Global research output and growth rate study in “Aromatic Plants” research: A Scientometric analysis during 2008 – 2017.

Abstract

This study attempts to analyse the growth and development of Aromatic Plants research based on the publication output as reflected from the Scopus during 2008– 2017. A total of 1855 papers are seen as global research output on Aromatic Plants research.  It found that the most product year in the terms of publications count is 255 (13.75%) with the highest number of publications in the year of 2017.  The least number publications are found to be of 2008 with 119 (6.42%) publications. The articles were found the most used document type Article with 1452 (78.27%) documents, Review with 130 (7.1%), Conference paper with 121 (6.52%), Book chapter with 88 (4.74%), Business Article with 18 (0.97%), and so on. It is clear that relative growth rate of total research output decreased gradually. The growth rate is 0.73 in 2008 which decreased up to 0.15 in 2018. The mean relative growth rate for the periods 2008 – 2017 the relative growth rate of 0.275. The whole study period resulted the mean doubling time for total output is 2.734 years. The least used document type was letter with only 1 document. It is observed that the English language gains the ground with highest number of 1722 (92.83%) documents followed by Portuguese with 48 (2.59%) documents. Subject wise distribution of publications retrieved for the years considered for the study. There were 1040 (56.06%) publications in Agricultural and Biological science subject occupying the highest position. This is followed by Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular with 386 (20.21%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics with 347 (18.71%) and Medicine with 329 (17.74%) publications and so on. The weakest subject area found to Economics, Econometrics and Finance with only 5 (0.27%) publications. It is found that the Acta Horticulture gets the maximum number documents to be published with 83 (4.47%) titles in its share followed by Industrial Crops And Products with  64 (3.45%) tiles and Journal Of Essential Oil Bearing Plants  with 47 (2.53%). It is found that author Blank, A.F. first rank followed by Reinhardt,I.second rank in the list. The van De Sousa, D.P. third position among the productivity.  The list showsIndialeads the table with 327 (17.63%) publications, followed byBrazilwith 162 (8.73%),Italywith 137 (7.39%) publications and occupied third position. The minimum number of publication was collaborated withZimbabwewith only 1(0.05%) publications.