Authorship Patterns and Collaborative Research in the ‘Journal of Knowledge and Communication Management’, 2011–2014.

Abstract

The study highlights the authorship pattern and research collaboration of the Journal of Knowledge and Communication Management (JKCM). The study is based on research articles appeared in the journal during the period from 2011 to 2014. It illustrates various important aspects like – growth of contributions by year and volume, authorship patterns, author productivity, single- and multi-authored papers by year and degree of collaboration. The findings of the study revealed that almost half of the articles are single-authored, i.e. 22 (47.83%). The average productivity per author is 0.60 and average number of authors per paper of all the articles is 1.67. The average degree of author collaboration (C) in the source journal is 0.52 which clearly indicates that the growing tendency of collaborative research in the field of library and information science (LIS).