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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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in February 2009, providing a method for judging the scientific results of other countries in the same or other disciplines. Bartol (2010) studies assessed selected characteristics of documents published in national journals and other publications in the countries which participate on the editorial board of an international journal JCEA (Journal of Central European Agriculture). Subbiah Arunachalam and Umarani (2001) studies on “mapping of agricultural research in India: A profile based on CAB Abstracts 1998”. Explains India’s contribution to research in agriculture and related fields in 1998 is assessed from an analysis of publications indexed in CAB abstracts. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The following are the objectives of the study. 1. To find out the year wise distribution of Agriculture Research Productivity during the 1970-2012. 2. To find out the distribution of year wise Citation Scores and H-index with Mean values of Agriculture productivity.
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To Analysis of Source Wise Distribution by Agriculture Research Output. To find out the Language wise publication research Publications. To reveal the exponential growth rate in number of publication was observed during 1970 to 2012.
METHODOLOGY There are various sources contributing to the research output in the field of Agriculture by global and Indian Scientists. In this study the secondary sources are taken for analysis from the Web of Science on line data base. The Web of knowledge is the search platform provided by Thomson Reuters (the former Thomson Scientific emerged from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia). The study period 1970 to 2012 is selected as the database is available. The search string is “Agriculture” field web of science was used for the year’s from 1970 to 2012 download the records based the string and all the downloaded data were analysed.
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Table -1: Year Wise Distribution of Agriculture Research Productivity Year Global India TLCS TGCS 1970 178 (0.3) 1 (0.04) 28 (0.03) 191 (0.03) 1971 119 (0.2) 20 (0.02) 258 (0.04) 1972 138(0.2) 17 (0.02) 174 (0.03) 1973 108 (0.2) 3 (0.1) 30 (0.03) 224 (0.04) 1974 156 (0.3) 2 (0.2) 81 (0.09) 439 (0.07) 1975 120 (0.2) 55 (0.06) 621 (0.10) 1976 127 (0.2) 35 (0.04) 260 (0.04) 1977 208 (0.4) 3 (0.1) 55 (0.06) 375 (0.06) 1978 251 (0.5) 4 (0.2) 66 (0.07) 531 (0.09) 1979 270 (0.5) 3 (0.1) 105 (0.12) 729 (0.12) 1980 270 (0.5) 4 (0.2) 111 (0.12) 804 (0.13) 1981 221 (0.4) 3 (0.1) 182 (0.20) 662 (0.11) 1982 273(0.5) 5 (0.2) 183 (0.20) 892 (0.15) 1983 243 (0.4) 15 (0.7) 263 (0.29) 1037 (0.17) 1984 252 (0.5) 8 (0.4) 201 (0.22) 1142 (0.19) 1985 242 (0.4) 7 (0.3) 269 (0.30) 1191 (0.20) 1986 257 (0.5) 3 (0.1) 246 (0.27) 961 (0.16) 1987 250 (0.5) 6 (0.3) 269 (0.30) 1026 (0.17) 1988 217 (0.4) 7 (0.3) 190 (0.21) 814 (0.13) 1989 221 (0.4) 17 (0.8) 433 (0.47) 1457 (0.24)
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total
319 (0.6) 729 (1.3) 749 (1.4) 806 (1.5) 952 (1.7) 1050 (1.9) 1041 (1.9) 1193 (2.2) 1207 (2.2) 1679 (3.0) 1905 (3.4) 1879 (3.4) 2062 (3.7) 2219 (4.0) 2198 (4.0) 2643 (4.8) 2941(5.3) 3534 (6.4) 4064 (7.3) 4449 (8.0) 4835 (8.7) 5434 (9.8) 3287 (5.9) 55296
15 (0.7) 31 (1.4) 25 (1.2) 26 (1.2) 34 (1.6) 28 (1.3) 33 (1.5) 45 (2.1) 32 (1.47) 54 (2.5) 62 (2.8) 68 (3.1) 65 (2.9) 65 (2.9) 79 (3.6) 99 (4.5) 114 (5.2) 155 (7.1) 199 (9.2) 189 (8.7) 219 (10.1) 276 (12.7) 169 (7.8) 2173
It could be derived from the above analysis the years of 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 were having highest publications in the area of agriculture in both global and India. The years of 1970 to 1990 were having lowest publications. During 1991 to 1995 were having moderate level of publications.
