Scientometric Portrait of Child Sexual Abuse Research in 21st Century India

The study is a scientometric analysis of the research on sexual abuse during childhood in India. Authors identified 300 articles published on this topic and the highest number of publications (i.e. 42) was the years 2015 and lowest in 2001. Journal articles were the highest in number among different types of publication. The highest number of citations is 5690 published in 2012 and the lowest i.e. 12 published in 2018. There is a positive relationship between time and growth of citation and the overall Degree of Collaboration (C) among the authors i.e. 0.87 indicates a large number of collaborative works among the authors observed. The analysis source title-wise publication showed that the Indian Journal of Psychiatry has received a maximum number of publications.