A Bibliometric Study of ‘‘Bhartiya Krishi Anushandhan Patrika’’ from 2016 to 2021

Background: This article analysis 400 articles published in “Bhartiya Krishi Anushandhan Patrika” journal during 2016-2021 to ascertain year-wise distribution, authorship pattern, length of articles, subject categories and citation-wise distribution of articles.
Methods: Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to study and measure the uses of documents and patterns of publication in which mathematical and statistical methods are applied. 
Result: We found a total contribution of 400 research outputs with the remarkable contribution of 1477 eminent scholars. The findings of the analysis represented that the maximum number of articles 75 with 18.75% sharing were published in 2016 and on the opposite hand the year 2020 got the minimum contribution got with merely 54 (13.50%) publications. The result of the study proved that joint authors contributed (380) to the majority of the publications. The study investigated, the minimum contribution average author per article 3.97 in the year 2017 and a minimum of 3.33 in the year 2021. The highest Author Productivity per year is 1.624. Veterinary Science got the first rank in the contribution of scientific research publication (97), Agronomy ranked second with 71 articles and extension education achieved the third rank with 40 contributions. It is noted that the maximum citation (4379 out of 955) were used in the year 2021.