A Comparative Study of Citation Patterns among Eight Scholarly Journals Published by National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
| Main Authors: | Dutta, Bidyarthi, Das, Anup Kumar, Sen, B.K. |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
, 2002
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/22920/1/ALIS%2049%284%29%20127-134.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/22920/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The study covers 2800 citations appended to 152 articles published in 2001 in eight scholarly journals published by National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources. In all , 7426 authors are figuring in the citations. On average, there are 18 citations per article and 3 authors per citation. The high percentage multi-authored citations clearly indicates dominance of team research in the concerned fields. On average, journal articles account about 79 percent of the citations. Monographs rank second with a tally of about 12 per cent. Indian Journal of Marine Science receives high percentage of journal self-citation compare to others whereas Indian Journal of Chemistry Section B receives high percentage of author self-citation compared to others. Indian citation received by all journals figure only 10% on average.