Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time of Publications on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics: A Study

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Krishna S. Maraddi¹, P. S. Kattimani², and Vidya V. Hanchinal³ (Deputy Librarian, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad¹, Librarian, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi², and Librarian, SKM’s J M Patel College of Commerce, Goregaon (W), Mumbai³)

The relative growth rate (RGR) and doubling time (Dt) of journal publications on the productivity of bibliometrics and scientometrics research at the world level from 1969 to 2022 and the Indian level from 1983 to 2022 are considered for this study. It was discovered that the search results for articles published in journals received 36328 and 2771 publications at the global and Indian level respectively. It is found from the results of the study that the decreasing trend in RGR and increasing rate of Dt in publications suggests that growth is not exponential. The global relative growth of bibliometric and scientometric articles declined from 0.693 in 1970 to 0.207 in 2022, while the doubling time increased from 1.000 in 1970 to 3.352 in 2022. The significant results of the study revealed that the number of journal publications from India is increasing linearly.