Scientometric Portrait of Hari Chand Sharma an Outstanding Agricultural Scientist

Abstract

An analysis of 595 documents produced by Dr Hari Chand Sharma indicates that about 45 per cent of these were published as journal articles. Most of the research papers were published in journals originating from the UK, the USA and the Netherlands in medium impact factor journals. He has produced majority of his publications in collaboration with other scientists and had collaborated with more than 1,000 authors as indicated by high value of collaboration coefficient (0.66) and collaboration rate of 1.00 for considerable number of years. He was most productive during the age of 58-60 year. The high value of citations per paper indicated that the research outputs of Dr Sharma were part of the main stream science.