Global Research Trends on the Use of Nanotechnology to Boost Meat Production: A Scientometric Analysis

Meat production plays a vital socioeconomic role for sustainable development and for promoting food security in most countries. However, not much is known about research agendas done globally and the advancement of knowledge-generating networks in this area of study. The present study aims to reveal and analyze scientific research outputs on meat production linked with recent nanotechnology research work done till date. A compilation of research advancement and development within the sphere was realized through a scientometric study to comprehend the trend of research outputs, scientific impacts, authors' involvement, collaboration networks, and the advancement of knowledge gaps for future research endeavors on the current subject matter. Scholarly published articles were retrieved from the web of science (WOS) and Scopus databases from 1985 to 2020 and they were merged together using bibliometric package in R studio. All duplicated articles (438) from both data bases were excluded. A combination of terms (nano* AND (livestock* OR meat* OR beef* OR mutton* OR pork* OR chevon* OR chicken* OR turkey*)), and conversely analyzed for scientometric indices. A collection of 656 peer-reviewed, research articles were retrieved for the study period and authored by 2,133 researchers with a collaboration index of 3.31. The research outputs were highest in the year 2020 with total research outputs of 140 articles. The topmost three authors' keywords commonly used by authors were nanoparticles, meat, and chitosan with a respective frequency of 75, 62, and 57. China, Iran, and India ranked top in terms of meat production research outputs linked to nanotechnology and total citation with respective article productivity (total citations) of 160 (3,193), 111 (1,765), and 37 (552). Our findings revealed an increasing trend in research (with an annual growth rate of 25.18%) tending toward advancing meat production with the use of nanotechnology. Likewise, there is an increasing pointer to the fact that research work on nanotechnology and meat production has the prospect to influence positively, decision-making on research direction, and collaborations, hereby increasing the production of meat and its products in the future.

Environmental Literacy Research: Global Scientometric Mapping of Five Decades

To date, there is no scientometric study conducted on Environmental Literacy (EL) literature. Hence, this paper aims to bridge this gap.We aimed fora holistic scientometric analysis of scientific literature available on EL, whichresulted in finding global research trends in EL research. We operatedthe following scientometric tools: VOSviewer and Bibliometrix R Package-Biblioshiny for complete science mapping analysis of the collected bibliographic data retrieved from Scopus database. We analysed the Scopus scientific research outcomes during the last 50 years. The outcome included438 total documents published and among them 354 were articles and 84 were conference papers published by1112 authors from 50 countries. The findings of this study arevital for policy makers, researchers and other working in environmental education and literacy development to understand the potential gaps and strength in the current EL research in Scopus literature.

Scientometric Study of The Research Performance on Biodiversity: The Global Perspective

This paper examines on scientometric study of the research performance on biodiversity with the data that have been collected from Web of Science database. The study period was chosen from 2011 to 2020 and retrieved 11902 records for the study. This study was planned to find out year-wise publications on biodiversity research from 2011 to 2020, to examine authorship patterns, to find out the top twenty authors contributions, to find out top twenty institutions that contributed to biodiversity research, to find top twenty sources contributions and to identify top twenty countries contributed on biodiversity research. It was found that the year-wise biodiversity research publications show an increase trend. Among the 17 different document types, in the form of research articles have 9102 papers. Out of the 40843 authors, Schmidt B has occupied the first position with 56 contributed papers. 97.46% papers were contributed by collaborative authors, and very least number of papers published by single authors’. Totally 178 countries were contributed on biodiversity research publications, amongst India is the fifteenth place with 407 publications.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES RESEARCH (IJVASR): A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

A Scientometric study was performed on 235 research articles published in the Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research (IJVASR). For the current analysis, six volumes of the journal totalling 30 issues from 2016 to 2020 were considered. The amounts of contributions, authorship patterns, author productivity, average article length, and average keyword density have all been examined. Only 20 of the 235 contributions were single-authored, while the rest were multi-authored, with an average degree of collaboration of 0.91 and a week of collaboration between the writers. The increasing tendency of co-authored publications was highlighted by the pattern of co-authorship. According to the research, author productivity is 0.26.

Periodontitis and Low Bone Mineral Density: A Bibliometric Study of the Top 100 cited Articles

Purpose: Science mapping is commonly known as Scientometrics; is used in combination with data visualization to analyze a considerable form of bibliographic resources to study and map the scientific field and thereby serving investigators to concentrate on under investigated areas of research. This scientometric study was aimed: 1) to evaluate the level of investigation in the field of periodontitis and osteoporosis, and 2) to recognize the journals, and countries in this field. Methods: The top hundred articles with most citations were selected by electronic searches in the MEDLINE database, and the citations were cross checked by Google Scholar database. The total number of publications per year along with their yearly growth was calculated. The following data regarding the journal, country of origin, and level of evidence were analysed. Results: 467 authors within 77 clusters contributed to these 100 articles. The annual rate of growth of publications in the period from 2011 to 2020 was 6.27%. The year range of these publications started from 1992 till 2019, the second decade of the new millennium showed the highest number of articles (39 out of 100 articles). Conclusion: Though the number of articles published on the present topic has risen in the last two decades, the proportion of studies with LOE1 is as low as 5%. Therefore, recommendations are made to the researchers to lay emphasis on producing more studies with LOE1 in future.

A Scientometric Study of Foraminiferal Research in Brazil

ABSTRACT Scientometrics is a field of study that involves measuring and analyzing scientific literature and can be a valuable tool to assess and reveal major gaps in national scientific production. Among the major challenges for Brazilian science is the development of research in the extensive national marine realm. This paper provides a scientometric survey of papers involving foraminiferal research in Brazil. The metrics utilized were papers listed in “Capes Portal” and “Scopus” databases up to the year of 2019. A total of 324 papers were found and 177 were selected based upon criteria established. A generalized additive model (GAM) was used to establish a relationship between publications and time. Studies involving foraminifera increased in Brazil from 1952 to 2019. Most studies have been conducted in the southeast region. We identified the need for more research on foraminifera to be carried out in the Brazilian continental margin, especially in the north and northeast regions of the country.