Reshma Vattekkad ^* Manikandan Krishnan

• The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University), Gandhigram, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, Dindigul, India

Through an extensive bibliometric examination among the existing research work on the nexus concerning millet and climate change, this present investigation aims to shed light on the conceptual framework in this field and identify the most prolific sources, authors, documents, and nations. Additionally, we analyse the network of authors and provide an overview of new developments.The current investigation examined 877 documents extracted from the Scopus repository that were produced by various researchers during 1997 and 2023. These papers have been analysed with the help of "bibliometrix," an application of R, and CiteSpace. With 68% of the articles published during the six preceding years, there has been increasing focus among researchers in this discipline. The findings indicate that several authors have been involved in this field, which is evident from the analysis that 98.64% of the papers were multi-authored. The journal "Frontiers in Plant Science" and "Sultan B" are the most prominent sources and authors, respectively. India is the most productive country, and ICRISAT, the most prolific institution in this field, indicates that emerging economies are also interested in this area of research. However, the dataset does not follow the bibliometric law "Lotka's law". Two major themes were identified: (i) climate change and agriculture and (ii) millets, their types, and climate change. Emerging areas include "climate change adaptation," "subsistence strategy," "drought stress qualities of millet," "drought tolerance characteristics of millets," "climate smart agriculture," and "climate variability" with "millet". However, only the scientific publications extracted from the Scopus database were examined. Furthermore, the present investigation included only those articles and reviews published in English between 1997 and 2023. The present article provides a number of options for academics and researchers as this is an initial attempt to evaluate the millet climate-related literature using a bibliometric method. This work contributes to expanding this subject by offering recommendations for more research.