Research Output on Plant Pathology Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of 4,392 journal articles published in different journals during the period of 2008-2012 and covered in the CeRA (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture) database. The analysis is focused on the number of articles by year, authorship patterns, degrees of collaboration, contribution by institution, ranking of leading contributors, geographical distribution of articles at the national and the international level, subject growth of literature in plant pathology, and journal productivity patterns in plant pathological research. The findings of the study revealed that out of 4,392 articles, single authors contributed 3.26% of the articles while 95.99% of the articles showed multiple authorships. The average degree of collaboration is found to be 0.97. Universities contributed the maximum number of 3,383 articles. University of California got first rank with 222 publications. In India, Uttar Pradesh contributed the highest number of articles (143). The United States of America published the maximum number of 1,980 articles at the international level