Current trends in gas chromatography methods and instrumentation: A scientometric study

Earlier analogous works deal with the period 1985-1991. Unlike previous wor ks, in this work we additionally determined the fractions of publications o n the most important compounds and mixtures within 1980-1998, Current trend s in instrument snaking in gas chromatography are considered in more detail ; references are given to the most important books and reviews published du ring this period. For the first time, the data is presented on the total nu mber of publications on the main methods during the whole period of the dev elopment of chromatography. The total of obtained data made it possible to reveal topical directions of the development of the theory, fields of application, and instrumentation of gas chromatograph. This information will be useful for planning new theo retical and applied works and for the prediction of new developments in the field of gas-chromatographic instrument making. The distribution of publications over different chromatography methods was taken from bibliographic indices published in J. Chromatogr, Bibliography S ection in 1981-1998. Table 1 for the first time presents the data on the total number of publica tions on main chromatography methods. The data on publications in 1944-1966 were taken from [3]; the other were taken from bibliographic indices of ar ticles published in 1966-1998.