Scholarly Trends of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 21st century

A Scientometrics Study

Abstract

This study has been formulated to map the scholarly output of BARCs during the first two decades of the 21st century. The data of BARC research from 2002 to 2021 was downloaded from the Scopus database using affiliation. The study examined scholarly trends in sub-domains, collaboration patterns, prolific authors, and journals. The co-occurrence of keywords indicates that X-ray difference, scanning electron microscope, nanoparticles, and controlled study are significant research terms. Co-authorship analysis shows that researchers of BARC have intra-national and international collaboration in atomic research. The USA and Austria are the most collaborative countries. As of 10 January 2022, all the 27700 publications received 440064 citations (citation per article, 15.16). A total of 8.39% of citations have been noted from 10 highly cited papers. The five articles from the top ten cited articles were published in “The Lancet” journal (IF 79.32). The citation trend indicates that 10% of citations are added by the top 46 (0.16%) articles. Further, 17% of articles received no citations, and 46% received less than ten. It is found that most cited papers are published in the highest IF journal.