Scientometric Analysis of Soil Pollution Research Publications from SCOPUS Database during 2011 - 2020

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the soil pollution research publications from the Scopus database during 2011-2020 with a total number of 35,572 research publications. During the study period, a maximum number of 4,857 (19.88%) publications are contributed in the year 2020, the highest number of 89,951 citations is received 3,019 publications in the year 2011 and compound annual growth rate 1.61. The relative growth rate is 0.69 in the year 2012 and 0.15 in the year 2020. At the same time, doubling time is found that 1.00 in the year 2012 and 4.72 in the year 2020. The majority of the authors in the field are preferred to publish their research works in four authorship modes with 6,359 publications. During the study period, the average degree of collaboration is 0.96, the average collaborative coefficient (CC) is 0.72 ties and the average collaborative index value is 4.38 and the average modified CC value is 4.38. A maximum of 142 (14.68%) research publications are contributed by Ok Y-S, India, and his publications are received 11,106 (25.61%) citations, CPP is 78.21, h-index is 59, and RCI value is 1.74. This study identified that time series analysis will be expected in the soil pollution research publications in the year 2025 is around are equal to 4,657 and the year 2030 is around are equal to 5,207.