A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE ( )

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1 A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE ( ) C.Suresh*, Dr.R.Hema**, N.Sankarasubramaniam*** *Professional Assistant, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry **Assistant Librarian (SS), Pondicherry University, Pondicherry ***Assistant Librarian Pondicherry ABSTRACT This paper discuss with Scientometric analysis of the Indian Journal of Horticulture during The aim of this study is to findout year wise distributions, authorship pattern, relative growth rate, doubling time, geographical distributions and collaboration research in field Horticulture. Scientometric analysis for this study the volume of was taken into consideration of 714 articles published in source journal during the year Out of 714 articles 33 (3.63%) of them published in (16.94 %) of them published in (16.80 %) of them published in (16.80%) of them published in (16.80%) of them published in 014. It is evident from the table that the highest 33 (3.63%) articles published in the year of 010. It is observed that totally 33 authors contributed for paper publishing in the year 010. Totally 11authors contributed in the year of authors contributed in the year of authors contributed during the years It is observed from the table more authors 33 (3.63%) contributed in the year of 010. It is observed from the table that more than three authored 341(47.75 %) papers occupied the 1st rank. Three authored paper 0 (8.9%) comes in nd rank. Two authored paper 15 (1.8 %) occupied in 3 rd rank. Single author papers 19 (.66 %) occupy the 4th rank in this study. It is found that.66 % of the papers are published by single author and % of the papers are published by multi author during the study period. Among the five years of the study period the highest degree of collaboration occurred during the year 011 and 013. The Growth rate is 0.41in 010 and which decreased up to 0.19 in 014. The mean relative Growth rate for the periods of 010 to 014 the relative growth rate of 0.4. This study period resulted that the mean doubling time for total output.158. During the analysis it has been observed that most of the articles contributed from India. It is observed that highest number of contributors are belong to India with 688 articles out of 714 total articles published and its percentage is 96.35% and it is followed by Iran with the publication of 8 articles with the percentage of 1.1%. During the analysis Indian Agricultural Research Institute topped with 159 (.6%) publications; next Punjab Agricultural University India has 40 (5.60 %) of publications. Keywords; Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Scientometric Analysis, Authorship Pattern, Degree of Collaboration, Indian Journal of Horticulture. Page 86

2 INTRODUCTION; Scientometrics study is a branch of bibliometrics. It is an important research tools for understanding the subjects it aims at measuring the utility of documents and relationships between documents and fields. Scientometrics is a type of research method used in Library and Information Science. It is an application of mathematical and statistical methods of various aspects of literature on a topic and is used to identify the pattern of publication authorship and secondary journal coverage with the objective of getting an insight into the dynamics of growth of knowledge. It provides tools for the evaluation of scientific research. Scientometrics those most scientific discoveries and research results eventually are published in international scientific journal where they can be read and acted by other researchers. Scientometrics analyses have attracted much attention within the past years. REVIEW OF LITERATURE; The number of authors contributing to scholarly publications in terms of authorship pattern is an instructing part of any bibliometric study. A count of number of authors contributing to articles offers some indication to degree of collaboration between authors. Mamdapur, Ghouse Modin N., Rajgoli, Iqbalahmad U. and Mamdapur, AasiaKausar G. (013) 1 their study an attempt is made to investigate the scholarly communications in College & Research Libraries journal during the period of and to study the key dimensions of its publication trends. For the analysis of the study 15 volumes containing 90 issues have been taken up for evaluation. It is found that, contributions of articles to each volume of College & Research Libraries is nearly consistent and on an average 3 articles have been published every year. Single authored articles are found to be the highest followed by two and three authored articles. The average degree of collaboration in College & Research Libraries is The average author per article is 1.88 for 479 articles. Lotka s law is tested and confers to a value of n=3.. In all 1893 citations have been appended to 479 articles during the period Journals (59.95 per cent) are the top form of source used by authors followed by books (17.3 per cent), webpages (7.44 per cent) and reports (3.95 per cent). Ranked list of prolific authors and ranked list of journals is prepared and presented in respective tables. Deborah D Blecic and Stephen E Wiberley have topped the ranked list of prolific authors with 6 articles each. College & Research Libraries which is also the source journal of this study has topped the ranked list of journals with 1311 (16.96 per cent) citations. USA has topped the list of ranking of country productivity with 93.4 per cent contributions followed by Canada and China. M. Surulinathi, R. Balasubramani and Kalisdha (013) Continent wise Analysis of Green Computing Research: A Scientometric Study. Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science their paper attempts to analyze the growth and development of Green Computing, as reflected in publication output covered by Web of Science online database during Among these 4 countries, Germany has produced 70 (16.4 %) articles and it occupies the first place of European continent. France and Italy have more than 00 articles produced in this field. Sivankutty, V.S. and Devaraja, G. (014) 3 their studies on the Scientometric analysis of Research Trends ( ). In this study, they observed that year wise distribution of articles, author wise contribution and authorship pattern. They however pointed out that the study may be vied as just starting points of scientometrics analysis of a journal. Vijayakumar.P. (014) 4 he did the scientometric analysis of the journal Neurology India (00-011). His study stressed that scientometric techniques have been used extensively for distribution of contributions, authorship pattern, and degree of collaboration. Page 87

