Nutrition Research Productivity and Trends in India: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Nutrition is an important supplement for the growth and the development of the human beings. In this pandemic of COVID19, the health has become a prime importance and whole world focusing on building immunity by maintain the balanced and healthy diet. Many researchers put emphasis on what to eat when to eat and how maintain all the nutrients. Looking to the importance of the field, in this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the literature available on Nutrition. Bibliometrics is a statistical tool used to analyse the track of researcher output and its impact. For this the bibliometric analysis was carried to predict the most prolific authors, journals, growth of literature, country collaboration. The data was retrieved from the web of science; it is the world’s most trusted global citation database. In total there are 3686 articles published on Nutrition from 2010 to 2019, in India. Most of the publication output is in Journal of Food Science and Technology, Mysore with 114 publications and 3355 citations. The top ranked author is Kumar A with 78 articles and 1280 citations. It was observed that there is continuous growth in literature and henceforth, it’s a time to adopt a holistic life to have natural immunity by natural food.