656 (0.72) 1048 (1.15) 1597 (1.75) 1595 (1.75) 1880 (2.06) 2656 (2.91) 2817 (3.09) 3723 (4.08) 3893 (4.27) 4725 (5.18) 5756 (6.31) 6250 (6.86) 6485 (7.11) 6550 (7.18) 5627 (6.17) 6647 (7.29) 5880 (6.45) 6346 (6.96) 5292 (5.80) 4458 (4.89) 3013 (3.30) 1277 (1.40) 160 (0.18) 91170
2415 (0.40) 8668 (1.43) 11853 (1.96) 12261 (2.03) 15141 (2.50) 20297 (3.36) 19008 (3.14) 29028 (4.80) 28325 (4.68) 31404 (5.19) 42135 (6.97) 38279 (6.33) 41932 (6.93) 44156 (7.30) 39695 (6.56) 42847 (7.08) 42170 (6.97) 37784 (6.25) 32883 (5.44) 25679 (4.25) 17410 (2.88) 6933 (1.15) 733 (0.12) 604824
The years of 2005, 2003 and 2002 were having highest total local citation scores. The years of 2003 and 2005 are having highest global citation scores. It is identified there is no relation between the productivity of publication between the citation scores.
Table 2: Distribution of year wise Citation Scores and H-index with Mean values of Agriculture productivity Mean Mean hMean Mean S.No Year LCS GCS CR NA LCS GCS index CR NA G 28 0.16 191 1.07 8 408 2.29 210 1.18 1970 I 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.0 2 2.0 2 1971 20 0.17 258 2.17 9 559 4.70 142 1.19 3 1972 17 0.112 174 1.26 10 480 3.48 167 1.21 G 30 0.28 224 2.07 9 398 3.69 134 1.24 1973 I 0 0 2 0.67 1 10 3.33 5 1.67 G 81 0.52 439 2.81 11 969 6.21 207 1.33 1974 I 0 0 0 0 0 10 5.0 3 1.5 6 1975 55 0.46 621 5.17 18 1614 13.45 158 1.32 7 1976 35 0.28 260 2.05 12 860 6.77 172 1.35 G 55 0.26 375 1.80 14 721 3.47 288 1.38 1977 I 0 0 0 0 0 7 2.33 6 2.0 SALIS Journal of Information Management and Technology, Vol.3, No.2, July - Dec., 2012
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G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G I G
1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
66 0 105 0 111 0 182 43 183 9 263 47 201 22 269 3 246 2 269 9 190 3 433 14 656 0 1048 14 1597 18 1595 10 1880 8 2656 30 2817 8 3723 27 3893 22 4725 26 5756 32 6250 37 6485
0.26 0 0.39 0 0.41 0 0.82 14.33 0.67 1.8 1.08 3.13 0.80 2.75 1.11 0.43 0.96 0.67 1.08 1.5 0.88 0.43 1.96 0.82 2.06 0 1.44 0.45 2.13 0.72 1.98 0.38 1.97 0.24 2.53 1.07 2.71 0.24 3.12 0.60 3.23 0.69 2.81 0.48 3.02 0.52 3.33 0.54 3.15
531 8 729 2 804 9 662 126 892 27 1037 179 1142 66 1191 22 961 8 1026 26 814 52 1457 77 2415 19 8668 174 11853 136 12261 294 15141 211 20297 538 19008 153 29028 416 28325 345 31404 592 42135 1219 38279 696 41932
2.12 2.0 2.70 0.67 2.98 2.25 3.0 42.0 3.27 5.4 4.27 11.93 4.53 8.25 4.92 3.14 3.74 2.67 4.10 4.33 3.75 7.43 6.59 4.53 7.57 1.27 11.89 5.61 15.83 5.44 15.21 11.31 15.9 6.21 19.33 19.21 18.26 4.64 24.33 9.24 23.47 10.78 18.7 10.96 22.12 19.66 20.37 10.24 20.34
15 2 16 1 16 2 20 6 24 4 29 11 25 6 25 4 23 2 23 6 23 4 34 7 38 3 57 9 69 7 75 10 73 12 84 12 81 9 99 13 96 14 99 16 114 18 114 17 114
794 30 2044 0 2023 17 1912 56 2110 66 2003 388 3230 165 2312 271 2545 52 2003 114 2188 161 2996 168 4319 7 13798 1020 14674 466 17934 955 20815 629 26732 1185 31639 701 38062 1594 36390 843 55039 1709 65712 1921 65010 2498 72061
