Publication Trend on Nanotechnology among G15 Countries: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

Nanotechnology, a convergent and enabling horizontal technology, cut across all types of vertical industrial sector such as aerospace, biotech, energy, physics, chemistry etc. These industrial sectors depend on materials and devices made up of atoms and molecules, by default can all be improved by application of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. During the past two decades implication of this technology can be seen widely. In this study attempt has been made to identify the publication trend on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology among G-15 countries using Scopus database. There are 7,55,656 bibliographic records in nanotechnology on Scopus database over the period of 18 years (i.e.) 1992–2009. The publication progress on Nanotechnology is measured using sciento- metric tools such as Relative Growth Rate, Doubling Time, Activity Index, and Growth Rate. Further this study examines the Indian Institutional performance by ranking.