Abstract
Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is the premier and oldest medical journal in Sri Lanka. Bibliometric studies on single journals are useful to find out the research trend in a discipline and publication trend of the journal. The objective of the study was to conduct a bibliometric study of CMJ. The study sought to identify co-authorship pattern, geographical distribution of authors, productive institutions, prolific authors, productive articles and the impact of the research work published in CMJ during the study period. The required data of all the selected articles published from 2003 to 2012, related to the analysis were collected from Scopus database. The collected data were analyzed in terms of bibliometric parameters by MS excel 2007 and Bibexcel. The study revealed multi authored articles occupy prominent position indicating cooperative research work. Three author contributions was the highest ranked authorship pattern. Majority (90%) of the authors publishing articles in CMJ were from Sri Lanka. The most prolific author contributed 18 articles during the study period. The most productive article received 57 citations recorded in SCOPUS data-base. University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya were leading institutions in publishing articles in CMJ during the study period. The study highlighted some research trends in health sciences and publishing trends of CMJ. The country distribution of authors showed that the journal reflects the research and views of health researchers mainly from Sri Lanka. The study provides suggestions to improve the impact of the research articles published in CMJ.
Highlights
Bibliometrics is the organization, classification and quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and micro communication along with their authorships by mathematical and statistical calculus (Sengupta, 1990)
Degree of collaboration progressively increased over the study span. It shows that multi-authored research papers lead the prominent position indicating the cooperative research work
The study highlighted some of the facts of publishing trend of research activities in Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ)
Summary
Bibliometrics is the organization, classification and quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and micro communication along with their authorships by mathematical and statistical calculus (Sengupta, 1990). According to Wan et al (2009) it can indicate the quality, maturity and productivity of the journal in any field, in a country. Bibliometric studies are performed by researchers to measure the impact of the published work on the scientific community. It has many applications in the field of library science in identifying the research trends in the subject, publication trend of a particular journal and evaluating a journal in order to provide further suggestion to improve the journal. Bibliometric studies are useful for ascertaining indicators of scientific productivity trends and emphasis among researchers in different subject fields (Okafor, 2008)
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