Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)., 2019
This paper examines the conformity of Lotka’s law to authorship distribution in the field of para... more This paper examines the conformity of Lotka’s law to authorship distribution in the field of parasitology using Scopus during 2007-2016. Totally, 5792 articles produced by 3473 unique first authors, was compiled for analysis. Lotka’s law was tested using both generalized and modified forms by using the formula: , the values of the exponent n and the constant c were computed; and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Chi-square tests were applied. The results showed that the Lotka’s law fit to the author productivity distribution pattern in parasitology literature.
This paper examines the validity of Lotka’s law of scientific publication productivity of the art... more This paper examines the validity of Lotka’s law of scientific publication productivity of the articles published on Bell’s palsy disease during 2004-2018. Data for this analysis was retrieved from WOS data base of Clarivate analytics. In this study, the straight and complete count of authorship was used. A total of 4039 articles along with 3384 and 14517 authors were identified by using straight and complete count method of authorship respectively. K-S goodness of- fit statistical test were employed to verify the applicability of Lotka’s law. The results showed that, Lotka’s law fits with the data of straight count of authors. While this law doesn’t find fits to complete count authorship's. Hence, it is concluded that Lotka’s law partially fits with Bell’s palsy literature.
An investigation was made on the authorship pattern in ecological literature, based on the data
c... more An investigation was made on the authorship pattern in ecological literature, based on the data collected from ‘Ecological Applications’ which reveals that 7623 authors have contributed 1923 papers during 2003 to 2012. The study examines authorship and collaboration pattern in the literature pertaining to this journal. Scientometric tools such as collaboration index, collaboration co-efficient have been used. Applicability of Lotka’s law has been tested. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6 authors) were dominant with 60.37% for the study period. The average Collaborative coefficient and Collaborative index are 0.28 and 4.17 respectively.
The present paper is an output of a study carried out to know the scientific work done by Dr. G. ... more The present paper is an output of a study carried out to know the scientific work done by Dr. G. Thanikaimoni in the field of Palynology. The choice of the protagonist is based on his immense contributions at a young age to the field of Palynology. The study shows that Dr. G. Thanikaimoni has published 35 single authored and 21 multiauthored papers during 1965-1991. The paper examines his contributions in the fields of Botany, Palynology and Paleoenvironmental studies, magnitude of his collaborations, and year-wise distribution of his productivity. The paper also highlights the unfinished works left behind by him, due to untimely death at the prime of his career that took five years to be published.
This paper is an attempt to understand the authorship and collaboration pattern in Global Change ... more This paper is an attempt to understand the authorship and collaboration pattern in Global Change Biology (GCB), a monthly journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., USA. The paper brings out the results of a bibliometric study carried of the issues of GCB for study period (i.e. Vol. 9, 2003 to Vol. 18, 2012). The study examines year-wise, authorship pattern and mapping of authors in the literature pertaining to this journal. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6 authors) were dominant with 62.26% for the study period. The average Collaborative Coefficient was 0.303. The most prolific author was P. Ciais (France) with 21 papers with h-index 18.
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of climate change lite... more This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of climate change literature in terms of publication output as per Web of Science® (1991–2012, September). The focus of this analysis is to study the literature on climate change published from five developing countries namely Argentina, Brazil, China, India and Mexico. This paper is a comparative study on year wise, document type, most productive authors, subject wise, journal wise, institution wise, and language wise distributions. 7065 records have been retrieved for climate change for the studies countries. Country-wise climate change records and most prolific authors for the five countries have been identified. Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. Institution-wise climate change records for these countries have also been generated. The topper here is Chinese Academy of Science, China (1843 records). We have grouped the listed publications from Web of Science® under “climate change” into six broad subjects among which “Geosciences (multidisciplinary)” has recorded maximum publications (22.4%) followed by “Environmental Sciences” (21.6%) while “Meteorology and atmospheric sciences” has recorded the least (9.3%). English language occupies the first place with 6882 out of 7065 records for the studied countries.
The journal Ecology is one of the premier journals in the field of ecology, published by the Ecol... more The journal Ecology is one of the premier journals in the field of ecology, published by the Ecological Society of America. Ten volumes of the journal containing 120 issues from 2003 to 2012 have been taken into consideration for the present study that carries out a bibliometric analysis of the 3,359 papers and 164,369 references of this journal. The analysis covers parameters like growth pattern, authorship pattern and author productivity, with most productive countries and institutions. Out of 3,359 contributions, only 410 were single-authored and the rest were multi-authored with a Collaboration Coefficient of 0.21. Applicability of Lotka’s Law has been tested. The most productive institution was the University of California at Davis, with 183 publications. The United States of America topped the list of countries with 2,188 papers, while South Africa occupied eighteenth position.
