A Global Research Productivity of Nuclear Chemistry - A Scientometric Study

Abstract

The term “Nuclear Chemistry” has been used as search term in the International Indexing Database ‘Web of Science’ which is initially published by Institute for Scientific Information founded by the International Information Scientist Eugene Garfield. It is found from the study that there are 13,013 number of scholarly publications as the outcome of the research carried out in International and National Journals, by 42,345 researchers from 7373 Institutions and research organizations from 119 nations across the Globe. Among these 13,013 numbers of publications 6,965 were as the outcome of sponsored research by funding agencies across the globe. There are 112 research areas as the subject classified found in published research. Of which, the major subject areas such as Chemistry Multidisciplinary (2,651) Nuclear Chemistry (2,207) Physical Chemistry (2,075) Materials Science Multidisciplinary (1,086) Nuclear Science Technology (884) and Organic Chemistry (818) where the research publications proliferated and correlated. The country wise analyze revealed that USA (3841) is the topmost nation with highest Research Productivity which is followed by Germany (1434), China (1322), UK (1165), France (1118) and India (576) which is placed in 9th position in Global research outcome of Nuclear Chemistry.