Crop Productivity and Scientific Research Productivity in Horticulture : A Quadratic Relationship

摘要

Measurement of scientific productivity using scientometric indicators is easy in basic sciences. The measurement is difficult in agricultural sciences as the end user could be a farmer, industrialist or entrepreneur. Research findings of immense uses to the fishermen are published in journals of low impact factor. One such finding helped to enhance the fisheries productivity by five times. A research finding supported by related research and development efforts in needy areas could make quantum jumps in productivity like Green revolution. Some research finding could create lot of impact among researchers. Tissue culture medium developed by Murashige and Skoog could be an example. Bhat attempted to know the proportion of literature published in each crop as well as each area of specialization using the world horticultural literature published in 1970-89. The study indicates the large discrepancies in the amount of research effort devoted to crops in relation to the size of the industry concerned.