SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ON TOXICOLOGY

This paper examines on scientometric analysis of research publications on toxicology, the data that have been accessed from the Web of Science database; the study period is from 2011 to 2020; with 3480 records have retrieved for the study. Objectives of the study; to find out year-wise publications on toxicology research, to examine authorship patterns, to find out the top twenty authors contributions, to find out top twenty institutions that contributed to toxicology research, to find top twenty sources contributions, to identify top twenty countries contributed on toxicology research. The study reveals that, year publications on toxicology research show an increase and decrease trend, the document type wise research publications on toxicology, Articles has first place with 1177 records, Meeting Abstracts has second place, Review Articles has third place with 627 records. The authors wise contributions, totally 12080 authors were contributions, Hoeng J, has first position, Peitsch M C, has second, Martin F, has a third contributions and so on, out of 3480 publications, 97.99 per cent of papers has been published in the English language, totally of 891 sources were published 3480 records on toxicology research, total of 113 countries were contributed to toxicology research, among the countries, the United States of America has the first position with 44.48 per cent contributions, Germany has second position with 10.20 per cent, England has third position with 9.17 per cent. Totally of 113 countries were contributed to toxicology research, out of 113 countries the United States of America has the first position, Germany has second position, England has third position and India has eighteenth place contributions.