The Literature of Chemoinformatics: 1978-2018.

This article presents a study of the literature of chemoinformatics, updating and building upon an analogous bibliometric investigation that was published in 2008. Data on outputs in the field, and citations to those outputs, were obtained by means of topic searches of the . The searches demonstrate that chemoinformatics is by now a well-defined sub-discipline of chemistry, and one that forms an essential part of the chemical educational curriculum. There are three core journals for the subject: The , the , and , and, having established itself, chemoinformatics is now starting to export knowledge to disciplines outside of chemistry.