摘要

A bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index Expanded from Web of Science was studied for research activities of the global metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) from 1995 to 2014. Study emphases included document types, languages, performance of publication covering annual outputs, journals, Web of Science categories, countries, and institutions. Six publication indicators including total, independent, collaborative, first authored, and corresponding authored, and single authored publications were used to evaluate publications of countries. China took a leading position of 75 countries while articles published by the USA had higher impact. An indicator SIN, a proportion of single institution articles:internationally collaborative articles:nationally collaborative articles (S:I:N) was applied to compare and describe institutions' publication characteristics. Based on number of citations since papers published to the end of the last year, citations per publication and h-index for highly-cited articles were compared. In addition, Yaghi's group published the first article in the MOFs field and they contributed eight of the top ten leading articles in 2014.