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Environmental science research in India: An analysis of publications

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Investigates the trends in environmental science research in India with regard to its various branches, channels of communication used, authorship pattern of the papers, institution-wise output, rank of journals, extent of collaboration and scholarship of papers basing the entries noticed in theParyavaran Abstracts. Major areas of interest of Indian environmentalists are given and prolific investigators have been listed. Journals used by Indian workers for publication of their work are studied. Subject areas with number of papers, number of authors, and average authorship are tabulated.

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Karki, M.M.S. Environmental science research in India: An analysis of publications. Scientometrics 18, 363–373 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02020151

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