An Evaluation of "Open Science" Research Productivity: A Scientometric Study

The paper analysed 2199 papers published in “Open Science” Research during the period of 2001-2021.Open Science is a set of practices that increase the transparency and accessibility of scientific research. It investigate the exponential growth rate, productive country, organizations, document type, language, productive institutions, productive country, top most journals, prolific authors, key words used and most cited papers. Scientometric methods were employed for investigation. Web of Science database was used for data retrieval. Results showed that there was an upward trend in the growth and development of publications on Open Science, the year of 2021 showed highest growth rate, journal articles are the dominant documents, university of oxford (UK) produced more publications, USA most productive country, journal of neurochemistry published more articles, Krumholz HM of Yale University the most prolific author, most cited paper are recently identified. The study is useful to LIS and Open Science researchers, faculty members and students