Growth of Literature and Citation Impact in Geography: a Bibliometric Approach

Author(s)	Dr. Asish Maity
Country	India
Abstract	The present paper taken an attempt to discover growth of publications output and citation study of the subject Geography, retrieved from Web of Science (WoS) for the during period 1994-2014. A total number of 12,318 research documents were published and total 1, 50,929 citations were received. After analyzed data the outcomes of the study are: USA contributed highest number of research documents 3759, which global contribution is 30% but England received highest number of citation 58158; Italy was received highest (20.35) Average Citation per Paper (ACP) in respect of published 115 paper and 2340 citations; most of the research papers 859 in the year 2012. This study uses different parameters Types of documents, prolific authors, publication with citation trends between different countries, average growth rate of publication, and most productive source title in the field of Geography.
Keywords	Citation, Geography, Web of Science, Average growth rate, Bibliometric, Scientometrics.
Field	Sociology > Data / Information / Statistics
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-11-23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2165
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hbdsvs

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