Analysis on Outputs of Polysaccharide Characterization Research Papers Based on Web of ScienceTM

In order to know more about the overview of the global polysaccharide characterization research,we analyzed the outputs of polysaccharide characterization research articles based on Web of Science^TM database from 2008 to 2017.According to all the database of Web of Science^TM,"polysaccharide characterization" or "polysaccharide structure" as the title words of this paper were used to analyze the current situation and the trend of the research on polysaccharide characterization by bibliometrics methods,in terms of the output of papers,the countries/regions,scientific research institutions,journals,authors,citations and research direction.The results showed that the output of papers have been arised in the world.China was the leading country in the field of polysaccharide characterization.The published papers of the Russian Academy of Sciences toped the list.Chinese Academy of Sciences toped the list in domestic institutions.The authors who published the most amount of papers were from Russian Academy of Sciences.The journal of Britain’s "Carbohydrate Polymers" had the largest number of papers.The most cited paper was from University of Georgia.The direction of the research was mainly concentrated in biochemistry and molecular biology,chemistry and agriculture,and it embodied the highly interdisciplinary nature.There were homology on polysaccharide characterization analysis methods in different countries,compared with China,the United States,Russia and Britain are more cutting edge on the application of polysaccharide.