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MAPPING OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FROM 1970 TO 2012: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY M.Sankar1 and Dr.S.Srinivasa Ragavan2 1
Research Scholar & Assistant Librarian, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore – 641 003. E-mail: sankslibsal@gmail.com 2
Prof. & Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 620 024. ABSTRACT
This paper describes the agriculture research publication productivity from 1970 to 2012 from deliberates to observe the performance at inclusive and narrow perception. This study deals with the analytical part with databases, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) from the Web of Science, applying the analytical tools part; such as Relative Growth Rate (RGR) of the continents, and the Doubling Time (DT) for research output in the area of agriculture. Keywords: Scientometric study, Agriculture research, Mapping. INTRODUCTION Science is the process of evolution of new pieces of information. It is the pursuit of systematic and ordered knowledge and it denotes the body of verified and valid knowledge and the systematic generation of new knowledge. The most fundamental social process of Science is the communication and exchange of research findings. The principal means of scientific communication is publication, which allows scientists to verify the reliability of information, acquire a sense of relative importance of a contribution and obtain critical response to work. It is through publications that scientists receive professional recognition and funding for further research. Publication is assured to be central to productivity in research. The count of publications appears to be a valid measure of research productivity when dealing with basic research. Scientific communication is the only link between scientists in various parts of the globe. Scientific information generated in a discipline is an index of the scientific research carried out in that area. Wonderful sharing documents are in eduzhai
REVIEW OF LITERATURE Sun, Ni and Ho (2011) evaluate the coastal eutrophication research performance based on
all the related articles in Science Citation Index databases from 1993 to 2008. This was coincident with the research trends of coastal eutrophication, which was thought to be a component of global change. Additionally, keywords analysis was used to indicate the formation and shift of hot research. Liesch et al. (2011) discusses about the Macroenvironmental trends such as technological changes, declining trade and investment barriers, and globalizing forces impacting both markets and production worldwide point to the heightened importance of international business (IB) and the relevance of IB research today. Cen, Chen and Cao (2010) high lights on taking wind energy field as the case and CNIPR, USPTO and Web of Science as data resources, his paper collects, processes, analyzes related data and conducts visualization on the result according to the construction process of mapping knowledge domain. Annibaldi et al., (2010) describes on Italian academic performance in analytical chemistry is evaluated by scrutinizing all the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) publications produced during the professional lifetimes by the 80 Italian university professors
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