The present study is based on the Indian output of 10,278 research papers in nuclear science as indexed in Web of Science database for the period of 10 years (2009 to 2018), with a view to understand India’s growth, geographical distribution of the publications, research communication in core journals, institutional productivity, highly productive scientists. It is noted from the study that India has produced highest number of papers i.e. 1189, 11.57% scholarly publications 4530 citations with 3.81 average citations per papers in the year 2016, highest research output is from Radiology Nuclear Medicine Medical Imaging 5589 with 32.52% share, leading journal is Journal of Radio analytical and Nuclear Chemistry with 900 publications 18.60% share, followed by most prolific research institutions of India is Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai that has contributed the highest i.e. 2151, 38.62% publications, highly productive scientist is Kumar A. 568 publications with 21.05 % share, Further, International collaborative share 612 articles of India in this research output was with United States with 28.32% share. Besides articles appeared in the journals have shown a predominant contribution 7670 publications with 69.48% share. It is also observed that 10275 articles with 99.97% share in English.