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of literature in the f... more This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of literature in the field of ecology in terms of publication output using the resource Web of Science®. The focus of this analysis was to study the literature on ecology published in three journals, viz., Ecology Letters, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 2946 records were retrieved for 10 years (2003–2012). The study revealed that multiple authorship in the field with collaborations of two (30.31%) and three authors (19.89%) was dominant. The Degree of collaboration, Collaborative coefficient, and Collaborative index were calculated and the applicability of Lotka’s law was tested. The study identified five-year patterns in research trends, using the three studied journals, to see if the subjects of focus changed within a decade. The most productive institution was University Calif. Davis, USA, followed by University Calif. Santa Barbara, USA, and University Queensland, Australia, and the most productive countries were the USA followed by UK and Canada.
The present study on bibliometric analysis of mangrove reveals that 6331 authors have contributed... more The present study on bibliometric analysis of mangrove reveals that 6331 authors have contributed 3089 articles during 2001 to 2012. Results indicate that highest numbers of papers have been written by co-authors. The mangrove literature was covered by 828 journals among which “Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science” journal stands first with 132 articles. This paper explores the highly cited authors and cited papers from mangrove literature. The h-index (that provides an index based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the Times Cited count) of mangrove literature is 53.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)., 2019
This paper examines the conformity of Lotka’s law to authorship distribution in the field of para... more This paper examines the conformity of Lotka’s law to authorship distribution in the field of parasitology using Scopus during 2007-2016. Totally, 5792 articles produced by 3473 unique first authors, was compiled for analysis. Lotka’s law was tested using both generalized and modified forms by using the formula: , the values of the exponent n and the constant c were computed; and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Chi-square tests were applied. The results showed that the Lotka’s law fit to the author productivity distribution pattern in parasitology literature.
This paper examines the validity of Lotka’s law of scientific publication productivity of the art... more This paper examines the validity of Lotka’s law of scientific publication productivity of the articles published on Bell’s palsy disease during 2004-2018. Data for this analysis was retrieved from WOS data base of Clarivate analytics. In this study, the straight and complete count of authorship was used. A total of 4039 articles along with 3384 and 14517 authors were identified by using straight and complete count method of authorship respectively. K-S goodness of- fit statistical test were employed to verify the applicability of Lotka’s law. The results showed that, Lotka’s law fits with the data of straight count of authors. While this law doesn’t find fits to complete count authorship's. Hence, it is concluded that Lotka’s law partially fits with Bell’s palsy literature.
An investigation was made on the authorship pattern in ecological literature, based on the data
c... more An investigation was made on the authorship pattern in ecological literature, based on the data collected from ‘Ecological Applications’ which reveals that 7623 authors have contributed 1923 papers during 2003 to 2012. The study examines authorship and collaboration pattern in the literature pertaining to this journal. Scientometric tools such as collaboration index, collaboration co-efficient have been used. Applicability of Lotka’s law has been tested. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6 authors) were dominant with 60.37% for the study period. The average Collaborative coefficient and Collaborative index are 0.28 and 4.17 respectively.
The present paper is an output of a study carried out to know the scientific work done by Dr. G. ... more The present paper is an output of a study carried out to know the scientific work done by Dr. G. Thanikaimoni in the field of Palynology. The choice of the protagonist is based on his immense contributions at a young age to the field of Palynology. The study shows that Dr. G. Thanikaimoni has published 35 single authored and 21 multiauthored papers during 1965-1991. The paper examines his contributions in the fields of Botany, Palynology and Paleoenvironmental studies, magnitude of his collaborations, and year-wise distribution of his productivity. The paper also highlights the unfinished works left behind by him, due to untimely death at the prime of his career that took five years to be published.
This paper is an attempt to understand the authorship and collaboration pattern in Global Change ... more This paper is an attempt to understand the authorship and collaboration pattern in Global Change Biology (GCB), a monthly journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., USA. The paper brings out the results of a bibliometric study carried of the issues of GCB for study period (i.e. Vol. 9, 2003 to Vol. 18, 2012). The study examines year-wise, authorship pattern and mapping of authors in the literature pertaining to this journal. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6 authors) were dominant with 62.26% for the study period. The average Collaborative Coefficient was 0.303. The most prolific author was P. Ciais (France) with 21 papers with h-index 18.
