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Literary warrants on 'Digital Citizenship' published since its inception are still countable. The search executed to identify the bibliometric literature on 'Digital Citizenship' retrieved a meager outcome. Therefore, the study was pivoted with the data retrieved from the SCOPUS database. By utilizing normalized data and citation analysis to evaluate the influence across the various groupings, it is possible to see an almost linear rise in 2021 on the topic. Statistical and visual modeling software tools (R-Biblioshiny, Bibliometrix) were used in the study. It examines what this means for how bibliometric methodologies are used and disseminated in various situations. The study by the authors addressed bibliometric analysis and categorization of articles as per Ribble and Choi. Moreover, the paper discussed three field Plots (Sources-Keywords-Authors) and the most relevant authors. Furthermore, the study tried to testify to the fitness of Bradford's Law, trending topics on the subject, co-occurrence network by keywords, topic growth over the year, and a thematic map of topics from 1999 to 2022. The results were quite impressive. out of a total of 377 articles on digital citizenship, a scattering of subjects with numerous overlapped concepts like digital literacy, digital competence, higher education, technology, digital divide, cyber-bullying, information literacy, digital citizenship education, privacy, secondary education, adolescents, digital education, empowerment, primary education, university students have been identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study has been conducted 330 journal articles contributions with a total of 9527 citations contributed by 763 authors published in volume 78, no. 309 to volume 87, no. 348 of the source Journal, Economica between 2011 to 2020. An analysis of the different forms of literature, subject-wise distribution, ranking of top 24 cited journals, and the application of Bradford's law in Economics literature has been made. Results indicate that major forms of literature are journal 6173 (64.795%), followed by Books 2097 (22.011%) and Working Papers 569 (5.972%). Economica has published an average of 33 articles per volume. The average number of citations appeared at 238.175 citations in each issue. 'American Economic Review', published from the USA, tops the list with a tally of 481 (7.792%) citations, 'Journal of Political Economy' with 399 (6.464%) citations, published from USA and followed by 'Economic Journal' with 335 (5.427%) citations from the UK as the third position. Economics literature is not fit well Bradford's Law. Leimkuhler model is also applied to verify Bradford's law of scattering in the field of Economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bradford's Law states that for a given subject area the scattering of literature can be divided into three zones. The first zone (Zone 1)also called as core zone consists of very few number of sources (journals) with highest number of citations, the second zone (Zone 2) consists of moderate number of sources (journals) with a few number of citations and the third zone (Zone 3) consists of highest number of sources (journals) with seldom citations. The present study tests the applicability of Bradford's Law using 606 articles that were collected from the Scopus database for the period from 1988 to 29.02.2020. The 606 articles comprises of 7630 citations scattered in 226 journals. The journal distribution pattern does not comply with the Bradford's law. However, when Leimkuhler's Model was employed the dataset follow the Leimkuhler's model A rank list of core journals is prepared and the "Journal of Applied Polymer Science" ranked the top journal with 923 (12.10%) of total citations followed by Polymer Composites (10.20%), Polymer - Plastics Engineering & Technology and Engineering (6.79%) and Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites (5.45%). The distribution of the journals in three zones was done and the number of citations in each zone is calculated. The citation pattern of publication of Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) has been analysed. The half life of Plastics Engineering & Technology journals is calculated and found to be 8.38 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to explore the citation patterns of information management graduates' MPhil and Ph.D. theses submitted at the University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan. It examined their core cited information sources in terms of gender, class, year-wise distribution of citations, the average number of citations, and authorship patterns in their citations. It identified the list of core cited information sources with several citations used by research graduates. Citation analysis technique was used to determine the core cited information sources in 71 theses (60 MPhil and 11 Ph.D.) submitted to the Institute of Information Management (IIM), University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore, during the period of one decade 2008-2017. All 7013 identified references were examined and categorized in journals, books and books chapters, web-pages, theses, conference proceedings, reports, and newspapers. Findings showed that both male and female MPhil/Ph.D. graduates frequently consulted and cited periodical literature i.e. journals (58.71%) followed by books