Mapping the Social Science Research Landscape in India: A Bibliometric Study

LIBRARY HERALD

Year : 2026, Volume : 64, Issue :2

First page :(245)Last page :(258)

Print ISSN : 0024-2292. Online ISSN : 0976-2469.

Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-2469.2026.00021.7

Mapping the Social Science Research Landscape in India: A Bibliometric Study

Shilpa Awasthi1, Sharad Kumar Sonkar2, Manorma Tripathi3

1 Assistant Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

2 Professor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, UP, India

3 Acting Librarian, JNU, Delhi, india

Abstract

This study is directed towards highlighting the research output produced in India between 2015 to 2025 in the sphere of social sciences and humanities (SSH) discipline. The study is centred on the data extracted from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), which forms a fundamental part of the Web of Science (WoS), a bibliographic database from Clarivate. The study considered 32182 publications in the area of social science research. The Vos Viewer and R software have been utilized extensively to analyse and envision the data. Some areas that are considered to be prominent are Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health, business and economics, and health-related topics in which the research has been conducted. Kumar, Satish is the most productive author with 218 documents and 294 link strengths. IIMs and IITs are the most productive systems, and there has been a steep rise in publications over the last ten years.

Keywords

Bibliometrics; Social Sciences; India; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)