FITTING OF LOTKA’S LAW WITH LIFE SCIENCES LITERATURE OF KERALA STATE, INDIA BASED ON SCOPUS AND WEB OF SCIENCE

The paper presents the quantitative analysis of research performance of life science in Kerala state, India. A total of 9838 records for 30 years spanning between 1986 and 2015 were retrieved from SCOPUS and Web of Science. The study aims to ascertain the growth of literature, authorship pattern, sources of publications, subject concentration, etc. The emphasis has been laid on the testing of Lotka's law with the life science literature using LLS method. The result indicates that the Lotka's law is best fitting to the data of life sciences literature.