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Growth of Global Warming Publications: A Scientometric Approach

. Dr.N.Ashok Kumar, Dr.M.Mani , Dr. R. Santhakumar and Dr.P.Balasubramanian


Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse the publication trends on the topic global warming. Journal articles and contents published over a span of decade (2012-2021) utilised as sample. Data was retrieved from Web of Science database. A total of 39149 publications were found on the topic global warming. The data was analyzed using Microsoft excel and it was found that the average number of publications per year was 3915. The highest number 6758 articles were published during the year 2021.  Relative Growth Rate (RGR) is found to be in a downward trend from 2013 (0.75) to 2021 (0.19). The doubling time (DT) was found to be in an upward trend from 2013 (0.92) to 2021 (3.65).Among the countries contributed to global warming topic USA published more number of articles 11518 (29.42%) and achieved first rank in publications. China ranked second with 8961 (22.89%) shares of publications followed by England with 3939 (10.021%). Journal of cleaner production has published 1081 (2.76%) articles and achieved an impact factor of 5.84 for the year 2021, followed by this Geophysical research letters has published 944 (2.41%) publications and achieved impact factor of 4.99. This study identified most productive authors and their affiliations institutes from which they publish the papers. Also this study focused on which subject areas where more number of articles being published.

Index Terms- Annual growth rate, Doubling time, Global warming, and Relative growth rate

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