RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

This paper examines research publications on environmental pollution, the data have been accessed from the Scopus database; during the study period 2006- 2020, totally of 3895 records were retrieved for the study. Objectives of the study, to find out year wise publications on environmental research, to examine authorship pattern, to find out top twenty authors contributions, to find out top twenty institutions contributed on environmental research, to find top twenty sources contributions, to identify top twenty countries on environmental research. The study reveals that, the year-wise publications on environmental pollution research in the last five years shows on an increasing trend, overall shows that the year wise increased and decreased trend. Majority of the records were published in the form of articles, the sources type wise research publications on environmental pollution, 78.2 per cent papers were published in journal. The top twenty authors contributed to environmental pollution research. Among the 20 authors Münzel, T. has occupies first place, followed by Daiber, A. has second place, in the authorship pattern multi authors' contributions are more high compare with single author contributions. The language wise research publications on environmental pollution, out of 3895 papers, 90.91 percent of papers have been published in English, the top twenty countries contributed on environmental pollution research, out of 3895 environmental pollution research publications, China has occupied first place with 27.06 per cent contributions, followed by United States of America has second place with 12.55 per cent contributions, India has third place with 5.96 per cent,.