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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.II(XII)/35-42/6
AUTHOR: C.Suresh, Dr.V.Ramesh Babu and N. Sankarasubramanaiam
TITLE: GLOBAL RESEARCH OUTPUT AND GROWTH RATE STUDY IN AGROFORESTRY : A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DURING 2007-2016
ABSTRACT: The study attempts to analyse the growth and development of Agroforestry research based on the publication output as reflected in Scopus during 2007– 2016. A total of 4030 papers are seen as global research output on Agroforestry research. The study found that the most product year in the terms of publications count is 568 with the highest number of publications in the year of 2016. The least number publications are found to be of 2007 with 283 publications and so on. The data indicates an exponential growth in publications output during the study period. The most productive authors, organisations, most influential journals and most functional sub-field in the area of Agroforestry research have been evaluated. It is clear that relative growth rate of total research output decreased gradually. The growth rate is 0.70 in 2007 which decreased up to 0.16 in 2016. The mean relative growth rate of the during period of 0.266. The whole study period resulted the mean doubling time for total output is 2.716 years. These studies can help researchers to comprehend the magnitude of Agroforestry research in India and establish future research directions.
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Agroforestry, Relative growth rate, Doubling Time
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