Occurrence of author keywords and keywords plus in social sciences and humanities research : A preliminary study

Keywords are important words and phrases of a research paper, expressing its essence. The longitudinal study of occurrence of keywords in specific discipline expresses trends of research. The present paper attempts to highlight trends of research in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines in India, published during the time period, 2005 to 2014, by studying the keywords and keywords plus, assigned by the authors and Web of Science respectively. The study highlights the research themes which have been pursued by the Indian researchers during the ten year period. It also attempts to spotlight the extent of similarity between authors’ assigned keywords and WOS assigned keyword plus in the SSH publication from India. Descriptive and inferential statistics techniques have been applied in the study. Web of science was used for collecting the data.