Scientometric Dimension Of Authors Collaboration And Productivity Of Geoscience Research Output In Global Level

Abstract

A bibliography record of global Geoscience research output for the period 1989-2020 covering 2825 research items evaluated year wise publication of research on Geoscience, author productivity distributions, journal distributions, keywords occurrence and tests the empirical laws. Eight thousand three hundred and forty six authors have contributed the total of 2825 research papers. This study identifies the most prolific authors, scattering of articles in different journals word frequency and citation analysis is also noted. The analysis also discovered that these 2825 papers have a total of 56075 referenced references. Author Wang, C topped the list with total 23 publications, Comptes Rendus Geoscience which comprises of 208 publications was dominated as most preferred Journal of Geoscience and high frequency keyword were “Geoscience” is used 864 times with 10114 citations also noted. Out of 2825 publications, only 734 publications single authored and other publications are multi authored with degree of collaboration 0.62. Pattern of co-authorship revealed that the improving the trend of co-authored publications. This study also verified price square root law