International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

This paper focuses on the growth and development of oncology research in India in terms of publication output as reflected in the Web of Science database. A total of 1380 publications were published in the field from 2011 to 2020. The highest number of publications 239 were published in 2020. The highest value of compound annual growth rate i.e. 0.204 was recorded in the year 2012 and the lowest CAGR i.e. -0.068 was recorded in the year 2016. The compound annual growth rate of publications was in fluctuated from 2011 to 2020. The relative growth rates have decreased from 0.90 (2012) to 0.19 (2020). The doubling time has gradually increased from 0.77 (2012) to 3.64 (2020). The study also found that the average Immediacy Index was 35.26, the average RCI value is 0.98 and the average relative citation impact is 0.98 during 2011-2020. Out of 1380 total publications, the highest number of papers are published in the form of journal articles. Indian Journal of Cancer, Pediatric Blood Cancer, and Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics are the major most prolific journals in the field of oncology.