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Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal Current Science (2005-2014) Parameswaran R Assistant Librarian, Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 220115, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA. Abstract: This paper deals with the analysis of the 7384 Contributions of the journal entitled “Current Science” published during 2005-2014. It examines year wise, distribution of contribution, authorship pattern, Citation analysis Channel of communication, geographical distributions etc. The data for the study Web of Science was used for collecting data. The result shows that there are total 7384 publications published in Current Science in the year 2005- 2014. The year 2005 has the highest number of 889(12.04%) publications, The average research outputs in Current Science are 738 articles per year The author Balaram P has contributed 149 (26.90) articles with 225 citations, 7 h index and occupied first rank. It is deduced from the study that authors are more interested in contributing articles than any other category. There is 3747 (50.74 %) publications fall under the category of articles. . It has been identified that the highest contributions is from India with 6319 (85.58%) publications Keywords: Content Analysis, Bibliometric Study, Scientometric Study, Current Science I. INTRODUCTION The term Bibliometric has been defined as organization, classification, and quantative evaluation of publication patterns of macro and micro communications along with their authorship by mathematical and statistical calculus6.

Current Science, published every fortnight by the Association, in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences, is the leading interdisciplinary science journal from India. It was started in 1932 by the then stalwarts of Indian science such as CV Raman, Birbal Sahni, Meghnad Saha, Martin Foster and S.S. Bhatnagar. In 2011, the journal completed one hundred volumes. The journal is intended as a medium for communication and discussion of important issues that concern science and scientific activities. Besides full length research articles and shorter research communications, the journal publishes review articles, scientific correspondence and commentaries, news and views, comments on recently published research papers, opinions on scientific activity, articles. Current Science is indexed by Web of Science, Current Contents, Geobase, Chemical Abstracts, IndMed and Scopus. The Impact Factor of the journal for the year 2014 is 0.926.

II. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The main objective of this study is to analyze the content of the Current Science ‘and make the quantitative assessment of the journal by way of analyzing the following features.

1.

To find out year-wise distribution of publications.

2.

To find out the Source wise distributions of publications by the authors for their contributions.

3.

To examine the most prolific authors in the field 4.

To analyze Geographical distribution of research output III. SCOPE & LIMITATION OF THE STUDY Scope of study is restricted to the ‘Current Science published during 2005 to 2014. The papers presented in the journal are analyzed using bibliometric technique. The present study is limited to ISI Web of Science which is more comprehensive and widely used citation database for conducting research. There are total numbers of 7384 papers published during the study period.

IV. METHODOLOGY The data for the study was taken from the Web of Science citation database published by Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). To hunt all records published in the Current Science Journal. The search strategy used for collecting data was as follows; Publication Name = Current Science; Time span 2005-2014.This means those records published in the Current Science during the study period only were retrieved. The total numbers of records

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were 7384. The data were downloaded in the Microsoft Excel format and analyzed according to objectives of the research.

V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION YEAR WISE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS Table 1 gives the year-wise distribution of literature in the Current Science. The number of distribution of literatures varies from year to year. The year 2005 has the highest number of 889 (12.04%) publications, whereas the year 2012 has lowest number of 646 (8.75%) publications. The year 2005 has the highest number of 7178 (26.74) citations for 82 articles, but the year 2014 has lowest number of 344 (1.28%) citations for 889 articles.

The average research output in International Journal of Educational Development is 738 articles per year.

Table -1: Year Wise Distribution of Publications Year

Records

Percentage

Citations

Percentage

h-index

1.

S.No.

2005

889

12.04

7178

26.74

36

2.

2006

728

9.86

5442

20.27

30

3.

2007

809

10.96

3986

14.85

26

4.

2008

784

10.62

2705

10.08

21

5.

2009

722

9.78

2362

8.80

19

6.

2010

728

9.86

1851

6.90

15

7.

2011

706

9.56

1398

5.21

12

8.

2012

646

8.75

914

3.41

11

9.

2013

701

9.49

662

2.47

8

10.

2014

Total

671

9.09

344

1.28

5

7384

100.00

26842

100.00

183

SOURCE WISE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS Table 2 presents the source wise distributions of publications of Current Science Journal. The sources of publications are categorized into eight types such as Articles, Letter, Reviews, Editorial, Meeting, Correction, Biography, and News. Out of these seven, there are 3747 (50.74 %) publications which fall under the category of articles, followed by Letter 1808 (24.49%), Editorials 1024 (13.87%) publications, News 320 (4.33) publications, Reviews 224 (3.03), Biographies 220 (2.98%). Rest of the documents is below (0.47%), It is deduced from the study that authors are more interested in contributing to articles than any other category.

Table -2: Source Wise Distributions of Publications S.No. 1.

Type of Documents Article

2.

letter

1808

3.

Editorial

1024

4.

News

320

5.

