Citation Analysis and Histographic Outline of Scientific Output in Agriculture Using Science Citation Index (2000-2008)

• Main Authors: Mitra Pashootanizadeh, Farideh Osareh
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology 2009-12-01
• Series: Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management
• Subjects: Scientometry; Citation Analysis; Agricultural Scientific Output; Agriculture Science Structure; Web of Science; Histographic Outline
• Online Access: http://jipm.irandoc.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-4-29&slc_lang=en&sid=1

The present investigation, by reviewing 22,617 records indexed between 2000 and 2008 in the Web of Science database and employing citation analysis methods attempts to identify key authors and institutes and their degree of collaboration, core journals, rate of scientific output, publishing forms and languages and leading countries in this field. It also attempts to draw a histographic outline of the agricultural science. The average annual growth in publications for the period studied was shown to be seven percent. Total of 22,617 records were presented in 15 different formats in 25 languages. 173 countries were involved. All agricultural articles retrieved from WOS had been submitted from 14,852 institutes and published in 3252 journals. 51,655 authors were identified who had cited 658381 sources. The clusters formed in the histographic outline based on LCS and GCS also included five clusters.