A Bibliometric Perspective of Social Science Scientific Communities of Pakistan and India

TL;DR

This study analyzes social science research collaboration networks between India and Pakistan using bibliometric data, revealing limited cross-border collaboration despite shared social issues and values.

Contribution

It provides a bibliometric analysis of social science communities in India and Pakistan, highlighting collaboration patterns and common research themes.

Findings

Limited collaboration between India and Pakistan social science communities.

Shared research themes include poverty, education, and gender issues.

Potential for increased cross-border research collaboration.

Abstract

In this study, we use research publication data from the field of social science to identify collaboration networks among social science research communities of India and Pakistan. We have used Scopus database to extract information of social science journals for both countries India and Pakistan. Study of this data is significant as both countries have common social issues and many of common social values. Keywords analysis has been done to see common research areas in both communities like poverty, education, the issue of gender etc. Despite having many of the common social issues, collaboration among social science research communities of both countries is not strong.