Reviews

224

6.

Biographies

220

7.

Correction

35

8.

Meeting

6

Total

Records 3747

7384

Percentage 50.74 24.49 13.87 4.33 3.03 2.98 0.47 0.08 100.00

Citations 19162 1431 1632 176 4413 25 3 61 26903

Percentage 71.23 5.32 6.07 0.65 16.40 0.09 0.01 0.23 100.00

References

h-index

16314

40

1216

10

1491

14

170

6

4356

35

23

2

3

1

61

4

23634

112

MOST PROLIFIC AUTHORS Table 4 shows the ranking and most prolific authors of Current Science. The rank list of top ten authors is taken into account to avoid long list. The author Balaram P has contributed 149 (26.90%) articles with 225 citations, 7 h index and occupied first rank. Second in the rank was Kumar A 77 (13.90%) article with 4.17 citations, 11 h index. Followed by Prathap Gangan 52 (9.39) articles with 132 citations, 5 h index occupies third rank. Singh R contributed 51 (9.21) articles with 250 citations, 8 h index holds the fourth rank. Rest of the authors contributed below 16 articles. Singh S contributed 45 (8.12) articles with 162 citations 7 h index occupied fifth place. It is interesting to know that Kumar A received highest 77 (13.90%) citations and 11 h index for 77 publications.

Ranking of authors is one of the criteria in bibliometric study, it helps in determining the authoritativeness and the qualitativeness of different works brought out by various subject experts. It stresses and influences the quality of selection of various source materials intended for target audience. Thus, it helps in acquisition and weeding out policy.

Table –4: Ranking of Top ten Authors

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S.No. 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Total

Authors

Records

Percentage

Citations

Percentage

Balaram P Kumar A Prathap Gangan Singh R SinghS Singh A K Malhotra R Kumar R Singh A Ray S K

149 77 52

26.90 13.90 9.39

225 398 132

11.76 20.79 6.90

51 45 43 40 33 32 32

9.21 8.12 7.76 7.22 5.96 5.78 5.78 100.00

250 162 199 18 272 116 142

13.06 8.46 10.40 0.94 14.21 6.06 7.42 100.00

Avg. Citations 1.51 5.17 2.54

Citing Article 211 372 113

h-index

4.90 3.60 4.63 0.42 8.24 3.62 4.44

227 162 181 18 270 113 85

8 7 7 3 8 7 6

7 11 5

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH Table 4 gives that there are 7066 publications during the study period. It has been observed that most of the articles are joined authors form different places. It has been identified that the highest contributions is from England with India (85.58%) publications, followed by USA with 316 (4.28%) contributions and occupies second position, England contributed 80 (1.08%) publications and occupied third position. Germany had 73 (0.99%) publications and occupies fourth position. Other countries contributed less than 64 publications and the percentage is less than 0.87%.

Table- 5: Geographical distribution of research S.No.

Country

Records

Percentage

Citations

Percentage

1.

India

6319

85.58

24187

2.

USA

316

4.28

1682

3.

England

80

1.08

405

4.

Germany

73

0.99

863

5.

China

64

0.87

6.

Australia

61

0.83

7.

Japan

49

8.

Taiwan

36

9.

Srilanka

10.

Franch

Total

Citing Article 20483

h-index

84.81

Average Citations 3.83

5.90

5.32

1584

10

1.42

5.06

396

10

3.03

11.82

857

11

267

0.94

4.17

263

10

271

0.95

4.44

261

8

0.66

279

0.98

5.69

272

8

0.49

87

0.31

2.42

82

5

36

0.49

164

0.58

4.56

157

6

32

0.43

314

1.10

9.81

314

12

7066

100.00

28519

100.00

24669

120

40

VI. CONCLUSION There are total 7384 publications published in Current Science in the year 2005- 2014. The year 2005 has the highest number of 889(12.04%) publications, whereas the year 2012 has lowest number of 646 (8.75%) publications. The year 2005 has the highest number of 7178 (26.74) citations for 82 articles, but the year 2014 has lowest number of 344 (1.28%) citations for 889 articles. The average research outputs in Current Science are 738 articles per year. The author Balaram P has contributed 149 (26.90) articles with 225 citations, 7 h index and occupied first rank. There is 3747 (50.74 %) publications fall under the category of articles. It is deduced from the study that authors are more interested in contributing articles than any other category. It has been identified that the highest contributions is from India with 6319 (85.58%) publications, followed by USA with 316 (4.28%) contributions and occupies second position, England contributed 80 (1.08%) publications and occupied third position. China had 64 (0.87%) publications and occupies fourth position. Other countries contributed less than 61 publications and the percentage is less than (0.66%). The trends towards collaborative research is gaining currency day-by-day. Every work of researchers depends purely on the library because it contains more sources information. The researchers have become an important entity wherein more and more researchers help to make it innovative.

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