Mapping of Environmental Engineering Publications: A Scientometric Study

Authors

  • G. ulaganathan
  • Dr. R. Senthil Kumar 2Librarian (SG) and Head (Research), Department of Library and Information Science, Kongunadu Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore-641029, Tamil Nadu, India.

Keywords:

Environmental Engineering, Scientometric, Scimago Journal and Country Rank, Citations, Citable Documents, Self Citations, H- Index

Abstract

This article discusses about the environmental engineering publications and its citation available in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank data base by the authors from top 15 countries (based on publications). The relevant data are collected from Scimago Journal and Country Rank data base and it was analyzed. It shows among the environmental engineering publications totally 180583 articles were published which are indexed in Scimago database. Among the publications, maximum of 42905 (23.76%) articles published by United States followed by China with 39081 (21.64%) publications and India published 11997 (6.65%) articles published during the study period.

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Published

2017-05-23