and book chapters (20.72%). On an average MPhil graduates cited 80.85 sources and Ph.D. graduates cited 196.55 sources in writing up their theses. The authorship pattern of the citations showed the highest number of citations from single-authored work. Data revealed that information behavior was the favorite area among research graduates. Bradford's law of dispersion was applied to determine the list of most-cited journals and books. This study would be helpful for information professionals to understand the information needs of their patrons and to make informed decisions for building demand-driven collections. The findings of the study may apply to other LIS schools in the developing world with similar contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the Indian Scientists contributions of research papers related to the topic in Data Mining was undertaken from Web of Science Databases has been used to retrieve the data for 22 years (1999-2020) by the searching the keyword "Data Mining". The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 88.59% of articles were published in journals. More numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 1096 literature published, 95.53 % of the publication published under the joint author. It is observed that author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka's law, but productivity distribution data partially fits the law when the value of Chi-square to 25212.62. Further this study also identified to analyses source wise. Degree of collaboration, Areas of research concentration, word frequency, Geographical distribution of the literature and citation analysis is also noted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study has examined the research output of the keyword analysis of 'Dengue disease' during the period 2005 - 2014. Bibliometric indicators were existing journal articles, cited reference, authorship pattern, document wise distribution, journal self - citation and author self-citation, keyword analysis in the dengue disease. The keyword analysis of Dengue Disease for ten-years, during the year 2005 to 2014 taken for the study 3517 words were retrieved in the current study. The highest publication is 691 in 2014 rank is first, the second rank is 2012 in 518 records, third rank is 2011 in 414 records and lowest record is 131 in 2005. The out of 3517 articles single author contributed only 216 (6.14%) articles while the rest 3301 (93.86%) articles were contributed by Multi authors. The majority of authorship patterns are multi-author collaborations which is the highest contribution during the ten years. The degree of collaboration ranges from 0.90 to 0.97 and the average degree of collaboration is 0.94. Researchers identified the total number of Countries i.e. 130 during the period between 2005-2014. But, we observed the majority of the Country "USA" in 1219 records with TLCS-6211 and TGCS in 27146. Researchers identified the total number of keywords i.e. 5493 during the period between 2005-2014. But selected top 20 keywords for the research purpose. We observed the majority of the keywords "Dengue" in 2038 records with TLCS 10794 and TGCS in 33761. Moreover the present study mirrors the actual published results of the work of Dengue Disease in global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the distribution of cited references in three commerce journals pertaining to the years 2012 to 2014. The study reveals that maximum number of cited references was found in Journal of World Business, followed by The International Journal of Accounting and Journal of Commerce and Management Thought. Most of the cited references were authored by more than one author. M. W.Peng's articles were most cited and maximum journals were from the fields of business and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents scientometric analysis of superconductivity research output in India from 1981 to 2014 and compares it with Global output as reported in Web of Science. The study shows that superconductivity research in India had a steep growth between 1981 and 1988, particularly an abrupt hike in 1987 is noticeable (both Indian and Global) followed by a more or less steady pattern thereafter up to 2014. The Indian growth pattern however differs from Global pattern. A sudden climb was noticed in 1987, which touched the crest in 1991. It started to descend thereafter steadily and troughed in 2003 followed by another steady rise again up to 2014. Indian trend thus shows a dip between 1992 and 2014 unlike Global pattern which was nearly steady over the span. The author productivity pattern only approximately corresponds to Lotka's law. The number of core journals in the subject area is comparatively less as obtainable by employing Bradford's law of scattering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is citation analysis of Business Research. It covers 18 issues of 9 volumes of Business Research published bi-annually during the period 2008-2016. The analysis covers the study of citation pattern and chronological growth citations. It also covers authorship pattern of the articles and various information sources of cited material. On the basis of citation analysis, a rank list of journals is prepared and core journals in the field of Business research are identified. Similarly, core areas of research are identified. The study reveals that researchers have cited journals (77.33%) more than