Scientometric Portrait of Stephen Hawking - the British Physicist and Cosmologist

Abstract

The study has been confined to the contributions and the citations received by the famous British physicist and cosmologist Stephen William Hawking reported in the Google scholar database. It investigates the total number of contributions and the most productive years of the great scientist along with the authorship pattern of the contributions made by him and identifying the publishers, who published maximum number of Hawking's works. The study also aims to identify the core journals producing most of his works and finds Physical Review D followed by Physical letters B publishing most of his works, and reveals maximum number of works are contributed in the year 1996; American Physical Society published maximum works; Single authored papers are predominant;Most
of Hawking's works are published in English language.  Hawking's books received maximum number of citations followed by research articles. MLodinow is found to be the most prolific author working in collaboration with Hawking followed by Penrose.The priority areas in the subject can be identified from the study and the study helps in re-looking into the papers which find utmost importance by studying their citations.