Scientometric Portrait of Dr. Raghuram Rajan: An Economist and 23rd RBI Governor

Abstract

The purpose of the current research is to summarize the many characteristics of Dr. Raghuram Rajan's research output as one of the outstanding Indian economists. The study is based on publication data from the years 1991 to 2022 those were indexed in the Scopus database. Bradford’s law, the degree of partnerships, authorship patterns, bibliographic coupling, citation analysis, co-authorship authors, and top sources, publishers, and keywords are all aspects covered in this study. In addition to using research topic network parameters, the authors also consider using an open source, one-of-a-kind tool for logical bibliometrics visualisation analysis that was created using the R language, RStudio, and VOSviewer. Dr. Rajan has produced 100 publications in total, with a 4.5 annual growth rate. Out of a total 38 journals and 23 publishers, he has published his papers most frequently in the Finance and Development journals (15 documents). Dr. Rajan's average number of citations per document is 265.8 and his Degree of Collaboration (DC) with other researchers is 0.61. The United States is the primary partner, and Dr. Rajan's study on economic growth appears most frequently in this cooperation.