Scientometric Study of Artificial Neural Networks Research in India

The present study is a scientometric analysis of research publications on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by Indian authors appearing in the Science Citation Index-Expanded during 1991–2014. The research output is analyzed on several parameters including total research output, its growth, rankand global publication share, activity index, relative citation impact, impact factor. It also presents the characteristics of most productive institutions, authors and high-cited papers. In the field of ANNs research, the top most prolific publishing countries are China and USA respectively. India is at 3rd position in the world with 3411 papers contributed by 5654 authors affiliated to 1025 institutions of India. The activity index suggests that India's research activity has improved greatly since 2008 onwards. Highest number of papers are contributed by Indian Institute of Technology (NT) Kharagpur and all the prominent NTs are the major contributors to the research on ANNs in India. Indian authors preferred to publish in journals originated from USA, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. Citation analysis for Indian publications gives 8.98 citations per pa per.