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3.16 7.5 7.57 0 7.49 4.25 8.65 18.67 7.73 13.2 8.24 25.87 12.82 20.63 9.55 38.71 9.90 17.33 8.01 19.0 10.08 23.0 13.56 9.88 13.54 0.47 18.93 32.9 19.59 18.64 22.25 36.73 21.86 18.5 25.46 42.32 30.39 21.24 31.9 35.42 30.15 26.34 32.78 31.65 34.49 30.98 34.6 36.74 34.95
330 9 365 4 373 11 310 7 415 9 376 30 378 17 375 10 392 8 411 14 325 16 376 37 600 33 1539 80 1755 66 2009 64 2211 87 2587 56 2570 84 3291 123 3314 82 4316 173 4924 178 5313 153 5815
1.31 2.25 1.35 1.33 1.38 2.75 1.40 2.33 1.52 1.8 1.55 2.0 1.50 2.13 1.55 1.43 1.53 2.67 1.64 2.33 1.50 2.29 1.70 2.18 1.88 2.2 2.11 2.58 2.34 2.64 2.49 2.46 2.32 2.56 2.46 2.0 2.47 2.55 2.76 2.73 2.75 2.56 2.57 3.20 2.58 2.87 2.83 2.25 2.82 10
I 32 0.49 1032 15.88 21 2212 34.03 222 3.42 G 6550 2.95 44156 19.9 112 83350 37.56 6700 3.02 2003 I 41 0.63 800 21.31 17 2672 41.11 191 2.94 G 5627 2.56 39695 18.06 100 84142 38.28 6787 3.09 2004 I 61 0.77 1029 13.03 22 2681 33.94 269 3.41 G 6647 2.51 42847 16.21 100 106086 40.14 8348 3.16 2005 I 42 0.42 1650 16.67 26 4119 41.61 341 3.44 G 5880 2.0 42170 14.34 93 118553 40.31 10012 3.40 2006 I 64 0.56 1154 10.12 22 4322 37.91 384 3.37 G 6346 1.80 37784 10.69 87 137938 39.03 12064 3.41 2007 I 80 0.52 1396 9.01 23 5348 34.5 596 3.85 G 5292 1.30 32883 8.09 77 160256 39.43 14150 3.48 2008 I 58 0.29 1542 7.75 21 7000 35.18 731 3.67 G 4458 1.0 25679 5.77 62 188019 42.26 16191 3.64 2009 I 40 0.21 1004 5.31 19 7586 40.14 680 3.6 G 3013 0.62 17410 3.60 46 215371 44.54 18260 3.78 2010 I 29 0.13 606 2.77 15 8207 37.47 854 3.9 G 1277 0.24 6933 1.28 30 250200 46.04 21529 3.96 2011 I 7 0.03 235 0.85 7 12482 45.22 1113 4.03 G 160 0.05 733 0.22 8 154191 46.91 13280 4.04 2012 I 2 0.01 22 0.13 3 8606 50.92 707 4.18 G 91170 60.78 604824 392.54 2170 1992460 905.96 173469 92.93 Total I 840 36.24 15867 315.98 414 80279 983.91 7455 105.63 Note: G – Global; I – India; LCS – Local Citation Scores; GCS – Global citation Score; CR – Cited Records; NA – Number of Authors It could be noticed from above table that a total LCS of Global level is 91170, India level is 840, LCS exist with an average output of this subject being 60.78 and 36.24. 604824 GCS are found the duration periods and its average GCS value is 392.54 at global level and an India level is 15867 GCS and its average value is 315.98. Global level h-index value is 2170 and India having 414 h-index value. 1992460 times cited records at global level, its mean value is 905.96 and 80279
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times cited records at India level and its mean value is 983.91. 173469 authors were contributed at global level in the area of agriculture its mean value is 92.93, this value indicated averagely every year 93 authors were involved to product in this field. 7455 authors were contributed from India, its mean value is 105.63, this is indicates every year 105 authors were involved to published articles in the subject of agriculture.
