A MAPPING STUDY ON OCEANOGRAPHY FROM 2015 TO 2019: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

The present study investigates a Mapping Study on Oceanography from 2015 to 2019: A Scientometric Study. The oceanography is essential in the blue revolution of the agriculture and related fields. The data have been extracted from the Scopus database by using the key term of Oceanography. The selected period for study is five years (2015 -2019). Totally 19,316 publications were found in the period, and the most of the publications were in 2019. The Relative Growth Rate in 2016 increases (0.72) and minimum in 2019, is 0.25 decreases. It shows the result of maximum 1.11 and annual growth rate was recorded in the year 2017, a minimum of 0.98 ARoG in the year 2018. In the author wise analysis, it is found that Xie, S.P. has published 46 publications. In the selected period, 74.02 per cent of publications were articles, and others were only 73.27. In the topic wise analysis, publications on Earth and Planetary Sciences were more in number, which are 13443 (69.60%).