Affiliation:
1. Alagappa University, India
Abstract
The study analyses the bioinformatics literature during 2007-2017. For this study, a total of 83,904 publications were analysed. This chapter evaluated 11 years of bioinformatics publications with the aid of scientometric tools to find out the year-wise distribution, prolific authors, subject-wise distribution, type of document, top 10 titles, top 10 institutions, country-wise distributions, and language-wise distribution. The findings revealed that a maximum of 10,821 publications were published in 2017. Among the prolific authors, Martens, L. is ranked 1. In the document type, journal articles occupied the first position, which contributed 44,515 records. Among the prolific titles, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics has the highest contribution of publications (6,814). In the institution-wise distribution, Chinese Academy of Sciences is placed in first position, having contributed 1,576 publications. The majority of the publications (81,555) were published in English language only.