Tracking the Impact and Trends in Water Resources Research in India: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

This study intends to analyse the research trends, growth, and collaboration patterns in the field of Water Resources in India. The source for the data collection is the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection Database. A total of 797 publications published during the period from 2016 to 2021 satisfying these search criteria were pulled out to perform further analysis. This study revealed that Water Resources Management is the most productive journal with 26 articles (3.26%), followed by Arabian Journal of Geosciences 22 (2.76%), Environmental Earth Sciences 21 (2.63%) publications got 2nd and 3rd rank respectively. the year 2020 highest number of articles 236 (29%) were published on water resources followed by the year 2019 with 149 (18.69%).The Most productive author Malik, Anurag from Punjab Agricultural University is in the top position with 16 (2.007%) published articles. 177 (22.2%) of the total publication have two authored contributions taking the first position. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay published the highest number of articles i.e., 48 (6.02%) occupy 1st rank. Department of Science & Technology India funded 6.27%of published articles in the field of Water Resources Research.USA has the highest number of collaborative research work with India. China comes second with AFI value of 8.50. The Internationalization Index of Indian Water Resources literature is 73.77.Co-operative efforts show that there are 580 scientific links created between other countries, depicting most publications collaborated with authors from more than two countries.