books, editorial works and all other sources of information. Growth in collaborative trend of writing papers is also noticed as citations contributed by two authors is (37.67%) and single authors is (33.42%) followed by three authors (21.59%). Half-life of journal's citations is found to be fourteen years. Bradford's law doesn't found fit in the study. Academy of Management Journal (157 citations), Strategic Management Journal (141 citations) and The Journal of Finance (136 citations) are the most cited journals. Supply chain management and advertising are the two main areas of research among researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the 4821 cited documents appended to the 295 articles published in DJLIT during 2011-15. The citation analysis is based on various strictures such as studying distribution of citations, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, distribution of reference sources, prominent authors and ranked list of core journals. The study revealed that there is dominance of single authorship with 1912 (39.65%) citations followed by two authors with 1152 (23.89%) citations, three authors with 456 (9.45%) citations and more than three authors with 386 (8%) citations. There has been the availability of a good degree of institutional publications as well. Year-wise authorship pattern is also specified so as to see the dominance of particular authorship pattern for the period considered under the study. The degree of authors' collaboration for the present study is 0.51 and modified collaborative coefficient is 0.3661. Dr B.M. Gupta with 52 citations is the most prolific author. Dr K.C. Garg and Dr B.S. Kademani are at the second and third position respectively. The study further exposed the journal to be the mostly cited information source 2560 (53.10%) followed by websites (22.69%) and books (10.81%). Conference papers, reports, theses, workshop papers and seminar papers equally seem to be preferred domain with regard to using pertinent information source. Ranked list of journals denotes Scientometrics to be the most used journal (6.60%) by the authors contributing in DJLIT. The source journal is at the second position in the ranked list with 5.43%. A glance at the ranked core list of journals suggests that maximum journals are from foreign countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper investigates Bradford's Law of scattering for the 'Microbiology' literature in India for the period 2002-2016 as accessible in the Web of Science Core Collection database. A total of 25,744 articles related to Microbiology literature published in journals during the study period is retrieved. The data has been examined with respect to year-wise publication productivity, Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (DT) of literature. The time series analysis is also used to predict the future growth of literature. The 25,744 articles are scattered in 328 journals. A top ranked journals list was prepared and it unveiled that the Bio-resource Technology Journal has emerged as the most preferred journal with 1,610 (6.25%) articles followed by Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology with 1,019 (3.95%) articles and World journal of Microbiology Biotechnology with 746 (2.89%) articles. Theoretical aspects of Bradford's Law of Scattering are verified and manifested that the data does not fit to the present sample. The Leimkuhler model is applied and it proved to the data set for the Bradford Multiplier (k) at 14.17. The Bradford law is also verified through graphical formulation by drawing the graph and is found to approve all the three characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is based on the articles published in the open access journal, Advances in Anthropology during the year 2013-2014 covering 59 articles in 8 issues having 1750 citations. Data has been collected from Advances in Anthropology from the Directory of Open Access Journals. Data has been analyzed by using excel sheet by year, types of document, trend of research, author productivity, journal productivity etc. The citation study has been carried out to find out the various sources of literature used by the researchers in the field of Anthropology. A rank list of journals is also prepared to find out the core journals based on the citation frequencies. Applicability of Bradford's Law of scattering is tested here to identify the core journals in the field of anthropology. Lotka's Law of Author Productivity is also tested to find out the most active authors in anthropology. Authorship Pattern has been studied to know whether collaborative or individual research is mostly done in the field of Anthropology. In this way trend of research, growth of research, type of documents, etc are analyzed. It has been observed that the articles published in the year 2007 have been cited maximum number of times i.e. 140 times and the journal Nature is the most popular journal for the anthropologists. Bradford's Law of Journal Productivity is applicable but Lotka's Law of Author's Productivity does not follow here. From the study it has also been identified that individual research is more prominent than collaborative research and Physical Anthropology is the most promising field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumen Se analiza la literatura producida sobre la ley de Bradford desde 1934 hasta junio del 2012. Se encontraron 936 documentos