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of climate change lite... more This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of climate change literature in terms of publication output as per Web of Science® (1991–2012, September). The focus of this analysis is to study the literature on climate change published from five developing countries namely Argentina, Brazil, China, India and Mexico. This paper is a comparative study on year wise, document type, most productive authors, subject wise, journal wise, institution wise, and language wise distributions. 7065 records have been retrieved for climate change for the studies countries. Country-wise climate change records and most prolific authors for the five countries have been identified. Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. Institution-wise climate change records for these countries have also been generated. The topper here is Chinese Academy of Science, China (1843 records). We have grouped the listed publications from Web of Science® under “climate change” into six broad subjects among which “Geosciences (multidisciplinary)” has recorded maximum publications (22.4%) followed by “Environmental Sciences” (21.6%) while “Meteorology and atmospheric sciences” has recorded the least (9.3%). English language occupies the first place with 6882 out of 7065 records for the studied countries.
The journal Ecology is one of the premier journals in the field of ecology, published by the Ecol... more The journal Ecology is one of the premier journals in the field of ecology, published by the Ecological Society of America. Ten volumes of the journal containing 120 issues from 2003 to 2012 have been taken into consideration for the present study that carries out a bibliometric analysis of the 3,359 papers and 164,369 references of this journal. The analysis covers parameters like growth pattern, authorship pattern and author productivity, with most productive countries and institutions. Out of 3,359 contributions, only 410 were single-authored and the rest were multi-authored with a Collaboration Coefficient of 0.21. Applicability of Lotka’s Law has been tested. The most productive institution was the University of California at Davis, with 183 publications. The United States of America topped the list of countries with 2,188 papers, while South Africa occupied eighteenth position.
This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of literature in the f... more This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively the growth and development of literature in the field of ecology in terms of publication output using the resource Web of Science®. The focus of this analysis was to study the literature on ecology published in three journals, viz., Ecology Letters, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 2946 records were retrieved for 10 years (2003–2012). The study revealed that multiple authorship in the field with collaborations of two (30.31%) and three authors (19.89%) was dominant. The Degree of collaboration, Collaborative coefficient, and Collaborative index were calculated and the applicability of Lotka’s law was tested. The study identified five-year patterns in research trends, using the three studied journals, to see if the subjects of focus changed within a decade. The most productive institution was University Calif. Davis, USA, followed by University Calif. Santa Barbara, USA, and University Queensland, Australia, and the most productive countries were the USA followed by UK and Canada.
The present study on bibliometric analysis of mangrove reveals that 6331 authors have contributed... more The present study on bibliometric analysis of mangrove reveals that 6331 authors have contributed 3089 articles during 2001 to 2012. Results indicate that highest numbers of papers have been written by co-authors. The mangrove literature was covered by 828 journals among which “Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science” journal stands first with 132 articles. This paper explores the highly cited authors and cited papers from mangrove literature. The h-index (that provides an index based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the Times Cited count) of mangrove literature is 53.
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collected from ‘Ecological Applications’ which reveals that 7623 authors have contributed 1923 papers
during 2003 to 2012. The study examines authorship and collaboration pattern in the literature
pertaining to this journal. Scientometric tools such as collaboration index, collaboration co-efficient
have been used. Applicability of Lotka’s law has been tested. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6
authors) were dominant with 60.37% for the study period. The average Collaborative coefficient and
Collaborative index are 0.28 and 4.17 respectively.
wise, and language wise distributions.
7065 records have been retrieved for climate change for the studies countries. Country-wise climate change records and most prolific authors for the five countries have been identified.
Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. Institution-wise climate change records for these countries have also been generated. The topper here is Chinese Academy of Science, China (1843 records). We have grouped the listed publications from Web of Science® under “climate change” into six broad subjects among which “Geosciences (multidisciplinary)” has recorded maximum publications (22.4%) followed by “Environmental Sciences” (21.6%) while “Meteorology and atmospheric sciences” has recorded the least (9.3%). English language occupies the first place with 6882 out of 7065 records for the studied
countries.
collected from ‘Ecological Applications’ which reveals that 7623 authors have contributed 1923 papers
during 2003 to 2012. The study examines authorship and collaboration pattern in the literature
pertaining to this journal. Scientometric tools such as collaboration index, collaboration co-efficient
have been used. Applicability of Lotka’s law has been tested. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6
authors) were dominant with 60.37% for the study period. The average Collaborative coefficient and
Collaborative index are 0.28 and 4.17 respectively.
wise, and language wise distributions.
7065 records have been retrieved for climate change for the studies countries. Country-wise climate change records and most prolific authors for the five countries have been identified.
Authorship and collaboration trend was towards multi-authored papers. Institution-wise climate change records for these countries have also been generated. The topper here is Chinese Academy of Science, China (1843 records). We have grouped the listed publications from Web of Science® under “climate change” into six broad subjects among which “Geosciences (multidisciplinary)” has recorded maximum publications (22.4%) followed by “Environmental Sciences” (21.6%) while “Meteorology and atmospheric sciences” has recorded the least (9.3%). English language occupies the first place with 6882 out of 7065 records for the studied
countries.