From forest to life: A bibliometric analysis of livelihood transitions in the Pahadi Korwa community

Pahadi Korwa community is Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) has gone through major shifts in livelihoods in last 20 years. The community has traditionally depended on shifting cultivation, hunting and non-timber forest products but with the coming of the state intervention, integration in market, and sociocultural change it has increasingly taken to settled agricultural production, wage employment, and self-help group based business. This paper reflects on bibliometric analysis of 112 of academic publications, policy reports, and ethnographic articles that were published between 2000 and 2025 to outline the current tendencies, research themes, and knowledge gaps in the study of the Pahadi Korwa. The results indicate an overall increase in the number of publications with every ten-year leap, peaking in relation to current debates concerning the rights of indigenous people and the Forest Rights Act (2006) with forests and livelihoods, land rights and food security, women empowerment, migration, and sustainable practices being amongst the key ones and collaborative and yet focused group of authors contributing to the area. The state programs, grassroot operations, and community-led efforts have opened up an avenue of education, healthcare, and income diversification, is still problem matters of malnutrition, environment degradation, gaps in policies, and cultural erosion.