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Scientometrics analysis of ‘Astrobiology’ research

Vinay Kumar D, Arun Kumar T S, Santhosh Kumar T S

Abstract


The study is an attempt to quantify the research publications on ‘Astrobiology’. The data pertaining to the study were collected from Web of Science (WoS) database. The bibliographic data of 2723 unique publications published up to 2021 were retrieved from the WoS database. The study found that the growth of literature was gradual. Charles S. Cockell was the most prolific authors whereas Manasvi Lingam was the most promising author for recent years. ‘Astroboilogy’ followed by ‘Astrophysical Journal’ were the most preferred journals by the scholars publishing astrobiology research. However, ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America’ has only 32 articles and the highest number of citations among the highly ranked journals.

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