Publishing Trends in Indian Literary Writings: A Bibliometric Analysis of Indian Literature (2013-2015)

Abstract

The present study is the bibliometric analysis of the publishing trends in literary writings of India, published by Sahitya Akademi (National Akademi of Letters) for a period of three years (2013-2015). As many as 545 articles published during this period were undertaken for the study. The study includes year-wise, issue-wise, subject/genre-wise, and language-wise publication of writings, comparison of Writings (Original vs. Translated) and most prolific contributors, etc. It reveals that most of the writings are translated from other Indian languages into English. It also reveals that poetry is the most popular form of writing in Indian Literature.