Highly cited Articles in plant Sciences from Science citation index-Expanded: a scientometric analysis

This paper analyses the 239 publications with more than 1000 citations indexed in SCI-Expanded of Web of Science under research area plant sciences. These publications have been written by 600 authors and from 224 institutes and universities across the world. There are 52 periodicals with impact factor ranging from 0.687-18.918 which published these articles. The most number of highly cited articles were published in Annual Review of Plant Physiology And Plant Molecular Biology (34). Authorship pattern indicates that 25 % of highly cited publications (61) have been written by single author. Two author publications is most prevalent with 90 publications. It is also evident that one paper was written by as many as 42 authors. There are 148 papers in international collaboration and 61 papers without collaboration. Photosynthesis is the most frequent keyword used by authors