World literature on thorium research: A scientometric study based on Science Citation Index

Comparison of China/USA science and technology performance

“…Nanotechnology studies published in the 2005-2008 time period (Calero, Buter, Valdes, & Noyons, 2006;Guan & Ma, 2007;Kostoff, Stump, et al, 2005Kostoff, Murday, Lau, & Tolles, 2005Miyazaki & Islam, 2007;Mogoutov & Kahane, 2007;Porter, Youtie, Shapira, & Schoeneck, 2008;Schummer, 2007), as well as other studies published during that time frame (Basu & Lewison 2005;He, Zhang, & Teng, 2005;Kademani, Kumar, Sagar, Kumar, 2006;Zhou & Leydesdorff, 2006), also used the SCI for comparison purposes. All these studies concluded the USA was still leading the PRC in numbers of nanotechnology publications, and in quality of these publications, but the PRC was rapidly closing this gap.…”

Scientometric Analysis of Astrophysics Research Output in India

“…In 2009, Kumara (2009) carried out scientometric studies in major areas of physics and engineering sciences. Some other scientometric studies in different subject domains include Jain and Garg (1992) Kademani (2006) Garg and Padhi (1998) (Laser patent literature), Upadhye (2004) Lee (2003) (molecular and cell biology), Schummer (1997) Braun et al (2000) and Gupta (1999) (Fullerene research) et al A number of scientometric studies in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics have also been executed. Basu and Lewison (2005) evaluated research output of global astronomy and astrophysics by an analysis of papers in the Science Citation Index identified with a special filter and found out leading Indian institutions and authors.…”

Research Trends in Radioisotopes: A Scientometric Analysis (1993-2012)

“…The study focused on the broad features of zirconium literature such as year-wise distribution of publications, country-wise distribution of publications, country-wise activity index, domain-wise distribution of publications and highly productive institutions. Sagar 5 , et al, have presented the growth of literature on cobalt-60 research in nuclear science and technology by way of analysing various characteristic of research output such as the growth of publications, geographical distribution of publications, publication productivitywise distribution of publications. There is a lot of research being carried out all over the world in the field of radioisotopes and their applications in various fields such as healthcare, industry, food and agriculture, and environmental monitoring.…”