producidos por 1 123 autores diferentes. Estos autores utilizaron 16 idiomas para comunicar los resultados de sus investigaciones; el inglés fue el idioma dominante, seguido del chino, español y portugués. Se identificó también a 15 autores como los más productivos, quienes publican sus investigaciones en inglés, en la forma de artículos en revistas académicas, y las presentan en congresos del área. Esta literatura crece de forma exponencial (R 2 = 0.974), a una tasa de 5.4 % al año y duplica su tamaño cada 13.2 años. This paper analyzes the literature produced on Bradford’ Law from 1934 to June 2012. The study compiled 936 documents produced by 1,123 authors, working in sixteen languages to communicate the results of their research, with English the leading language, followed by Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese. The study reveals the fifteen most productive authors, all of which work in English in both academic journals and conference settings. This literature is growing exponentially (R 2 = 0.974), at a rate of 5.4% per year and doubling in size every 13.2 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to examine the time lag between the receipt of paper and its subsequent publication in the journal, the structure of the IPR literature, type of documents cited by the papers and identification of core journals in the field of IPR using Bradford's law. The study also identifies the place of origin of the cited journals and the disciplines with which these dealt. The analysis indicates that the average time lag between receipt and its consequent publication is about 4 months. Highest number of papers is published in the sub-discipline of intellectual property rights and its related aspects. Nearly 40 journals constitute the core of the cited journals. Most of the cited journals are published from USA, UK and India. It is observed that most of the cited journals belong to the disciplines of law, economics and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyse articles in SRELS journal of information management published during the years 2004-2013 and to study the key dimensions of its publication trends. For this study 10 volumes containing 48 issues have been taken up for evaluation. Necessary bibliometric measures are applied to analyse different publication parameters. In all 499 articles are published with an average 49 articles each year. The collaborative measures are calculated as per Ajiferuke et al (0.35), Lawani (2.28) and Subramanyam (0.65). The average author per article is 1.83 for 499 articles. Lotka's law is tested and conforms to a value of n=2.27. There are 6224 citations found appended to 499 articles during the period 2004-2013. Journals (44.49%) are the top form of source used by authors followed by books (22.51%) and web pages (15.60%). Ranked list of prolific authors and ranked list of journals is prepared and presented in respective tables. Khaiser Nikam and MP Satija have topped the ranked list of prolific authors with 11 articles each. SRELS Journal of Information Management topped the ranked list of journals with 197 (7.11%) citations. Among different countries contributing to this journal, authors from India (94.75%) have made maximum contributions. Authors from Karnataka (43.59%) have contributed majority of articles among Indian States. Bradford's Law of Scattering is verified through Leimkuhler model and found fitting the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bradford's law is about scattering of literature in different information sources on a narrow subject. The present study serves as a test of the two formulations of Bradford's law, verbal and graphical, using 137120 articles published on Human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the journals index in Science Citation Index-Expanded during 1987-2011. The data is divided into five five-year spans so that comparisons can be made between the percentage errors for each five-year period. List of the core journals is also prepared for all the five blocks of five-year period. Number of journals and their titles in the core group indicates continuous change in focus in HCI research from one five-year block to the next. In addition, the applicability of Leimkuhler model was also tested with the present data. Neither the verbal nor the graphical formulation provides results that are consistent with the practical situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sambalpur Univesity (SU) was started functioning from 1st January, 1967 in the Odisha State. The university imparting study and research through 27 post-graduate departments in disciplines of Science, Humanities, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Law and Commerce. The present study aims to study the research performance of SU's publications that have been indexed in Scopus during 2008 to 2012. The study also identifies the annual growth of university publication, authorship pattern, author productivity, degree of collaboration, length of paper published, most prolific contributor, prolific institution/organization, geographical distribution etc. Lotka's law of scientific productivity was used to determine the author's productivity and Bradford's is law used to determine scattering of literature in the publication pattern of the university during the period under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present spacecraft propulsion is a dynamic area of research in which majority of research work is being done. Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge is a premier research platform, helping to find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The data for the present analysis has been retrieved for a period of 14 years during 1999 to 2012 from this database. This study aims to analyse the Indian contribution in the subject area. The study also analyses year-wise, language-wise, document type-wise distribution and also the country-wise analysis which provides the percentage of Indian share to this subject. The analysis also includes institution-wise categorization; Degree of Collaboration and also verifies the fitness of Bradford's Law of Scattering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search for scientific literature in scientific information systems is a discipline at the intersection between information retrieval and digital libraries. Recent user studies show two typical weaknesses of the classical IR model: ranking of retrieved and maybe relevant documents and the language problem during the query formulation phase. At the same time traditional retrieval systems that rely primarily on textual document and query features are stagnating for years, as it could be observed in IR evaluation campaigns such as TREC or CLEF. Therefore alternative approaches to surpass these two problem fields are needed. Recent developments in the area of applied informetrics show very promising effects by using long-known informetric and bibliometric methods like the analysis of power-law distributions described by Lotka's, Zipf's or Bradford's laws. This contribution will concentrate on the description of the different approaches in digital libraries, information retrieval, and informetrics to give a broad overview on current methods in applied informetries. This article contains: 1. Introduction 2. Digital Libraries 3. User Estimation of Relevance and Computer-Generated Ranking 4. Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems 5. Informetries 6. Discussion [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The foundation of every research project is a comprehensive literature review. The search for scientific literature in information systems is a discipline at the intersection of information retrieval and digital libraries; recent user studies in both fields show two typical weaknesses of the classical IR approach: ranking of retrieved and maybe relevant documents and the language problem during the query formulation phase. At the same time the performance of traditional retrieval systems that rely primarily on textual document and query features have been stagnating for years, as could be observed in IR evaluation campaigns such as TREC or CLEF. Therefore alternative approaches to surpass these two problem fields are needed. Recent developments in the area of applied informetrics show very promising effects by using long-known informetric and bibliometric methods like the analysis of power-law distributions described by Lotka's, Zipf's or Bradford's laws, or the application of co-occurrences analysis for entities like authors, journals or references of scientific literature. This work will concentrate on the description of the open problems and the current approaches to surpass these by using applied informetrics methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose- The present study is a bibliometric analysis of research papers of Utkal University published in various research journals of repute which were indexed in Scopus (officially known as Sciverse Scopus) during 2008 to 2012. It also identifies the annual growth of university publication, authorship pattern, author productivity, degree of collaboration, length of paper published, most prolific contributor, prolific institution/ organization, geographical distribution etc. Design/ methodology/ approach- For information retrieval “Utkal University” and “India” were the keywords used as affiliation and “2008” to “2012” selected as the time span of the study, further, the result was refined only to “articles”. Finally, 447 research papers in different disciplines of science and technology retrieved and matched with Utkal University as “author’s affiliation”. The papers were analyzed according to their year-wise publication, authorship pattern, length of paper published, geographical distribution of papers etc., statistical techniques such as Lotka’s Inverse Square Law was used to identify author’s productivity and Bradford’s law used to determine scattering of literature in the publication pattern of the university during the period under study. Findings- International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Prof. P. K. Panda and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics were the most favoured journal, contributor and research area respectively during the period under study. The study also revealed that, out of 1702 contributor only 680 were affiliated to Utkal University with 1.53 average authors per paper and 0.66 productivity per author. Research limitations/ implication- The present study has limitation by geographical area i.e. it covers only Utkal University and by time i.e. it covers only the research papers which were indexed during 2008 to 2012. Originality/ value- The paper is the result of an original bibliometric analysis of the research papers of Utkal University which were indexed in