The present study has been carried out to find the trend of publications in the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK) for the period 2002–2022 using various scientometric parameters. A total of 2072 articles were published in volumes 1–21 of the journal during this period, and all articles were taken into consideration for the study. Various indicators like distribution of articles over the period, impact factor, time gap in publications, subject-wise distribution of articles, author-wise listing of articles, country-wise listing of articles, degree of collaboration amongst the authors and most cited articles were analysed for this article. The evaluation of the data shows that the flow of articles submitted to the journal has increased in number over the years. The current impact factor (JCR 2022) of the journal is 0.8. The highest number of contributions in single-author papers was observed in 2008 with 25 publications (12.37%). While in multi-authored papers’ maximum contributions were observed in 2010 with 121 papers. The average degree of collaboration is 0.91. The activity index shows the Indian output and world output in terms of publications in the journal. The paper also recognized the most productive authors and highly cited papers.