Bibliometric Landscape of Indian Publications on COVID-19 in 2020

Authors

Tapas Kumar Ghosh, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The paper attempts to provide a bibliometric landscape of Indian publications on the topic “COVID-19” in the year 2020. The threat of “COVID-19” pandemic constrained the researchers across the world to foster the research activities to combat the drastic effect of the new emerged infectious disease on human beings turned into pandemic in 2020 resulted influx in publication around the globe and the contribution of India found considerable. As per the data retrieved from Web of Science (WOS) on 29^th April, 2021, 62755 documents published at the global level on the topic “COVID-19” in the year 2020 where India occupied 5^th position publishing 3104 documents. The study intends to focus on citation, h-index, document type, prolific authors, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, most preferred journals, publishers, top rated research institutions and research fields under WOS categories.