Bibliometric Study of Scientific Literature of Banaras Hindu University, India: A Picture from Scopus Database

Abstract

This study reveals the research productivity in the Banaras Hindu University, The study portraits the usage of a number of facets of Bibliometrics with the collected from most widely used, world’s largest abstract and citation database Scopus. The publication data for individual university were searches with the help of affiliation search option of the database. The collected records have been analyzed to identify the distributions of records in term of block wise, source wise, document wise and collaboration with countries during the study period of 10 years. The study showed that the growth rate of research publications of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India has also increased gradually. Most of these publications contributed to subjects Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics followed by Chemistry and so on. The lead source titles used for publications are Current Science, Rsc Advances etc.