Abstract
This is a study of Scientometric analysis of a Journal of Social Work carried out from the year 2001 to 2010. A total number of 369 contributions published in 33 issues of 10 volumes from the year 2001-2010 have been consulted and selected for this study. Out of 369 contributions, 187 are articles and rests i.e. 182 are book reviews and others. The details like volume wise/issue wise and year-wise distribution of contributions, volume-wise authorship pattern of published articles, number of articles published institution-wise, geographical distribution of published articles, volume-wise average citations per articles, volume-wise average number of pages in each contribution has been studied in this paper. The recorded data has been analyzed, tabulated and then interpreted appropriately. Keywords: Scientometric analysis, Authorship pattern, Distribution of Contributions in the journal of Social work, Scientometric analysis of journal of social Work, Citation analysis.
Highlights
Scientometrics is one of the branches of Science used popularly in the measurement and analysis of science
Scientometrics, Bibliometric are used by and large simultaneously formulated by Nalimov and Mulchenko and Pritchard in 1969.According to Nalimov and Mulchenko
Scientometrics is the application of quantative methods that are dealing with the analysis of science known as an information process
Summary
Scientometrics is one of the branches of Science used popularly in the measurement and analysis of science. It is scientific discipline which expands its horizons in almost all scientific fields. It uses to measure scientific events and activities statistically in publications in the science stream that are indexed in the various databases. Pritchard defines the bibliometric one of the methods of statistical and mathematical applied to books and other media of communication. The similar term of this kind was coined by Dr S.R. Ranganathan in in the form of Librametry
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