compiled for the editorial board meeting at the Modern Trends in Activation Analysis-11 Conference (Guildford, UK, 2004). These authors come from universities, research institutes, state-run institutes, enterprises, academies, medical institutions, international institutions, and the private sector.

The JRNC’s Impact Factor for 2003 was 0.472. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the JRNC published 435 original articles in the year 2003.

The graphs at the bottom of the page detail the citing trends of the JRNC according to ISI Essential Science Indicators.

The JRNC was founded in 1968 by its present Editor-in-Chief and Akadémiai Kiadó, the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. This publisher has had many partners over the years—e.g., Elsevier, Kluwer, and, at present, Springer. The members of the Editorial Board (the gatekeepers of the journals) were and are selected from the most eminent experts of their research topics worldwide. According to Editor-in-Chief Tibor Braun, in 1997, two changes were made at the JRNC. The first was a format change: new typeface, layout, etc., which augmented the aesthetic and functional quality of the journal as a whole. The second change involved the merging of the journal’s Articles and Letters editions. The journal is now published in 12 monthly issues per year, with four volumes published in three monthly issues, on a total of approximately 2,800 A4 pages. The frequency of publication also means a quick turnaround in terms of article review and acceptance.

At the Modern Trends in Activation Analysis-11 Conference, Dr. Braun offered the following remarks about scientific publications in general and about the JRNC in particular:

"Modern science has developed a particular mechanism of communication which began with the appearance of the first scientific journals in the 17th century and which remained basically the same ever since. Briefly, this mechanism is based on the selective publication of fragments rather than complete treatises. It is this selective concern with fragments of knowledge, represented primarily by journal articles, that enables science to function effectively and is responsible for its phenomenal growth and pre-eminence.

"The fact that a paper has been accepted for publication in the JRNC is probably the best immediate indication that it reports worthwhile research, even though we know that the great majority of papers that satisfy this criterion will not be recognized as significant contribution to science ten years later. I am duly hoping that the Members of our Editorial Board will share the abovementioned."

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Tibor Braun, Editor-in-Chief
Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Akadémiai Kiadó Rt., Budapest, publishers   

Graphs for the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Number of Papers (In 5-year Intervals): How to read this data Number of Citations (In 5-year Intervals): How to read this data Average Citations per Paper (In 5-year Intervals): How to read this data SOURCE: ISI Essential Science Indicators Web based product from the January 1, 2005 update covering a ten- year plus ten month period, January 1994 - October 31, 2004.