Scientometric Analysis On Infertility Literature: An Indian Perspective
Scientometric Analysis On Infertility Literature: An Indian Perspective
Scientometric Analysis On Infertility Literature: An Indian Perspective
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JOURNAL OF INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 2015, 51 (3) 24-30
ABSTRACT
This study reveals the research productivity in the field of infertility and the data was downloaded from
the Scopus database for the period of 1985 - 2014. The collected records have been analysed to identify
the distribution of records in terms of block-wise, author-wise, source wise and document wise and
collaboration pattern among authors during the study period of 30 years. The growth rate has also
decreased gradually and correspondingly doubling time has increased The paper reveals high degree of
collaboration with 96.03% contributions of joint authorship. The average collaboration coefficient is
0.62 and average collaboration index value is 3.6. High level of eo-authorship exists among the two and
three authorship pattern in infertility researchers in India. Most of the prolific authors have their
publications with the eo-authorship. Research findings are communicated through the journals to the
community. Authors have collaboration with different departments of same institute or different institutes
within country are higher than the international collaboration. From the study it understood that
collaboration with developed countries helps to improve the research performance of India.
support and the improvement in the existing medical Average Publication Per Block (APPB) as 353. It can
education system to enrich the research culture. be observed that there was a steady growth in
publications over the study period. Except during the
3. METHODOLOGY: block 1990 - 1994, the publications were almost
The infertility research publications were downloaded doubled in each block shows a healthy publishing
from the Scopus database which is the largest abstract trend.
and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. The Table 2. Relative Growth Rate and
publicationoutput on infertilityin India duringthe period Doubling time of the Publications
1985 - 2014 was taken for the study. A total of 1764 RGR.
Year No. of Cumulative Loge Loge Dt
publications of the Infertility literature output by Indian block-wise Papers NI N2
scientist. Bibliographic details of the documents were 1985-1989 57 57 - 4.04 0.809 0.86
exported to MS-Excel and analyzed based on the 1990-1994 68 125 4.04 4.22 0.035 19.64
scientometric indicators. 1995 -1999 110 235 4.22 4.70 0.096 7.21
2000-2004 239 474 4.70 5.48 0.155 4.47
4. OBJECTIVES: 2005-2009 405 879 5.48 6.00 0.105 6.57
• To identify the growth of literatureand publishing 2010-2014 885 1764 6.00 6.79 0.156 4.43
pattern during 1985-2014;
The table 2 illustrate the RGR and Dt. From the
• To analyze the collaboration pattern among
authors; study, it concluded that the Relative Growth Rate is
from 0.809 to 0.156 showing a decreasing trend but
• To find out the core joumals in this research field
doubling time is showing the increasing trend with the
and
values of 0.86 to 4.43. The publications on infertility
• To identify the most productive institutes and
research are increased with the doubling time indicator.
most productive authors in this area.
The table 3. Provides the collaboration pattern
among authors. To assess the pattern of eo-authorship,
5. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS
the following formula suggested by Garg and Padhi
Table 1. Block-wise scientific productivity
(1999)10. The country's eo-authorship effort for a
Year No. of % Cumulative % APPB particular type of authorship is considered as world
block-wise papers
average when CAI = 100. Additionally, CAI >100
1985-1989 57 3.23 57 3.23 11
implies that higher eo-authorship effort than the average
1990-1994 68 3.85 125 7.09 14
and CA! < 100 means lower eo-authorship effort than
1995-1999 110 6.24 235 13.3 22
the average. From the study, it found that 96.03% of
2000-2004 239 13.55 474 26.9 48
the publications were made with the effort of joint
2005-2009 405 22.96 879 49.8 81
authorship whereas single authorship publications were
2010-2014 885 50.17 1764 100 177
found very low. The average collaboration index during
Total 1764 100 353
the study was 3.6 and the average degree of
Research output on infertility in India during the collaboration was 0.89. The correlation coefficient and
modified correlation co-efficient is same.\
period 1985 - 2014 consists of 1764 records with an
2010 - 2014 70 135 174 506 885 3786 4.28 0.92 0.67 0.67
Table 4 shows that the eo-authorship index for During the study period, Out of 1764 publications
single, two and three authors are declined from the most of the publications (74.5%) were found as articles
block year 1985 - 1989 to 2010-2014. For more than followed by 15.6% review; 4.54% letter and other
three authors, eo-authorship index is increased from type of publications like conference papers, short survey,
57.9 to 111 during the study period. It means that high note, book chapters were below to 1.5% in table 5. It
level of eo-authorship exists among the two and three makes to understand that most preferred publishing
authorship pattern in infertility researchers in India. channel ofthe researchers were journal articles.
Dominance factor formula in bibliometrics has
Table 5. Document Type
been developed by Keerti and Kumar (2011)11.
Document type No. of papers %
Dominance is the proportion of number of multi-
Article 1315 74.5 authored papers as first author to number of multi-
Review 276 15.6 authored papers of the author. From the study, top 10
Letter 80 4.54 contributors were considered as most prolific authors
Editorial 22 1.25 with more than 20 publications in the infertilityresearch
Conference Paper 20 1.13 in India during the study period. Among them Dada,
I §oort g!ID.r~)' 20 1.13 Rima was the most prolific author with 49 publications
Not&: 10 0.57 as first author for 13 publications with dilll1ImUlt."'e fuuor
BrJOK Cb~rer 4 0.23 0.265 followed by Kumar, R with 38 papers as 17
Vn~fincd 17 0,96 first authored with dominance factor 0.472 over the
Tm..al l764 IC() study period.
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