Trends in nuclear research and its publications - An analysis based on five years coverage in the Indian science abstracts

The analysis of Indian journals, covering Nuclear Physics literature received from different institutions based on 'Indian Science Abstracts. has been reported. The survey reveals that more than 50% of the literature is concentrated in four journals and one annual publication 'Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics and Solid State Physics Symposium' which contains 23 per cent of the total articles. The institutes of higher learning and BARe are the main contributors. The trends of research and its publication in various journals propose the publication of a new journal to prevent the scattering of articles and also to channelize the contributions of the researchers in this subject