Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 36, No 2 (2023)

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Scopus indexed scholarly publications of academics at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad: A Bibliometric analysis

KRISHNA S MARADDI, GIRISH N MARADDI, CHANDRAKANT N KOTABAGI

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Abstract: The paper gives a thorough review of faculty research output from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, as tracked by Scopus from 2002 to 2021.The Scopus database was used to retrieve the data for the study. To analyse the data, bibliometric techniques were used such as yearly distribution of publications, to calculate relative growth rate and doubling time of articles, authorship pattern, most prolific authors, most preferred journals etc. are studied. The analysis showed that, UAS, Dharwad had its most prolific year in 2014 with 116 publications (8.45%), totaling 658 citations, with the average article receiving at least 5.67 citations. The number of publications increased from 24 in 2002 to 1372 in 2021. The highest Doubling Time was found to be in the year 2019, with a value of 16.754. The author, Salimath P M of Genetics and Plant Breeding department was the most publishing author with 60 publications. The faculty preferred the journal “International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences,” with a current impact factor of 0.278 as most popular journal to publish their papers. According to the study, UAS, Dharwad have made significant contributions to research publications in the fields of genetics, biochemistry, agricultural and biological sciences, and molecular biology. 

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