Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2013

Mapping of Global Horticulture Research Output: A Scintometrics Analysis

P. Ashok Kumar, Dr. R. Balasubramani, Santosh A Navalur

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With the augmenting importance of Horticulture various research initiations taken place and they involved in interesting research in the field of Horticulture and allied areas across the world. This study analyze the global research output in the field of Horticulture during the period 1999–2012 and the analyses included year wise growth, Exponential growth rate, author wise contribution, share of top scholarly journals, share of international collaborative papers and major collaborative partner countries, global publications share, and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. It also analyses the characteristics of most productive institutions, authors and high–cited papers. Web of science Citation database was used for retrieving the publications output in Horticulture during 1999–2012, where totally 1783 publications found. After analyses we found that there is need to promote research in developing and underdeveloped nations as the research in Horticulture concentrated more in developed world.  

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P. Ashok Kumar, Dr. R. Balasubramani, Santosh A Navalur Mapping of Global Horticulture Research Output: A Scintometrics Analysis Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.I January 2013

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