Scholarly Communications on “Mizo” in Global Context: A Scientometric Analysis through Scopus

Abstract

The study focuses on the evaluation of research contributions on "Mizo" at a global level through the Scopus database. Different scientometric aspects have been applied to evaluate the research performance. The study observed 79 scholarly communications through the Scopus database on "Mizo" at world level during the period of 1973-2021. Scholarly research on "Mizo" is a recent phenomenon and gained momentum after 2018. The majority of the research is from the last ten years. Citation growth is at par with publication growth in "Mizo" research and study observed 3.03 citations per paper. Sarmah P has been found as the top contributor in terms of publications and citations while amongst Mizo contributors Lalhminghlui W achieved the place. About 1/4 of the contributors belong to the Mizo community amongst the 164 total contributors. The study observed a strong degree of collaboration among contributors due to the prevalent multiple authorship patterns. The research on “Mizo” was published by 8 foreign nations besides India, which demonstrates its significance at an international level. Research on “Mizo” has been funded by foreign funding agencies along with Indian R&D agencies. "Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH" appeared to be the top source for publishing research on “Mizo”. Keyword analysis reveals that ‘mizo’ and their linguistic concerns are at the heart of the study. The study holds reader’s interest due to first in the area.