1Assistant Professor, DLIS, Alagappa University, Karaikudi
2Librarian, SETS MGR Knowledge City, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai
3Research Scholar, DLIS, Alagappa University, Karaikudi
*Corresponding Author: R. Jeyshankar, jeyshankar71@gmail.com
Online published on 16 May, 2017.
This paper presents a quantitative study of productivity, characteristics and the aspects of food and nutrition. A total of 1291 Indian contributions covered in SCOPUS database were analysed the academic productivity of food and nutrition scientists in India during the period of 1960–2011. The study indicates that scientist from New Delhi 215, Andhra Pradesh 171, Karnataka 155 and Tamil Nadu 125 have published regularly. The research output is highly scattered as indicated by the average number of papers per institution and per states in India. The food and nutrition output is dominated by the two authored papers. Further, the study investigated Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time authorship pattern, co-authorship pattern, highly prolific authors, highly published institutions and highly preferred journals by the scientists of India.
Scientometric, Relative Growth Rate, Degree of Collaboration, Doubling Time