3 SOURCE JOURNAL; The Indian Journal of Horticulture is the official publication of the Horticultural Society of India. Number of issues per year 4, month s of publication: March, June, September and December. It features original research in all branches of horticulture and other cognate sciences of sufficient relevance and primary interest to the horticulturists. The Horticulture Society of India was founded in January 194. The aims and objectives of the Society are: To cultivate and promote research, education and development of horticulture and allied branches of science. To recognize and support excellence achieved in scientific research and development in the field of horticulture by individual scientists, interdisciplinary teams, recognized institutions, learned societies and industry. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY; To determine the year-wise distribution of research publications To observe authorship pattern To identify the ranking of authorship pattern To identify the proportion of single and multi authored and the degree of collaboration. To find relative growth rate and doubling time for publications To find the country wise distribution of publications. To find the top collaborative institutions METHODOLOGY; The data for the study was taken from the Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. For this study the volume ( ) was taken into consideration. Data were collected with adequate detail such as title of article, name of the contributors, and their address and affiliations details for each article. The collected data were analyzed for making observations. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY; The Indian Journal of Horticulture mainly publishes in research articles those helps to the research scholars, students done their projects and updates their latest development in their respective subjects. This study is limited for the period of 5 years starting from the year 010 up to the year 014. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS; TABLE-1 Year - wise Distribution of Research Publications Total Year Volume Number No of Issues No of Articles Percentage Volumes 0 Issues Page 88

4 Figure.1 Year-wise distribution of publications TABLE 1 shows that distribution of year wise articles published in Indian Journal of Horticulture during the year Out of 714 articles 33(3.63%) of them published in (16.94 %) of them published in (16.80%) of them published in (16.80%) of them published in (16.80%) of them published in 014. It is evident from the table that the highest 33 (3.63%) articles published in the year of 010. TABLE-.Year wise Authorship Pattern and their percentage. Year Single Author Two Authors Three Authors More than Three authors Total Percentage Total Page 89

5 Figure. Year wise Authorship Pattern TABLE indicates the year wise authorship pattern in the source journal. It is observed that totally 33 authors contributed for paper publishingin the year 010.Totally 11authors contributed in the year of authors contributed in the year of authors contributed during the years It is observed from the table more authors 33 (3.63%) contributed in the year of 010. Rank TABLE -3 Ranking of authorship pattern Authorship Pattern Single Author No of Contributions Percentage of Contribution Cumulative Contribution % of Cumulative Contribution Two Authors Three Authors More than Three Authors Page 90

6 Figure.3 Ranking of Authorship pattern TABLE 3 Shows that ranking of the authorship pattern. It is observed from the table that more than three authored 341(47.75 %) papers occupied the 1st rank. Three authored paper 0(8.9%) comes in nd rank. Two authored paper 15 (1.8 %) occupied in 3 rd rank. Single author papers19 (.66%) occupy the 4th rank in this study. TABLE 4 Year wise Single author VS Multi author contribution and their percentage Total Year Single Author Multi Author Total (0.98) 6 (31.65) 33 (3.63) (0.84) 115 (16.10) 11 (16.94) 01 1 (0.14) 119 (16.66) 10 (16.80) (0.56) 116 (16.4) 10 (16.80) (0.14) 119 (16.66) 10 (16.80) 19 (.66) 695 (97.33) 714 (100) Page 91

