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This study reflects the quantitative measurement of 1102 articles appeared on ‘Plagiarism’ during 2021-2022. The paper presents the quantitative assessment of this area in terms of total publications; top keywords; top authors, institutions, country, language etc.. This paper reveals various latest trends of this area.

1. To findout source wise distribution of publications on plagiarism literature; 2. To findout top authors; country; institution; language and top cited articles in this area.

Prajapati et al. (2021) in their study entitled “Mapping of Research Productivity on Green Building: A Bibliometric Study” examined   the productivity on this  topic from 2012 to 2021. The data was collected from the SCOPUS database. The study presented the the year wise distribution of publications,most productive authors,most productive journals, most preferred language and most productive country. Parmar and et al (2021) in their paper entitled “Reflections to Research Productivity of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana (India) from 2011-2020 : A bibliometric Analysis” reflects the total research output of KUK ;top contributed authors,most preferred journals by KUK etc.Bansal, Sonia (2019) in the study entitled “A Bibliometric analysis of Research Output on aromatherapy” has analysed quantitative assessment on aromatherapy during 2001 to 2015.The required data was derived from Pub Med database.

For this study, data is collected for two years from Scopus database.The data was extraced using the following string “TITLE-ABSKEY ( plagiarism ) AND PUBYEAR >2020 AND PUBYEAR < 023 AND PUBYEAR 2020 AND PUBYEAR < 2023.

1. Type of Source of Publications during 2021-2022

Table 1 highlights the  different categories of source which  produced the publication on plagiarism during the reserch period.It is  found that majority of publications produced  by the Journals (72.96%  ), followed  by conference proceedings (17.33%), Book series (7.89%  ), book (1.72%  ) and one publication appeared in trade journal.
Table 1: Type of Source of Publications during 2021-2022

S.No.	Source	Total Publication(TP)	% of TP
1	Journal	804	72.96
2	Conference Proceeding	191	17.33
3	Book Series	87	7.89
4	Book	19	1.72
5	Trade Journal	1	0.09
	Total	1102	100.00

2. Top Five Keywords

Table 2 presents the top five keywords used in these publications. The keyword “Plagiarism “ is found on top with 39.93% hits of total publications, followed by ‘Human’(14.34%) , ‘Intellectual property”(13.88%), ‘Plagiarism Detection’ (13.16%) and Publishing (10.25%).

Table 2: Top Five Keywords

S.No.	Keywords	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	Plagiarism	440	39.93
2	Human	158	14.34
3	Intellectual Property	153	13.88
4	Plagiarism Detection	145	13.16
5	Publishing	113	10.25
	Total	1009	91.56

3. Top Five Countries

Table 3 shows that on this subject, United States contributed highest publications with 12.70% output of total.India secured the second position with 10.44% contribution. A total of 42.20% was contributed by top five countries as reflected in the table.

Table 3: Top Five Countries

S.No.	Country	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	United States	140	12.70
2	India	115	10.44
3	China	92	8.35
4	United Kingdom	63	5.72
5	Australia	55	4.99
	Total	465	42.20

4. Top Five Institutions

Table 4 explored that ‘The University of Newcastle,Australia’ is the top institution that produced highest publications followed by ‘King Abdulaziz University’.all these top five institution contributed 4.08% output of total.
Table 4: Top Five Institutions

S. No.	Institution	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	The University of Newcastle, Australia	13	1.18
2	King Abdulaziz University	11	1.00
3	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	7	0.64
4	University of Oxford	7	0.64
5	Universitas Kristen Maranatha	7	0.64
	Total	45	4.08

5. Top Five Most Productive Authors

Table 5  shows that ‘Karnalim,O’ is the most prolific author with contribution of seven publications on plagiarism followed by Hu,G. on second number.

Table 5: Top Five Most Productive Authors

S.No.	Author	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	Karnalim, O.	7	0.64
2	Hu, G.	5	0.45
3	Simon	5	0.45
4	Akbari, A.	4	0.36
5	Alawad, A.A.	4	0.36
	Total	25	2.27

6. Top Five  Languages

Table 6 shows that English is the top language which contribute on this topic. It shows that English is most preferred international language.This language contributed 93.19% of total publications followed by Spanish with 3.27% contribution.Top five language produced a total of 98.55% reserch output on this subject.
Table 6: Top Five  Languages

S.No	Language	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	English	1027	93.19
2	Spanish	36	3.27
3	Russian	12	1.09
4	Portuguese	6	0.54
5	Chinese	5	0.45
	Total	1086	98.55

7. Top Five Most Productive Source/Journals

Table 7 shows the top five journals which had published 9.17% share of total publications.Accountability in Research was most preferred source for publication followed by Journal of Academic Ethics.

Table 7 : Top Five Most Productive Source/Journals

S. No.	Journal	TP (1102)	% of TP
1	Accountability In Research	24	2.18
2	Journal of Academic Ethics	23	2.09
3	International Journal For Educational Integrity	19	1.72
4	Lecture Notes In Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence And Lecture 5Notes In Bioinformatics	19	1.72
5	Library Philosophy And Practice	16	1.45
	Total	101	9.17

8.  Top Five Most Cited Paper

Table  8 presents that “Impact on the virtual learning environment due to covid-19” authored by Martín C.T., Acal C., Honrani M.E., Estrada Á.C.M published in 2021 received highest citations (58) followed by the publication of ‘Jing N., Liu Q., Sugumaran V’ with 33 publications.

Table 8: Top Five Most Cited Paper

Authors	Title	Year	Source title	Cited by
Martín C.T., Acal C., Honrani M.E., Estrada Á.C.M.	Impact on the virtual learning environment  due to covid-19	2021	Sustainability (Switzerland)	58
Jing N., Liu Q., Sugumaran V.	A blockchain-based code copyright management system	2021	Information Processing & Management	33
Reardon S.	Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies	2021	Nature	25
Cuadrado D., Salgado J.F., Moscoso S.	Personality, intelligence, and counterproductive academic behaviors: A meta-analysis.	2021	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	23
Mahmoud A., Zrigui M.	Semantic similarity analysis for corpus development and paraphrase detection in arabic	2021	International Arab Journal of Information Technology	17

This paper presents an overview of publications output on Plagiarism. It is found that English is thew most contributed language in this field during the study.It was observed that United Kingdom was on top in countrywise output.India also appeared second top country in research output on this subject.The study provides a map of research productivity on this subject of top five countries,languages,institutions,keywords, Authors, sources etc.

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