DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135409
Published: September 2013
Type: Research Article
Scientific Information Resource Division , Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Abstract:
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively and qualitatively the growth and development of global agricultural science publication output and citations as perĀ Web of scienceĀ during 1993-2012. The objective of this study was to perform a scientometric analysis of all agricultural science research publications in the world. The parameters studied include growth of publications and citations, continentāwise distribution of publications and citations, countryāwise distribution of publications, publication efficiency index, domaināwise distribution of publications and citations, specialization index, variation of average impact factor in agricultural science subādomains, languageāwise distribution of publications, distribution of high frequency keywords, identification of highly cited publications and highly preferred journals.