7 Figure.4 Year wise Single author VS Multi author TABLE 4 Shows that Single author and multi author contribution in the source journal. It is found that.66 % of the papers are published by single author and % of the papers are published by multi author during the study period. DEGREE OF COLLABORATION; The degree of collaboration is defined as the ratio of the number of collaborative research papers to the total number of research papers in the discipline during a certain period of time. The formula suggested by Subramanyam is used in this study. C = N m N m+ N s C = Degree of Collaboration N m = Number of Multiple authors Ns = Number of single authors TABLE 5 Degree of collaboration Year Degree of Collaboration Page 9

8 TABLE 5 Shows that degree of collaboration in the source journal. Among the five years of the study period the highest degree of collaboration occurred during the year 011 and 013. RELATIVE GROWTH RATE; The relative Growth rate and Doubling Time model was developed by Mahapatra and applied to examined the relative Growth Rate of research publications. The relative Growth rate is increased in the number of publications or pages per unit of time and can be calculated from the following equations. R(1-) = W 1 - W T - T 1 Where, R (1-) is mean Relative Growth Rate over the specified period W 1 = Log W 1 : (Natural log of initial number of Publications / Pages) W = Log W : (Natural log of final number of Publications / Pages) T - T 1 = The Unit difference between the Initial time and Final time The relative Growth rate for both publications and pages can be calculated separately. Therefore, R (a) = Relative growth rate per unit of time (Year) R (p) = Relative growth rate per unit of pages, per unit of time (Year) DOUBLING TIME; From the calculation, it is found that there is a direct equivalence existing between the relative Growth rates and Doubling time. If the number of Publications / Pages of a subject doubles during the given period, then the difference between the logarithm of the numbers at the beginning and at the end of the period must be the logarithms of the number two. If one uses a natural logarithm, this difference has a value of The corresponding doubling time for publications and pages can be calculated by using the following formula: Doubling time (Dt) = R Therefore, Doubling time for publications Data Dt(a)= R(a) Doubling time for pages Dt(p) = R (p) Page 93

9 Table-6: Relative growth rate and doubling time for publications W1 W R(a) W-W1 Year R.O/P Cumulative O/P Mean R (a) (1-) Doubling time Dt(a) (3.63) 33 (3.63) (16.94) 354 (49.57) (16.80) 474 (66.38) (16.80) 594 (83.19) (16.80) 714 (100) Total 714 (100) Mean Dt(a) (1-).158 Figure.5 Relative growth rate and doubling time for publications A study of data in table.6 indicates that the relative Growth rate and Doubling time for publications of the source journal. It is clear that relative Growth rate of total research output is decreased gradually. The Growth rate is 0.41in 010 and which decreased up to 0.19 in 014. The mean relative Growth rate for the periods of 010 to 014 the relative growth rate of 0.4. This study period resulted that the mean doubling time for total output Page 94

10 TABLE 7 Country wise Distribution of Publications Name of the Country No of Contribution s (Percentage) Rank India 688 (96.35) 1 Iran 8 (1.1) China 6 (0.84) 3 Turkey 4 (0.56) 4 United States 3 (0.4) 5 South Africa (0.8) 6 Australia 1 (0.14) 7 Bangladesh 1 (0.14) 8 Canada 1 (0.14) 9 Egypt 1 (0.14) 10 Figure.6 Country wise Distribution of Publications Table 7.From the table 6 we can get country wise distribution of research articles published in the source journal during the period During the analysis it has been observed that most of the articles contributed fromindia. It is observed that highest number of contributors are belong to India with 688articles out of 714 total articles published and its percentage is 96.35% and it is followed by Iranwith the publication of 8 articles with the percentage of 1.1%. Other countries like China 6 (0.84%), Turkey4 (0.56%) and United States 3 (0.4 %) are contributed respectively. Page 95

