A bibliometric study of indian contribution on indian economy during 2006–17

The present study examines 750 Indian publications on Indian Economy as covered in Scopus database during 2006–17, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 15.31%, citation impact per paper of 5.25 and international collaborative papers share of 25.73% during 2006–17. Among sub-fields of Indian Economy, monetary economics contributed the largest share of publications (17.73%), followed by environmental economics (12.80%), political economy (10.53%), business economics (9.20%) etc. 283 Indian organizations and 373 Indian authors participated in research on Indian Economy during 2006–17, of which the top 20 organizations and 15 authors contributed 40.27% and 10.80% publications share and 54.14% and 11.47% citation share respectively of the Indian output and citations. The top 20 journals contributed 52.87% share of the journal output, which decreased from 59.55% to 49.10% from 2006–11 to 2012–17. Of the 750 papers on Indian Economy, only 9 papers registered 57 to 222 citations, and together contributed 973 citations, leading to the average citation per paper of 108.11.