Context: Indian Research Journal of Extension Education (IRJEE) holds a prominent position in the domain of academic publishing of multidisciplinary research articles with a special emphasis on extension education and other extant social issues farming community. The present article envisages a comprehensive bibliometric content analysis of IRJEE. Objective: This study aims to identify the trend of research in IRJEE and to analyse the content of the articles published in the IRJEE in terms of length and structure of the article, authorship pattern, geographical distribution pattern, authors’ subject specialisation, types of investigation, theoretical framework, research methods applied, sampling design, data collection technique, method of data analysis, target population, research areas, authors’ institutional pattern, time taken from submission to acceptance and ten best article citations. Method: The main investigation was based on the publication data of IRJEE available in the website from 2012 to 2023. The complete enumeration of 1280 IRJEE publications are taken into consideration. The data were collected, organized and analysed for different aspects. The bibliometric analysis was based on the publication data of IRJEE available in the Crossref. All available documents were analysed by using VOSviewer package. Results and discussion: The study identified the categories of published articles in terms of full paper (84.14%), joint authorship (60.47%), highest contribution from South India (24.30%), agricultural extension domain (53.58%), descriptive investigation method (61.02%), reflective thinking framework (42.19%), survey research (68.52%), simple random sampling for sampling (46.64%), personal interview method (55.39%), correlation analysis (34.92%), farmers orientation(54.45%), adoption/innovation study (22.19%), communicated from national institutes (95.39%), submission to acceptance time 1-2 months (40.00%) and ten best articles had citations between 5-10 times (87.73%). The bibliometric study identified the co-authorship pattern, co-citation pattern and co-occurrence pattern. A good number of papers received from international authors and their citations were quite high which indicates the quality of papers and outreach of the IRJEE among international authors. Significance: The study confirms the result of content analysis through bibliometric study. The study also identified the distinctive situations revealing the growth and development of the journal IRJEE, coming up with worthwhile viewpoint for the researchers, stakeholders and beneficiaries of this journal.

Keyword: Bibliometric, Content analysis, Crossref, Indian Research Journal of Extension Education (IRJEE), Social Sciences, VOSviewer package,