Bibliometric Study of Zoology Literature in North Eastern Hill University During 2000 to 2010
Keywords:
Bibliometric, Journals, Authorship pattern, Author productivity, Core Journals, Bradford’s law.Abstract
The main purpose of the study is to analyse periodical Literature in North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) of Zoology faculties in using bibliometric studies and to identify the core journal in this field. For the purpose of this study faculty members from Zoology department have been chosen which comprise of sixteen faculty members and articles published by them in research journals during the period 2000 to 2010. The articles included in the present study were collected from questionnaire and also from ‘Web of Science (WoS)’ database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), via the Science Citation Index (SCI-EXPANDED).The search strategy used for collecting data for NEHU was as follows: “Author= Saha N; Address=Ne hill Univ; Document type=article; Time Span= 2000 to 2010” The same strategy was used to collect data for all other faculty members. A total of 211 journals containing 3411 references were collected, MS-Excel spreadsheet and MS-Word were used to analyse the final data collected in order to generate tables, charts, graphs, etc. There has been no study done on this aspect of faculty members in NEHU. There is no known data about the growth of literature published by these faculty members, and the core journals in the field of Zoology. Therefore, this is first of its kind study done in NEHU. From the growth of literature on the subject of Zoology NEHU The analysis of data showed that the nature of growth literature is not consistent as the number of publication varies in nature, however the highest number of publication was in the period 2009 to 2010, 29 (13.74 percent) periodical article were published. The study also reveals 31.75 per cent by two authors top the authorship pattern in ten years. In identification of core journals according to Bradford’s law of distribution the relationship between the zone is 1: n: n² (i.e. 1: 5: 25). But it was found that the relationship of each zone in the present study is 18: 96: 651. This does not fit into Bradford’s distribution which is 18: 96: 511. Therefore, the following method based on the Leimkuhler model was employed for the verification of Bradford’s Law of Scattering. After following Leimkuhler model the following relationship of each zone is 13.42 : 93.94 : 657.58 764.94 which perfectly fit into Bradford’s distribution.
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