Bibliometric study of biochemistry literature in North Eastern Hill university during 2000 to 2010

Abstract

The study finds the research output of Biochemistry teachers in ‘North Eastern Hill University (NEHU)’ using bibliometric methods. It identifies the core journal in this field. The study sample comprises 11 faculty members from Biochemistry Department and the papers published by them during the period 2000 to 2010. The papers were collected from NEHU institutional repository, Developing Library Network (DELNET) via Document Delivery Service (DDS) and also from ‘Web of Science (WoS)’ database. A total of 434 journals containing 1574 references were collected, MS-Excel spreadsheet and MS-Word were used to analyze the data. There has been no study done on this aspect of faculty members from Biochemistry in NEHU. This is first of its kind study done in NEHU. The growth of literature on Biochemistry, the analysis of data showed that the nature of growth is not consistent as the number of publications varies in nature. To identification the core journals Bradford’s law was used and according to Bradford’s law of distribution the journals were computed. The study found it does not fit into Bradford’s distribution. Therefore, the following method based on the Leimkuhler model was employed for the verification of Bradford’s Law of Scattering.