Research trends in fusion engineering: a global perspective

Author: Kademani B.S.  

Publisher: Inderscience Publishers

ISSN: 1479-540X

Source: International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, Vol.5, Iss.4, 2011-03, pp. : 307-333

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Abstract

This paper attempts to highlight the growth and development of fusion engineering literature as per the Web of Science (WoS) database during 1991-October 2010 and make the quantitative and qualitative assessments by way of analysing various features of research output such as year-wise distribution of publications and citations, publication growth rate, country-wise distribution of publications, co-authorship index, institutional productivity, international collaboration, distribution of publications and citations in various domains of fusion engineering, domain-wise activity index, collaboration pattern and extent of citations, identification of highly cited publications, language-wise distribution of publications and citations, journals preferred for publication by the scientists, quality of research output and analysis of keywords.