LITERATURE ON OZONE (2000-2015): A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

This study is based on 1831 articles on ozone literature published during the years 2000-2015 and archived in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Articles have been analysed to observe year wise growth pattern, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, identification of core journals, subject wise average number of references and objects used per article etc. From the study it is found that there is positive growth on ozone literature and most of the articles are in engineering and technology discipline. Most of the articles are published by 1-5 author(s). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics is the leading journal for publishing articles on ozone literature.