Indian Horticulture Research Trends: A Study of PhD Researches Conducted in Indian Universities and Institutions

Abstract

Horticulture is the most important in our daily living. Human body requires vitamins, minerals, proteins, energy etc. for its health and all these are supplied by horticultural crops. The significance of any field is analyased by growth of the research on that field. So, in the present study the characteristics of the theses on horticulture from 1952 to 2017 in India have been explored. The data was obtained from the IndCat and analysed on the various parameters such as publishing universities, paper growth, most productive department, advisor productivity, keywords/subject used. The data consist of 1594 theses, among which the most of the contributions was from Himachal Pradesh and University at the top was Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry. The top three departments are Horticulture, Agricultural and Vegetable Crop with 1092 theses.