This study examines Lotka's law of authorship distribution in the field of Congestive Heart Failure from 1989 to 2023.The data were retrieved from the Web of Science database.A total of 2565 documents were retrieved and analyzed through Histcite and Bibexcel software.Graphs and Charts are made through Microsoft Excel.The data were examined by type of document, year-wise distribution, journal-wise distribution, and Prolific author.The applicability of Lotka's law and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test has been analyzed to find out the scientific productivity.The findings of the study revealed that congestive heart failure articles gradually increasing and the highest publications are recorded in the year 2021.Journal articles have the highest impact on types of documents.The most productive journals are the European Journal of Heart Failure and the International Journal of Cardiology with 124 and 63 articles on Congestive Heart Failure.The most productive author is Kumar A with 73 contributions followed by Yusuf S with 56 contributions.The study reveals that Lotka's law applies to the authors of congestive heart failure where the Dmax value is lower than the critical value.
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