Table 3: Analysis of Source Wise Distribution by Agriculture Research Output Recs. Source types Recs. (India) TLCS (Global) Article 42063 (76.1) 1766 (81.3) 66708 Proceeding papers 4679 (8.5) 113 (5.2) 10859 Review 3378 (6.1) 207 (9.5) 11403 Editorial Material 1650 (3.0) 32 (1.4) 1345 Book review 1582 (2.9) 13 (0.6) 17 Meeting Abstract 871 (1.6) 7 (0.3) 10 News item 244 (0.4) 4 (0.1) 60 Note 243 (0.4) 5 (0.2) 127
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Letter Review; Book Chapter Discussion Correction Article; Book Chapter Reprint Biographical Item Item about an Individual Correction, Addition Abstract of published item Bibliography Software review Database review Fiction, Creative prose Total
The above table describes that the articles from journal source capture the first position out of 55296 global publications, articles cover 42063 (76.1 %) with 66708 TLCS and 429090 TGCS; proceeding papers are 4679 (8.5%) with 10859 TLCS and 66886 TGCS measured. The conference proceeding papers as a source of agriculture research publication output follows second in order 1589 with 14.7 percent
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229 (0.4) 135 (0.2) 79 (0.1) 38 (0.1) 32 (0.1) 25 (0.04) 18 (0.03) 15 (0.03) 5 (0.009) 4 (0.007) 2 (0.003) 1 (0.001) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 55296
17 (0.7) 6 (0.2) 1 (0.04) 6 (0.2) 1 (0.04) 2173
134 415 17 2 20 28 3 2 0 0 0 20 0 0 91170
468 3041 44 6 178 197 18 28 0 0 2 89 0 0 604824
with 730 LCS and 13501 GCS of publication output taken for this analysis. Same case in Indian output of 2173 Indian publications, articles covered 1766 (81.3%), followed by proceeding papers 5.2 percent; Review is 9.5 percent; Editorial material is 1.4 percent; book review is 0.6; meeting abstract is 0.3 percent etc. Majority of the agriculture scientists have published their research papers in journals.
Table -4 Distribution of Language wise publication research Publications Language Global India TLCS TGCS English 51238 (92.7) 2172 (99.95) 90428 600122 French 722 (1.3) 187 1054 German 1287 (2.3) 1 (0.05) 282 1425 Spanish 456 (0.8) 28 459 Russian 102 (0.2) 1 79 Japanese 86 (0.2) 5 59 Portuguese 527 (1.0) 145 877 Czech 150 (0.3) 22 209 Italian 151 (0.30) 7 37 Polish 93 (0.2) 1 65 Rumanian 2 (0.003) 0 0 Croatian 52 (0.1) 12 36 Slovak 24 (0.04) 5 16 Swedish 6 (0.01) 0 0 Finnish 10 (0.01) 0 0 Hungarian 103 (0.2) 11 61 Slovenian 7 (0.01) 0 1 Chinese 83 (0.2) 5 226 Dutch 52(0.1) 2 10 Norwegian 4 (0.007) 1 3 Turkish 62 (0.1) 0 25
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Lithuanian Korean Serbo-Croatian Arabic Romanian Afrikaans Serbian Bulgarian Danish Estonian Flemish Malay Persian Welsh Total
49 (0.1) 9 (0.01) 4 (0.007) 3(0.005) 3 (0.005) 2 (0.003) 2 (0.003) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 1(0.001) 1 (0.001) 55296
The above Table 5 presents data of 35 types of languages which brought out the Agriculture research output. In the percentage analysis, English language (95.8 %) dominates in the
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25 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 91170
47 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 604824
first place among these 35 languages, followed by French and German language publications having medium level. Remaining language publications are been very low.
