Scientific Infonnation Resource Division, Knowledge Management Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of world literature on Raman spectroscopy in terms of publication output as per Science Citation Index (1982–2005). During 1982–2005 a total of 42804 papers were published by the scientists in the field ‘Raman spectroscopy’. The average number of publications published per year was 1783.5. The highest number of papers 3563 were published in 2005. There were 127 countries involved in the research in this field. USA is the top producing country with 12140 publications (22.48%) followed by Japan with 5287 publications (9.79%), Germany with 4354 publications (8.06%), France with 4045 publications (7.49%), Peoples-R-China with 3031 publications (5.61%) and England with 2799 publications (5.18). Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. There were 40553 collaborative papers. Bilateral collaboration accounted for 7628 (17.82%) percent of total collaborative papers. Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) topped the list with 874 publications followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences (Peoples-R-China) with 714 publications, CNRS (France) with 566 publications. The most prolific authors were: J.R. Durig with 347 publications, H.G.M. Edwards with 276 publications, T.G. Spiro with 253 publications, W. Kiefer with 247 publications, and R.L. Frost with 202 publications. The most preferred journals by the scientists were: Journal of Raman Spectroscopy with 1867 publications, Journal of Molecular Structure with 1361 publications, Journal of Chemical Physics with 1034 publications, Journal of Applied Physics with 964 publications and Applied Spectroscopy with 917 publications. The high frequency keywords were: Raman Spectroscopy (4835), Spectroscopy (3467), Spectra (3334), Scattering (2947) and Films (1643).