11 TABLE 8 Top ten collaborating organizations Name of the Organizations Indian Agricultural Research Institute Punjab Agricultural University India G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Indian Council of Agricultural Research Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources India No of Contribution s (Percentage) Rank 159 (.6) 1 40 (5.60) 36 (5.04) 3 9 (4.06) 4 9 (4.06) 5 (3.08) 6 19 (.66) 7 Banaras Hindu University 15 (.10) 8 Central Institute for Arid Horticulture MaharanaPratap University of Agriculture & Technology 14 (1.96) 9 14 (1.96) 10 TABLE 8 shows that top ten collaborating organization in the in the source journal. Indian Agricultural Research Institute topped with 159 (.6%)publications; next Punjab Agricultural University Indiahas 40 (5.60 %)of publications; next G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technologyhas 36 (5.04 %)of publications; next Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestryhas 9 (4.06 %)of publications and Indian Council of Agricultural Researchwith 9 (4.06 %)publications respectively. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS; It is evident from the table that the highest 33 (3.63%) articles published in the year of (.66%) of single author, 15 (1.8%)of two author, 0 (8.9 %) of three author, 341 (47.75 %) of more than three author papers published during the study period. More than three authored paper341 (47.75%) occupies the 1st rank. Three authored paper 0 (8.9 %) comes in nd rank. It is found that.66 % of the papers are published by single author and % of the papers are published by multi author during the study period. The highest degree of collaboration occurred during the year 011 and Page 96

12 The Growth rate is 0.41in 010 and which decreased up to 0.19 in 014. The mean relative Growth rate for the periods of 010 to 014 the relative growth rate of 0.4. This study period resulted that the mean doubling time for total output.158. It is observed that highest number of contributors are belong to India with 688 articles out of 714 total articles published and its percentage is 96.35% and it is followed by Iran with the publication of 8 articles with the percentage of 1.1%. Other countries like China 6 (0.84%), Turkey 4 (0.56%) and United States 3 (0.4 %) are contributed. It is observed from the study Indian Agricultural Research Institute topped with 159 (.6%) publications; next Punjab Agricultural University India has 40 (5.60 %)of publications; next G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology has 36 (5.04 %)of publications; next Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmer University of Horticulture and Forestry has 9 (4.06 %)of publications and Indian Council of Agricultural Research with 9 (4.06 %)publications. Totally 714 articles published in Indian Journal of Horticulture during the year The Journal only publishes peer reviewed quality of pollution control research in the form of original research articles, review articles, short papers and short notes. Research letters are also published in the corresponding section after peer reviewed. REFERENCES: 1. Mamdapur, Ghouse Modin N.,Rajgoli, Iqbalahmad U. and Mamdapur, AasiaKausar G. (013) "Scientometric Analysis of Contributions to the Journal College and Research Libraries ( )" Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal ISSN:150). Paper M. Surulinathi, R. Balasubramani and Kalisdha (013) Continent wise Analysis of Green Computing Research: A Scientometric Study. Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science ISSN: Vol. (1). pp Sivanbkutty, V.S and Devarajan, G (014) Metrics of Trends submitted to TEQIP-II sponsored National conference on reaching the unreached held on 8-9 th August, 014 at CIT, Coimbatore. 4. Vijayakumar, P. (014) A Bibliometric analysis of the journal Neurology India (00-011) submitted to TEQUIP-II sponsored national conference on reaching and unreached held on 8-9 th August, 014 at CIT, Coimbatore. 5. M. Surulinathi (010). An Evaluative study of Wi-Fi Communication Research Publications: A Scientometric Study, SALIS Journal of Information Management Technology, Vol. 1(1), PP Mohamed Esmail S. ands.jayashree (015). A scientometric analysis of the journal Annals of library and information studies. Processings of the UGC-SAP National Seminar on Advancement of Science ThroughScientometrics. ISBN: Pp Garg, K.C., Kumar, S. and Lal K. (006) Scientometric profile of Indian agricultural research, Vol.68(1), pp Arunachalam, S., &Gunasekaran, S. (00). Tuberculosis research in India and China : From bibliometrics to research policy. Current Science, 8(8), Ravi, S.; & Kumar, M. (007). A scientometric analysis of tuberculosis research in India. International Journal of Information Science and Services, 1(1), Page 97