1Research Scholar, DLIS, Karnataka State Women's University, Jnana Shakti Campus, Torn, Vijayapura, Karnataka
2Assistant Professor, DLIS, Karnataka State Women's University, Jnana Shakti Campus, Torn, Vijayapura, Karnataka
*Corresponding Author Neelamma. G, neela.990@gmail.com
Online published on 3 April, 2017.
The present study aims to analyse the research output performance of Crystallography, which is covered in Web of Science on-line version database for the period of 1989–2013. A total of 1387195 references cited in 45320 articles in 2043 journals. The study elaborates on various bibliometric components such as distribution of citations by documents type, country wise publication of citations, further the study also list out the most productive journals in the field of crystallography. The analysis of the study reveals that out of 1387195 citations (83.83%) research articles contribute the highest number of citations and it is the most preferred sources of information used by researchers in the field of crystallography. Further journal of Molecular Biology is the most cited journal in the field of crystallography. The USA is most cited country in the world. Bradford's law well fitted in to the given data set for the present study. Finally it can be concluded that, the significant research activity is taking place in the field of Crystallography. And it is one of the emerging research fields in the applied science.
Journal Ranking, Bradford's Law, Form of document, Citation study, Crystallography
