Abstract:
The paper explores the research productivity of the Journal Vikalpa for the period of
2003-2012, which is indexed in the EBSCO on-line database. Various quality aspects of
the 437 research articles published in the period were studied. The study elaborates on
various aspects of the journal such as year wise distribution of the articles, growth rate of
articles, authorship pattern, and degree of the authorship collaboration, distribution of the
contribution by institutions, country wise, length of the articles and geographical
distribution of authors. The analysis of the data revealed that average growth rate of
literature was 1.07 and moderate degree (.4234) of collaboration was observed. Further,
research showed that average number of authors per paper was 1.7 and Single authored
research articles constitute maximum to the total research output (57.87%). On an
average 43 articles were published in each year during the study period. The maximum
number of articles have been contributed by academic institutions. Further it is found that
the Relative Growth Rate (RGR) of articles was found to be gradually increasing from
0.6931 in the year 2003 to 2.4964 in the year 2012 and correspondingly the values of
doubling time of the articles was found to be decreasing from .9998 in the year 2004 to
0.2776 in the year 2012. The Study also reveals that India has the largest contributor of
literature for Vikalpa Journal. Finally, the research productivity of authors of Vikalpa
Journal does not obey the Lotka’s law of scientific productivity.
Machine summary:
The study elaborates on various aspects of the journal such as year wise distribution of the articles, growth rate of articles, authorship pattern, and degree of the authorship collaboration, distribution of the contribution by institutions, country wise, length of the articles and geographical distribution of authors.
The present study focuses attention on the scientometric analysis of the pattern of publication, authorship productivity, Relative growth rate, doubling time and collaborative research in the field of management.
Pradhan, Panda and Chandrakar (201 l) studied the trends in the authorship pattern and author's collaborative research in Indian chemistry literature with a sample of 53977 articles during the period 2000-2009.
The specific objectives of the study are as follows: • To study the number of papers published and growth rate of the literature and thier characteristics over the study period (2003-2012), • To know the authorship pattern and the degree of author collaboration, • To find out Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and doubling time of the article over the study period, • To examine Loktas Law in the field of Management, • To find out most prolific authors and most prolific institutions wise distribution of research articles, • To examine the average length of articles, • To study the distribution of publications by institution and country wise, and finally • To study the type of Publications wise distribution of articles.
To meet the objectives of the present study, necessary data was collected on the basis of following bibliometrics components such as article contribution by year, number of authors, authorship pattern, degree of authorship collaboration, institution wise and country wise.