Research Output on Biosensor Literature during 1979–2015: A Scientometric Study

The study analysis the research output on biosensor literature in the world during 1979–2015. A total of 46719 records were downloaded from the Scopus database for the period from 1979–2015. The biosensor literature in the World has been started in the year 1979 with one record and gradually raised to 4117 records in the year 2014 and it has slightly come down to 3992 in the year 2015. United Stated has contributed the highest number of publications on biosensor research which published 11094 (20.30%) documents followed by China with 8585 documents (15.71%). Most of the documents of research on biosensor literature are research articles which occupies 73.50% of total output. Nanjing University has published the highest number of documents (520 documents) on Biosensor research followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences with 470 documents (1.98%). The author Wang has published the highest number of publications (194) on biosensor and he has published a total of 944 publications with 27006 citations. The journal Analytica Chimica Acta has got 73 citations per document during 2014 which is the highest average citation among all other biosensor literature journals during 2013 and 2014.