Table 5: Exponential Growth Rate in Number of Publication was observed during 1970 to 2012
Year 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
No. of pubs. in global 178 119 138 108 156 120 127 208 251 270 270 221 273 243 252 242 257 250 217 221 319
No. of pubs. in India 1 3 2 3 4 3 4 3 5 15 8 7 3 6 7 17 15
Exponential growth rate Glob India al 0.67 1.16 0.78 1.44 0.67 0.77 0 1.06 0 1.64 0 1.21 1.33 1.08 0.75 1.00 1.33 0.82 0.75 1.24 1.67 0.89 3.00 1.04 0.53 0.96 0.88 1.06 0.43 0.97 2.0 0.87 1.17 1.02 2.43 1.44 0.88
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
729 749 806 952 1050 1041 1193 1207 1679 1905 1879 2062 2219 2198 2643 2941 3534 4064 4449 4835 5434 3287 160 55296
31 25 26 34 28 33 45 32 54 62 68 65 65 79 99 114 155 199 189 219 276 169 2 2173
2.29 1.03 1.08 1.18 1.10 0.99 1.15 1.01 1.39 1.13 0.99 1.10 1.08 0.99 1.20 1.11 1.20 1.15 1.09 1.09 1.12 0.60 0.05
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2.07 0.81 1.04 1.31 0.82 1.18 1.36 0.71 1.69 1.15 1.10 0.96 1.0 1.22 1.25 1.15 1.36 1.28 0.95 1.16 1.26 0.61 0.01
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The above table 7 reveals the Exponential Growth rate of overall publications on agriculture during 41 years. An exponential growth rate in number of international publication was observed during 1970 to 2012. The highest growth rate (2.29 %) was found during 1990 with 729 publications, it shows that the particular year’s publication has sudden increased 2.29 percent. An exponential growth rate in number of Indian publication
was observed during 1970 to 2012. The highest growth rate (3.0 %) was found during 1982 with 15 publications, it shows that the particular year’s publication has sudden increased 3 percent of previous year’s publications. It is found from the year wise publications, after 1990 has good level publications has produced. Before during 1990 there is very low contribution of international and national publications.
Table 6: Showing the distribution of year wise vs. continents wise research output of Agriculture Rank Continents Recs TCS 70 - 76 77 - 82 83 - 88 89 - 94 95 - 00 01 - 06 07 - 12 1 Europe 19177 86476 51 237 298 824 2159 4117 11491 North 2 16745 445150 118 369 422 1543 2114 4354 7825 America 3 Asia 9766 85341 5 49 89 322 779 2024 6498 4 Africa 2234 24036 3 9 16 79 164 352 1611 5 Australia 2946 54034 13 82 64 167 393 618 1609 South 6 2148 25343 4 7 11 59 208 399 1460 America Total 53016 720380 194 753 900 2994 5817 11864 30494 The researcher concludes from the overall percentage analysis that the year group of 2007 to 2012 produced highest publications in the field of Agriculture.
The first year group of 1970 to 1976 has very low number of publications. The European continent establishes the highest publication among other continents.
