Scholarly communication behavior in forestry research: A bibliometric analysis of global publications

Abstract

Scientific advancements and developments could be ensured by the environment where the free flow of libraries and information centers always has a pivotal and pioneer role in science communication and knowledge dissemination as the existing literature forms new literature. Quantification of information measuring a set of established parameters evolves policy decisions. Bibliometrics and scientometrics contributed to a great extent towards organizing the research outcome, scientific and knowledge outcome for timely retrieval and use. Forest plays an important role in ecosystem management. It is very difficult without enhanced forest cover to live in this world as forest plays a significant role in the healthy lifestyle of human beings and other species in this world. Considering the importance of forestry, the researcher wanted to find out the research trends in forestry. It is found from the analysis that there are 16203 research publications for the last 10 years. The time period for the data is from January 2012 to December 2021, which spans a period of 10 years. The articles which are published during the period are indexed in the database being considered for research analysis. About 45720 authors contributed 16203 publications which are published in 2298 international journals. It has 232465 citations which means 232465 scholarly information resources cite 16203 articles. The h-index for the total outcome of the time span is 136 for forest research across the globe. The indexed records consist of 404497 references. There are 27409 university and research departments affiliated with various organizations from where the researchers have contributed the total research outcome on the forestry and allied subject research for the study period. More than 163 countries collaboratively and individually contributed research in forestry.