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Research Contributions on Nephrology During 2010–2015: A Scientometric Approach

Research Contributions on Nephrology During 2010–2015: A Scientometric Approach
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Author(s): Radhakrishnan Natarajan (Periyar University, India)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 14
Source title: Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): J. John Jeyasekar (Tamil Nadu State Forensic Sciences Department, India)and P. Saravanan (Lekshmipuram College of Arts and Science, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch013

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Abstract

Nephrology is the adult and pediatric study of the kidneys and associated diseases. This chapter deals with the research productivity on Nephrology. Since the study is based on scientometric approach, the data has been retrieved from Web of Science database. The objectives of the study are: to identify the growth rate of research productivity, to trace the types of documents in Nephrology, to know the authorship pattern and language wise classification, and to find out the institution and geographical area wise distributions. Software packages such as Histcite and VOSviewer have effectively been used to analyze the data. In addition, various scientometric tools were also applied. As far as the contribution is concerned, the USA leads other parts of the world in Nephrology. English language dominates the globe in terms of publications.

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