Authors : A. Issac Newton and P. Gomathi
Abstract: Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate. There is great debate among many people and sometimes in the news on whether global warming is real. Study particularly concentrated about scientometric on the records indexed in the web of science database during the period 2008-2017, i.e., for 10 years on global warming. The researcher’s analysed the research publication that has been published only on ‘Global Warming’ climate and retrieved 19969 records. Methodology of this study was downloaded articles from the web of science database; the search term used was "Global warming" and considered as central keyword of the topic discussed. Each record contains English language abstract with the bibliographic information, e.g., researcher, name of journal, researcher address, affiliation, key words and cited items, etc., the downloaded data was analyzed for source items to find out the research trend. The downloaded data has been stored in MS-Excel files for further analysis. Objectives of the researche has been done under the growth of scholarly publications, ranked list of journals, form wise distribution of records, authorship pattern and researchers productivity, country-wise productivity, year wise distribution of records etc.
A. Issac Newton and P. Gomathi, 2019. Research Output on Global Warming: A Scientometric Analysis. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 2022-2031.