Friends: Greetings from Chennai. Here is some informtion obtained from Chemical Abstracts Service on the contributions made by different countries to the journal literature abstracted in CA during 2004. USA 23.2%, People's Republic of China 12%, Japan 11.8% Germany 6.2%, UK 4.6%, France 3.7%, Russia 3.7% Italy 3.1%, INDIA 2.6%, Canada 2.5%, S.Korea 2.4%. China is second only to USA in the number of journal papers and India is 9th. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Friends: Greetings from Chennai. Here is some informtion obtained from Chemical Abstracts Service on the contributions made by different countries to the journal literature abstracted in CA during 2004. USA 23.2%, People's Republic of China 12%, Japan 11.8% Germany 6.2%, UK 4.6%, France 3.7%, Russia 3.7% Italy 3.1%, INDIA 2.6%, Canada 2.5%, S.Korea 2.4%. China is second only to USA in the number of journal papers and India is 9th. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]