A Bibliometric Analysis (2008 to 2023) on Legume Research Journal-Uncovering Scientific Impact

Background: A potent instrument for quantitative evaluation in the context of academia and research is bibliometric analysis. It offers data-driven insights that support qualitative evaluations, facilitating decision-making and advancing knowledge of the academic environment as a whole. With this back ground work we selected legume research journal as on interest and performed bibliometric analysis. Methods: Bibliometric analysis of legume research is a systematic method of evaluating scholarly publications and their impact within a specific field of study from 2008 to 2023 (15 years). The analysis was done by using Bibliometrix tool using R Studio and R software. The study was conducted during July-November, 2023 at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Result: Legume research journal have an h-index of 18, g index of 26 and h index of 1.3 based on local source impact. The analysis revealed that it has 2076 documents with growth rate of 7.37. Higher annual production was in 2022 with 236 articles and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University highly contributing institute. But according to author impact h index was for Kumar R with 9 with 11 publications in the year 2022 with citation score of 1.5. The most frequent word used in ‘key word plus’ was Cicer arietinum (52 times) appeared in 10% of the documents and changes in the trend topics from bacteria in 2008 to Lens culinaris in 2023. Dhakal Y (58) has the highest global cited documents. Cicer arietinum, Vigna mungo and Pisum sativum were the basic themes. Gomez KA and Jakson ML was had highest co citation. India is most cited country with 3,783 citations and highest in production with 6,414 articles. Bangladesh to Malaysia (Frequency @12) have strongest collaboration between them. The bibliometric analysis concludes that there is an increasing interest in the study of legumes, which is consistent with the knowledge of the value of legumes for nutrition and sustainable agriculture. To further our understanding in these important areas, future research should investigate the influence of climate change on legume production, use multidisciplinary approaches, and solve identified gaps.