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Trends in Organic Farming Research in India (2002–2021)


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1 Anand Niketan College of Agriculture, Warora 442 907, India
2 Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur 440 033, India
 

A scientometric analysis was conducted to study the productivity and trend dynamics of organic farming research in India covering a period of 20 years (2002–21). The present study aims at science mapping to summarize research activity and its essential aspects. The scientometric analysis outlines the year-wise research growth pattern, prolific authors and their productivity, major contributing journals, major contributing institutions and countries along with keyword occurrences for trend dynamics of organic farming research in India. The data have been sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection database. The most productive period was 2017–21 (44.76% of the total papers published). The growth pattern showed a gradual increase in research during the two decades. Research articles were the most common document type. About 20.11% of international co-authorship was observed in organic farming research. ICAR-based Indian Journal of Agricultural Science was the major contributing source to organic farming research. This study has the potential to benchmark organic farming research in India and play a significant catalytic role in further research in the field of organic farming.

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Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Productivity, Scientometrics, Trend Dynamics.
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Authors

Ravindra S. Bankar
Anand Niketan College of Agriculture, Warora 442 907, India
Shalini R. Lihitkar
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur 440 033, India

Abstract


A scientometric analysis was conducted to study the productivity and trend dynamics of organic farming research in India covering a period of 20 years (2002–21). The present study aims at science mapping to summarize research activity and its essential aspects. The scientometric analysis outlines the year-wise research growth pattern, prolific authors and their productivity, major contributing journals, major contributing institutions and countries along with keyword occurrences for trend dynamics of organic farming research in India. The data have been sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection database. The most productive period was 2017–21 (44.76% of the total papers published). The growth pattern showed a gradual increase in research during the two decades. Research articles were the most common document type. About 20.11% of international co-authorship was observed in organic farming research. ICAR-based Indian Journal of Agricultural Science was the major contributing source to organic farming research. This study has the potential to benchmark organic farming research in India and play a significant catalytic role in further research in the field of organic farming.

Keywords


Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Productivity, Scientometrics, Trend Dynamics.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv125%2Fi5%2F483-489