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Research Paper | Medical Science | India | Volume 13 Issue 1, January 2024

Scientific Productivity of the Nuclear Medicine Literature: A Scientometric Analysis

Dr. S. Thanuskodi | Dr. N. Rathika

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. Scientific measurement techniques are involved in evaluating the publication of nuclear medicine, the growth rate of research publications, author productivity, collaborations, citations, high-quality journal lists, and the geographical distribution of publications nationally and internationally in nuclear medicine. This study published that the development of nuclear medicine used to be unstable till 2017. Then, gradually increasing from 2018 to 2020, 12,632 publications had been covered in the Web of Science Database on Nuclear Medicine. The outcomes show that the highest quantity of publications published in 2020 used to be 771.

Keywords: Nuclear Medicine, Scientometric, Citation Analysis, Author Productivity, Bradford's distribution and Geographical distribution

Edition: Volume 13 Issue 1, January 2024,

Pages: 890 - 899