Economics, econometrics and finance research in India during 2004-2018: a scientometric assessment

Kaustuv Chakrabarti, Dhiman Mondal

Abstract


The present scientometric study explores the scholarly communication trend of the Indian economists for last 15 years period which covers pre-global financial crisis phase to pre-COVID-19 economic recession phase as reflected in the Scopus multidisciplinary database. The Indian economists authored total 11,625 research articles comprising 21.55% international collaborated articles. The bibliographical details of the articles have been analysed on the basis of different aspects like chronological distribution, collaboration, authorship, productive authors, leading countries, institutions, preferred journals and citation impact. The United States secured leading position among the most collaborating countries and the Jawaharlal Nehru University contributed majority of articles. Further, the Economic and Political Weekly journal was found as the most favoured journal. The study also recommended that the nation’s new economic strategy should be formulated immediately to face the upcoming challenges of the COVID-19 crisis.


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