Two Decades of Semiconductor Research Trends in India: A Scientometric Study Based on the Web of Science

Abstract

An attempt has been made in this study to identify the research trends on semiconductor scientific publications in India through the scientometric analysis using the Web of Science core collection database for a period of two decades from 2004 to 2023. A total of 17717 research outputs were collected during the research and properly tabulated using MS Excel spreadsheet and analyzed applying various tools and software such as VOSviewer and HistCite. The results show that the yearly growth rate is in the year 2022 with 1530 research publications and ranked first. It also shows that the doubling time (DT) has gradually decreased and the level of research relative growth rate (RGR) in semiconductors has significantly increased. The subject “Physics” ranked first with 54.29 percent of records as it is the fundamental discipline that reflects the importance of semiconductor research publications among the other research domains. The USA and South Korea are leading global contributors to Indian semiconductor research. Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Alloys and Compounds are top journals in this field.