A Scientometric Analysis of Air Pollution Publications during 2012-2021
Author(s): Dr. S. Mahalakshmi
Abstract - In recent years, many researchers have investigated the association between air pollution because it has become a global public health problem. The present study is aimed at analysing the global publication trends on air pollution using Web of Science database for the period 2012-2021. A total of 53791 publications were published on air pollution and the average number of publications per year was 5379. The publications peaked in the year 2021 with 9874. Annual growth rate has decreased from 109.13 in 2013 to 22.48 in 2021. China topped the list with highest share 17084 (31.76%) of publications. USA ranked second with 15493 (28.80%) shares of publications followed by England 3956 (7.35%) share of publications and India should 7th ranks among the countries publishing air pollution publications. Wang, Y is the most productive author with 494 (0.92%) publications followed by Liu, Y with 452 (0.84%) publications, the scientific literature on air pollution is spread over 3339 different web of science source journals.
Keywords - Air pollution, annual growth rate, relative growth rate and doubling time.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.8.2.2022.1554
Cite This Article As: Mahalakshmi, S. (2022) A Scientometric Analysis of Air Pollution Publications during 2012-2021. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 8(2) 236-245. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1554 Page: 236-245 Publication Date: 29 June 2022