Abstract

The study examines India’s performance in Plantation Crops literature published during 1998 - 2007. The study was undertaken using Horticultural Science Database. The plantation crops are high value commercial crops of greater economic importance and play a vital role in our Indian economy. India enjoys the pride of leading in the production of plantation crops throughout the world. Hence, the R&D activity is assumed to be very high on this subject.  The major plantation crops are coconut, arecanut, rubber, tea, coffee, oil palm, cashew and cocoa. Amongst these categories, quantum of publications on ‘coconut’ is found to be the largest followed by tea in India. This paper investigates the most prolific authors, primary institutions and key journals in major plantation crops are identified and critically examined for its features. 

Key words: Plantation crops, quantitative analysis, scientometics, R&D output.