Authors: Dr. Praveen B. Hulloli, Dr.Venugopal Jalihal
Abstract: This research focuses on determining the applicability of Bradford’s Law of Scattering within the corpus of Indian medical research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The study analyzing 9,774 papers that amassed 123,043 citations, the data was retrieved from the Web of Science citation database covering the period from 2005 to 2024. The study examined annual research output trends, researcher communication preferences, and the productivity of journals. The results show that year 2023 recorded the highest volume of publications, totaling 2104 (21.53%. The year 2021 demonstrated the peak research influence, as measured by total citations 26356 (21.42%) and an h-index of 69. Furthermore, journal impact was not solely linked to publication volume. Despite publishing fewer papers than volume leaders, the highly specialized “Expert Systems with Applications” demonstrated superior quality, achieving the highest Average Citations per Paper (ACPP) of 36.03. The Bradford’s analysis strongly confirmed the law’s applicability, with the core zone consisting of 1.90% of journals contributing 33.22% of the literature. This clear stratification, supported by a negligible negative error (0.49%), confirms the concentration of key AI medical literature in a small core of highly productive journals.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20837913
