Altmetric study of Indian Agricultural and Biological Sciences Publications Covered by Scopus Narrow Subject fields

This study examined Scopus-indexed articles in Agricultural and Biological Sciences from Scopus narrow subject fields, focusing on the relationship between citations and readership among Indian publications. The study retrieved 15,700 articles from the Scopus database, of which 83.25% with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) were suitable for Mendeley readership. 99.96% of DOI articles matched the Mendeley API to measure readership. 94.39% of DOI articles had at least one reader, whereas 84.66% had at least one citation. The "Food Science" field had the highest citation and readership (18.51% and 19.72%, respectively) among all Agricultural and Biological Science narrow subject fields. The "Forestry" fields had the highest mean and standard deviation (SD) values for citation (18.27 and 29.78) and readership (49.05 and 69.39). Data skewness varied among subject fields, with "Food Science" and "Soil Science" showing the highest and lowest for both citations and readership. The geometric mean was similar to the mean value for the "Food Science" field for citation and readership variables. The mean normalization log-transforms citation score revealed that the "Plant Science" field had a higher value of 1.000124 with a group indicator for readership. Almost all narrow subject fields demonstrated strong positive correlations between citations and readership, ranging from 0.716 to 0.847.