Study of Lotka’s Law and Authorship Pattern in the Conference Proceedings of COLLNET: an International Conference Covering Exclusively Bibliometric Study

Abstract

This paper examines the authorship pattern of 419 papers contributed to COLLNET Conference proceedings during the period 2011-2015. The ranked authors list is prepared to identify the most prolific authors who contribute significantly to the areas of bibliometric study. Authorship Pattern is studied to understand collaboration behavior and it is found that maximum papers are written by multiple authors. The degree of collaboration is significantly high, which is 0.7852. Lotka’s law was tested using Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit test and it is found that Lotka’s law is not found fit in the observed distribution of COLLNET Conference Proceedings.