Research Productivity of Green Economics Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract :

This article has made an attempt to study the research productivity of Green economics literature. Nowadays, Bibliometrics is an interdisciplinary method and apply irrespective of subjects and branches in common, library and information science in particular.Green economy is an economy that results in reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment.For this study the researcher applied the search string “Green Economics” on Scopus database and downloaded a total of 3,464 documents during 2001- 2014..The following bibliographic parameters were taken for analyses and the results were brought under the year wise distribution, author wise distribution, source wise, document type wise, affixation wise, country wise and subject wise and ranked its each category of research productivity.

Author Name : Duraipandi. R

Keywords: Green Economics, Bibliometrics, Scopus Database, Bibliographic Output.