Authorship Patterns and Degree of Collaboration of Cited Literature in Indian Chemistry Research Publications

Kodandarama; M. Chandrashekara

doi:10.51983/ajist-2020.10.2.307

Authors

Kodandarama Research Scholar,Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India
M. Chandrashekara Professor, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ajist-2020.10.2.307

Keywords:

Citation analysis, authorship pattern and degree of collaboration

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the authorship patterns and degree of collaboration of Indian research publications in the field of Chemistry. The main data source for the study is the citations/references of research publications of chemistry indexed in Web f Science during the period 2009-2018. The research method of this study was citation analysis method. Findings of the analysis revealed that the majority of the publications are contributed by multiple authors and the degree of collaboration found to be very high in cited journal literature compared to books and other forms of citations.

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