Growth of Global Warming Publications: A Scientometric Approach
Abstract
The present study is aimed at analyzing the global publication trends on global warming using Web of Science database for the period 2006-2015. A total of 23335 publications were published during the study period on global warming and the average number of publications per year was 2333.5. The quantum of publications peaked in the year 2015 with a total publications of 3357. This paper analysed the broad features of literature on global warming focusing on year wise growth of publications, most prolific authors, highly productive institutes, highly productive countries, language wise distributions of publications, high productive subject areas and most preferred journals for publications by scientists etc..