Sciverse Scopus during 2008 to 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a scientometric study of 834 articles on Carbon nanotube research in India spanning over the years 1999 to 2012 downloaded from Web of Science. The study analyses literature growth trends, which shows an initiation of potential growth of research in this subject since 2008. It also examines collaborations with different countries. The authorship pattern, document types involved and active Indian institutions co-coordinating research in this subject have also been studied. Bradford law of scattering was applied to identify the core journals and Lotka's law to study the authors' productivity pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»Information Retrieval and Informetrics: The Application of Informetric Methods in Digital Libraries«. The search for scientific literature in scientific information systems is a discipline at the intersection between information retrieval and digital libraries. Recent user studies show two typical weaknesses of the classical IR model: ranking of retrieved and maybe relevant documents and the language problem during the query formulation phase. At the same time traditional retrieval systems that rely primarily on textual document and query features are stagnating for years, as it could be observed in IR evaluation campaigns such as TREC or CLEF. Therefore alternative approaches to surpass these two problem fields are needed. Recent developments in the area of applied informetrics show very promising effects by using long-known informetric and bibliometric methods like the analysis of power-law distributions described by Lotka's, Zipf's or Bradford's laws. This contribution will concentrate on the description of the different approaches in digital libraries, information retrieval, and informetrics to give a broad overview on current methods in applied informetrics. This article contains: 1. Introduction 2. Digital Libraries 3. User Estimation of Relevance and Computer-Generated Ranking 4. Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems 5. Informetrics 6. Discussion [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»Zur Anwendung von Informetrie für Digitale Bibliotheken. Ein Überblick über Grundlagen, Probleme und aktuelle Zugänge«. The foundation of every research project is a comprehensive literature review. The search for scientific literature in information systems is a discipline at the intersection of information retrieval and digital libraries; recent user studies in both fields show two typical weaknesses of the classical IR approach: ranking of retrieved and maybe relevant documents and the language problem during the query formulation phase. At the same time the performance of traditional retrieval systems that rely primarily on textual document and query features have been stagnating for years, as could be observed in IR evaluation campaigns such as TREC or CLEF. Therefore alternative approaches to surpass these two problem fields are needed. Recent developments in the area of applied informetrics show very promising effects by using long-known informetric and bibliometric methods like the analysis of power-law distributions described by Lotka's, Zipf's or Bradford's laws, or the application of co-occurrences analysis for entities like authors, journals or references of scientific literature. This work will concentrate on the description of the open problems and the current approaches to surpass these by using applied informetrics methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eighty doctoral dissertations submitted to the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) and Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBK.V), West Bengal from 1991-2010 by the research scholars of horticulture are taken as the source materials. A total number of 10845 references were appended to the eighty dissertations, of which, 8437 were journal articles. A study on twenty-year data of journals cited by the horticulture scientists was carried out to examine the applicability of Bradford's law of scattering. Applicability of Bradford's law was tested. The journal distribution pattern of the horticulture doctoral dissertations does not fit the Bradford's distribution pattern. The distribution of the journals in three zones was made and the number of references in each zone was then estimated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research was to perform a bibliometric analysis of research journals containing scientific articles on the sport of rugby from 1922 to 2009. In this field 2057 articles were selected from major databases. The journals, authors and contents published were selected by taking into account the year of publication, thematic areas and modalities of rugby among other variables. A steady increase in production was found in the period considered, with a maximum of 174 articles published in 2007. The articles were written by an average of 2.5 authors and most of them (80.9%) only participated in one. The data showed a utility loss of 7.5% of the total items each year. The thematic areas and most influential journals on rugby had been identified. Finally, limited support has been found for attempting to adjust the bibliometric data by applying the laws of Lotka and Price with respect to the authors, and Bradford's law regarding scientific journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is