Bibliometric Analysis on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with Emphasis on “Poverty and Hunger”

Abstract

Millennium development goals (MDGs) are the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) initiative launched in the year 2000 with eight objectives and twenty-one milestones to be achieved by 2015. Thus, it is a global agreement and collaborative action. (Hulme, 2009) Poverty is not a new concept, rather it is found in every sphere of life; not only this, it also stirs a lot of misgiving; and as a result, it has a very devastating effect on its victims. Henceforth, the principal threshold of the paper is to exhibit a sketch on the work done on “Millennium Development Goals” through its bibliometric analysis. Therefore, the paper highlights a descriptive-quantitative analysis of the concept of Millennium Development Goal- 1 A for the last twenty-one years, i.e., 2000-2021 and SciVerse Scopus was used to collect the research publications on MDGs. The results of the study show that the Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences (MJSS) has contributed plenty of publications on the theme “Millennium Development Goals” and “Poverty and Hunger”. With respect to most contributing authors, the Author Fukuda-Parr S has got the maximum number of the papers and also had the highest h-index. Further the keyword mapping results emphasised that in all the seven clusters - “Millennium Development” is the predominant word followed by child mortality, maternal mortality, drinking water, sanitation, environmental sustainability etc.