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Date of this Version
2020
Abstract
Scientometric methods and resulting citations have been applied to investigate the scientific performance of country. The study examines performance on the basis of output published in the Oceanographic Research output during the study period 2015 to 2019 at the world perspective. A total of 3212 articles were retrieved according to the selection criteria from Web of Science database. The study focuses on various aspect of the Oceanography Research such as growth of publications, prolific authors, document types and institutions involved. The highest number of publication is in the year 2016 with 1179 records, whereas the minimum records published in 2019 i.e. 370. The majority of articles were written by Chen XJ 22 articles. The USA was found to be leading the research with 1144 articles. The researcher suggests for further study of this area research can be carried out the Bradford’s Law, Degree of collaboration (DC), and Geographical wise distribution of the Research.