a bibliometric assessment of scientific research output of Sambalpur University during the 2007 to 2011. Which describes the growth, contribution and impact of research carried out by the faculty members, researchers or students of Sambalpur University. It also attempts to analyze the growth and development of research activity of the university as reflected in publications output covered by ISI Web of Science during the period under study. The study attempt to examines the content of papers published, including the annual average growth rate percent, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, distribution of citations, organizational affiliation of papers. Subramanyam's formula is used to calculate degree of collaboration (C), Bradford's law used to determine scattering of literature in the publication pattern of the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliographic details of 1076 research articles obtained from the annual reports of Central Tube Crops Research Institute (CTCRI ) were studied and it was found that the highest number of 169 papers was published in the year 2006 and the average number of publications per year was 97.82. Most of the contributions were multi authored (87.68%). The degree of collaboration of scientists of CTCRI was 0.87 and most of the articles published by the scientists were in the foreign journals (51.89%). Journal of Root Crop spublished by Indian Society of Root Crops tops the list with the highest number of articles 125 (39.30%). Applicability of Bradford's Law in the journal distribution pattern of the CTCRI scientists does not fit the Bradford's distribution pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bradford's law of scattering is based on the principle that every scientific field is related, however remotely, to everyother field. One hundred and forty one Ph.D. theses accepted in the field of psychology for the award of doctoral degreeswere analysed to identify the Bradford's zones and productivity of journals cited in the theses. The Productivity of citedjournals is measured after dividing the journals into four equal groups. The average rate of productivity of journals in thefirst group is 254 articles, whereas it has considerably gone down to 10.73 articles in the fourth group. The journaldistribution as per the Bradford's law reveals the ratio as 17:46:358 in psychology, dispersion of journal titles in psychologydoes not satisfy the Bradford's Law of Scattering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the different conceptions of 'Subject' in scattering of literature in scientific journals in relation to Bradford's Law. The study highlights the ambiguity found in the understanding of the 'subject' in Bradfordian scattering. It also looks at the controversy found in the law regarding its theoretical and mathematical explanations. The study suggests that different ways of operationalizing 'subjects' play an important role, therefore it should be given due consideration. In addition empirical variables such as size, areas of specialization etc should also be looked in before dividing the journal into Bradford zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study used both the Bradford's Law and the Lotka's Law in the traditional bibliometrics to explore the web users' behavior on Wiki Websites. In addition, by doing a case study for the "Taiwan Baseball Wiki", a digital archive website which was independently developed by Taiwan, this research discussed both the distribution of the web pages and the productivity of the editors on this Wiki Website. The research results show: (1) The distribution of the web-page editing frequency is highly consistent with the Bradord's Law and the Bradford- Zipf's Law. (2) Most editing work concentrates on a few web pages. For example, the first 2% of the core pages received 25% editing regarding the number of times; nearly half of the editing boiled down to 8.8% web pages, etc. (3) For the web-page productivity, the first half segment of the Lotka distribution, which covered about 90% of the editors, is closed to a straight line. It shows the number of edited web pages versus the percentage of editors have about 1.5th power inverse proportionality. (4) For the editing frequency productivity, the first half segment of the Lotka distribution, which covered about 90% of the editors, is also closed to a straight line. It shows the frequency of editing versus the percentage of editors have about 1.3th power inverse proportionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an insight into the citation analysis of research publications of the National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) during the period 1972-2007. It analysed 2830 most valuable citations spread over 561 publications made by the NML scientists and researchers indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) retrieved through the Web of Science. It determines the research and citation impact using parameters such as extent of citation received in terms of number of citation per paper, year wise break up of citation, domain wise citation, self citations and citation by others, diachronous self citation rate, citing authors, citing institutions, highly cited papers and categories of citing documents, citing journals and impact factor. A Bradford plot constructed to determine the core-citing journals shows that the curve is a typical S shape which indicates