Trends and Patterns of Publications in the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Through Bibliometric Analysis

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences is the most prominent journal in India committed to experimental agriculture. It publishes articles in all branches of agriculture, including agronomy, genetics, breeding, cytology, soil sciences, agroforestry, horticulture, water management, microbiology, agricultural engineering, plant diseases and pests, statistics, and economics. The paper describes the outcomes of a bibliometric analysis of the publication “Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences” from 2008 to 2022. The data were collected from the Scopus website and analyzed in R software version 4.3.2. Over 4000 peer-reviewed papers in the Scopus database were explored with the default indicators of bibliometric software tools. The findings revealed that the number of publications had a negative growth rate (-4.99%) during the given period, and a greater number of articles were published in 2020 (388). The top five most productive authors were K. A. Gomez (326), M. L. Jackson (292), V. G. Panze (210), S. Kumar (194), and A. K. Singh (188). The results showed that the number of articles increased gradually during 2015-2020, and the decline in publishing of articles was recorded after 2021. The most productive institution was the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, followed by Punjab Agricultural University. India leads in the corresponding author’s contribution, followed by China and Iran. Additionally, India dominates in citation, production over time, and co-author contribution.