Trends in Light-Dependent Carbon Assimilation Research Productivity: A Scientometric Study Covering 25 Years

This study aims at evaluating the research productivity of researchers, scientists and faculty from various countries on publications relating to photosynthesis in web of science bibliographic database. Publication productivity is the top most measure in fixing the researcher's performance capability by various national and regional governments. This has necessitated the Librarians and Library and Information Science researchers and Information Scientists to deploy a range of tools and techniques to have a detailed analysis of publications by the faculty and researchers, which also enable to reveal the strength and weakness, the trends that are taking place in the subject, the core journals and publications, the premier organizations and the geographical area, where the particular subject research is gaining the attention, as this would greatly help the national governments in funding and providing the opportunities in the required area of research to have a balanced growth in all fields of life. Scientometrics techniques are engaged to analyze the publications on Photosynthesis studies to identify the trends in publication, thematic pattern and so on. Due to advent of Information Technology which causes emergence of viewer tools, impact factor, h-index, priority index and activity index emphasize the existence and relevance of scientometirc studies even today. In this context scientometrics and bibliometrics research and hence assessment studies always have significant role in Library and Information Science Research. Also this study attempts to explain the theoretical and empirical discussions relating to research publications in Photosynthesis from the various published reports.