subject maturity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study presents a detailed analysis of research performance of biotechnology faculties in central universities of India from 1997-2006. The data used for the study were retrieved from two database sources, namely, PubMed, NCBI (National Centre for Biotechnology Information); and ISI Web of Science database--Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). Bibliometric techniques have been employed to analyse the data. The results indicate that the growth of literature in biotechnology has steadily increased from 15 articles in 1997 to 43 articles in 2006; two-authored publications predominate amongst the pattern of authorship; applicability of Lotka's law is validated from the values n = 2.12, C = 0,669, and D = 0.027 obtained using least square method. However, the application of Bradford's law does not fit to the literature analysed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the significance of Bradford's law in today's information age. The classical law is applied to the toxicology literature collected from the international database, Toxicology Information Online, (TOXLlNE), and its validity on that data was tested. The data was found unfit for the law. Hence a new formula is derived and applied which was found fit for the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of the literature on information literacy, such as document type, publication country, language, literature growth and author productivity. The distribution of journal articles and core journals were examined by Bradford's law and Bradford-Zipf's law. The results of this study reveal that 1. periodical is the major document type; more than 66% literature were published by United States and Great Britain; English is the most frequently used language; 2. the literature growth rate is in a steadily up-growing trend since middle 90's; 3. the zone analysis and graphical formulation from Bradford's law and Bradford-Zipf's law are examined and both are applicable to journal productivity distribution; 4. the quality of the core journal is better than the others; 5. 15 core journals are identified by the Bradford's law and how long these journals has issued does not absolutely affect the journal productivity; 6. the core journals are research periodical primarily, most of them deal with academic libraries, school libraries, and reference services; 7. most of the authors published one document only, however, there are no absolute correlation between author productivity and their active years; 8. the most productive authors are primarily female and university faculty and their major research fields are information literacy, bibliographic instruction and information technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is currently dominating in the medical field as a keyword that reflects modern medicine. Randomized controlled trials(RCTs) literature play an important role in developing EBM. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of the RCTs literature based upon the bibliometric techniques. The study includes topics on literature growth, publication types, languages, publication countries, and research subjects. The distribution of journal articles was examined using the Brad- ford's Law and Bradford - Zipf Law. The MEDIANE database was searched for articles indexed under" Randomized Controlled Trial" according to "publication type". From 1990 to 2001, a total of 103,792 RCT articles were retrieved. The results of this study reveal that, the literature growth rate is in a steadily up-growing trend, the growth follows an exponential model, and journal article is the major way of publication. English is the most frequently used language. The most frequent research subject is cardiovascular disease. Zone analysis and graphical formulation from Bradford's law of scattering was reexamined, and It was found to be inapplicable to journal productivity distribution. Forty-two core journals were identified by the Bradford's Law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of photocatalysis literature based on the theoretical perspectives of the bibliometrics, such as literature growth, document type and language, author affiliation productivity and journal productivity. The distribution of journal articles and core journals were examined by Bradford's law, Bradford-Zipf's law and the impact factor of ISI's Journal Citation Reports (JCR). A total of 7141 bibliographic records, from 1970 to 2003, were retrieved from Science Citation Index Expended (SCIE) database. The results of this study reveal that 1. the literature growth rate is in a steadily up-growing trend recently. Moreover, the overall growth is similar to exponential model; 2. research article is the major type of publication. Research and review papers account for 92.5% of total literature; 3. English is the most frequently used language and Japan is the most productive country; 4. zone analysis and graphical formulation from Bradford's law of scattering are reexamined and it is found to be inapplicable to journal productivity distribution; 5. the Bradford's law and Bradford-Zipf's law are applied and identified 13 and 15 core journals, respectively; 6. based upon the impact factor from JCR, the average impact factor for journals of the first zone and second zone is higher than journals of the other zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]