Indian Research Output on Nuclear Medicine Literature: A Scientometric Analysis

• Thanuskodi Shanmugam*

Abstract

The present study is to analyze the scholar publications of nuclear medicine research for 30 years from 1991 to 2020. These study objectives to discover the list of most important journal publications, the growth rate, and the research productivity and contribution of authors and institutions. Every country, continent and a number of similar aspects nationally and internationally in nuclear medicine. The extracted data was in text format, analyzed according to the objectives of the study the use of Histcite, Microsoft-Excel suite and VOS viewer software, and presented as data tables and graphs. The study shows that the average share of Indian Nuclear Medicine Research output in the world share was 1.66% with 211 publications. It was noted that there were no contributions in the years 1991, 1992, 1994 and1997 ahead. The study also shows that the authorship pattern of Indian Publications in Nuclear Medicine research during the study period 1991-2020. The maximum number of research output made by three authored contributions is 32 (15.17%) publications followed by five authored contributions with 27 (12.80%) publications.

Keywords

Nuclear Medicine, Scientometric, Citation Analysis, Author Productivity, Bradford’s distribution and Geographical distribution.