Global Publication Productivity on Goat Research: A Scientometric Analysis

D, Prabavathy Global Publication Productivity on Goat Research: A Scientometric Analysis. Journal of Library, Information and Communication Technology, 2014, vol. 6, n. (3-4), pp. 61-68. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper evaluates the output of world literature on goat research based on the publications indexed in CAB Direct Online Database for the period from 1912 to 2013. The present study revealed that the total number of publications on goat research is 37,485. The average papers published per year is 367.50. India is the largest producer of publications on goat research with 2,381 papers which is 6.35% of the total publications followed by Brazil with 1000 papers (2.68%). As far as goat research is concerned, India has produced 359.12% more publications than China and 357.50% than USA. The top 20 countries have contributed 10,413 papers which is 27.78% of global research output. 'Small Ruminant Research' is the leading journal in publishing papers on goat research as it has published 1,389 papers which is 3.71% of global research output followed by the Indian Journal of Animal Sciences which has published 1,162 papers which is accounted for 3.19%. Among the top 20 journals, three journals are published from India and they collectively published 2,464 papers which is 6.57% of global publication output on goat research.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Goat research, Scientometrics, CAB Direct, Research Output, Publication Analysis
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr. D. Prabavathy
Date deposited: 19 Feb 2015 07:08
Last modified: 19 Feb 2015 07:08
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/24613

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