Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-695034, E-mail: minidevi_b@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 6 November, 2015.
The article analyses scientometrically the growth of nuclear medicine literature. The data was taken from the database Web of Science Core Collection provided by Thomson Reuters from 1999 to 2014. A total of 6366 records were were analysed by using scientometric analysis and information visualization software package Hist Cite. The most productive year is 2011 having 585 articles followed by 2012 (8.6%) and 2010 (8.5%). The relative growth rate of publications decreased from the rate of 0.67 in 2000 to 0.09 in 2013. The rate of growth of publications was decreased, corresponding doubling time was increased.
Doubling Time (DT), Exponential growth, Growth study, Nuclear Medicine, Relative Growth Rate (RGR), Scientometrics
