A bibliometric and visualization analysis of the aerosol research on glaciers in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)

Abstract

Abstract This research focuses on a bibliometric analysis of research on aerosols' impact on the glaciers in the Indian Himalayan region (IHR) published in journals from all subject categories based on the Science Citation Index Expanded, collected from the Web of Science and Scopus database between the years 2002 and April 2022. The indexing phrases like "aerosol," "glacier," and "snow" are commonly used terms and have been utilized to collect the related publications for this investigation. The document selections were based on years of publication, authorship, the scientific output of authors, distribution of publication by country, categories of the subjects, and names of journals in which scholarly papers were published. The journal's impact factor trend, citation trend, and the count of keywords used by authors were also included. The number of articles on aerosols accelerating the melting of glaciers shows a notable increase in recent years, along with more glacier melting results from countries involved in climate science research. China (382) was the country with the highest publication output on aerosols accelerating the melting of glaciers. The United States (367) was the most cited country with about 17500 total citations and 80.40 average citations per year from 2002-April 2022. The results reveal that research trends in the glaciers on aerosols' impact on the glaciers have been attractive in recent years, and the number of articles in this field keeps increasing fast.