Table 7: Showing Prolific journals according to highest research productivity in the first 25 journals (5487 journals) S.No Journal name R. O/P LCS GCS LCR Rank 1 American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1023 1805 5276 554 1 2 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 840 5156 18477 3169 2 3 Water Science And Technology 383 509 3110 245 3 4 Agricultural Water Management 350 1041 4206 979 4 5 Agricultural Systems 348 1905 5500 1241 5 6 Journal Of Sustainable Agriculture 341 551 1226 894 6 7 Food Policy 336 549 1744 388 7 8 Agricultural Economics 322 753 2124 620 8 9 Journal of Agricultural Economics 306 324 1074 270 9 10 Ecological Economics 304 947 3628 1199 10 11 Berichte Uber Land wirtschaft 288 99 250 119 11 12 Climatic Change 273 1443 5408 984 12 13 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 269 714 3049 362 13 14 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 257 930 3173 664 14 15 Science of the Total Environment 247 599 4740 685 15 16 Outlook on Agriculture 241 257 964 224 16 17 Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences 238 1915 13101 840 17 Mapping of Agriculture Research from 1970 to 2012: A Scientometric Study
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of The United States of America Journal of Environmental Management Soil & Tillage Research Agricultural History Journal of Food Agriculture & Environment Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis Plant and Soil Journal of Environmental Quality
The above table 9 describes that out of 5487 journals, “American Journal of Agricultural Economics” has published the highest number of articles 1023 (1.85 %); 1805 TLCS, 5276 TGCS and 554 TLCR scaled. It dominates in first place of research output in the field of Agriculture research output. The journal of “Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment” has 840 (2.15 %); 5156 TLCS with 18477 TGCS and the 3169 TLCR measured and occupies the second position.
234 231 219 219 217 212
634 960 55 51 251 200
3297 4512 220 169 1408 1096
678 686 23 369 356 248
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212 201
890 814
5599 4969
605 627
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The journal of “Water Science and Technology” has 383 (2.06 %) in third rank; 509 TLCS and 3110 TGCS with 245 TLCR are scaled and it’s stood the third position of the publication output in agriculture. Identified from the analyses, the highest scores of TLCS, TGCS and TLCR in the journals of “Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment”, followed by the journal of “American Journal of Agricultural Economics” have highest publications.
Table 8: Showing Prolific Indian journals according to highest research productivity in the first 15 journals (708 journals) S.No Journal name R. O/P LCS GCS LCR Rank 1 Current Science 150 71 883 78 1 2 Indian Journal Of Agronomy 40 4 53 0 2 3 Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 39 11 77 8 3 4 Environmental Monitoring And Assessment 36 10 155 16 4 5 Research On Crops 30 0 3 0 5 6 Agricultural Water Management 29 24 318 15 6 7 Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 29 3 28 2 7 8 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 27 45 455 38 7 9 Journal Of Agrometeorology 26 2 7 12 8 10 Annals Of Arid Zone 22 5 14 0 9 11 Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research 22 3 79 4 9 12 Outlook on Agriculture 22 3 35 13 9 13 Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 21 0 5 0 10 14 Irrigation And Drainage 21 3 59 3 10 15 International Journal of Remote Sensing 18 6 143 8 11 The above table describes the journal ranking and the “Current Science” has 150 (1.87 %) of publications with 71 TLCS, 883 TGCS and 78 TLCR measured, it in the first position of brought research output. Remaining journals
were having below 100 publication output. It is found from the above analysis, the highest number of publication and scores of TLCS, TGCS and TLCR in the journal of “Current Science”.
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CONCLUSION 21685 institutions were contributed around 55296 research articles at global level and 1753 institutes were 2173 articles at national level. The words “Agriculture”, “Agricultural”, Soil” and “Use” are frequently occurred in international level and national level of the sample data. The results can serve as an indicator of the agriculture research in India and it can also be used as reference resources for the research scholars and it can improve the publishing activities among the authors. REFERENCES 1. Annibaldi, A., et al., (2010). Scientometric analysis of national university research performance in analytical chemistry on the basis of academic publications: Italy as case study. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 398 (1), pp. 17-26. 2. Bartol, T. (2010). Scientometric assessment of publishing patterns and performance indicators in agriculture in the JCEA member countries. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 11 (1), pp. 1-10
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