Abstract:
The main aim of the study is to investigate the trend and performance in drinking water related research in India for the past 16 years. For this paper we used Science Citation Index (SCI), Institute for Scientific Information (151) database to investigate the research work related to drinking water in India. There is a steady increase in publications related to drinking water research till 2004 and a sudden increase in 2005 to 2007. More collaborative work has been carried out with USA. Maximum number of articles in drinking water was published by the journal Fluoride. Arsenic has been used as the most popular keyword used frequently in the last 6 years and adsorption is another keyword in the same period.
