EXPLORING AUTHORSHIP PATTERN AND GROWTH OF SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS OF CSIR-CSMCRI, BHAVNAGAR DURING 2011 2020: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY

Abstract

The use and calculation of scientific indicators like number of papers, growth rate of publications, impact factor, h-index, g-index, m- index etc., are now increasingly becoming popular. Calculation of these indicators requires large datafrom bibliographic datasets, requires different methodologies like scientometrics and bibliometrics for analyzing such datasets. To exploring authorship pattern growth of scholarly research of CSIR- CSMCRI, Bhavnagar the present study has consulted 1741 bibliographic records of the institute published during the period 2011 to 2020 indexed in SCOPUS database. The results showed that the research publications and citations received of CSMCRI have increased during the periods. The study shows 91.67% of research documents are published as article in the journal. Software‘s like MS-Excel, R-package and VOS viewer are applied for analysis of datasets. The study has counted Mean RGR (P) ‗0.27‘; Mean Dt (P) ‗3.51‘ which shows the growth rate of publications. The average degree of collaboration for the periods is ‗1‘ and the total of 36534 citations were received for the periods with Mean RGR (C) ‗0.20 and Mean Dt (C) ‗9.25‘.