Patterns of Authorship and Research Collaboration on Cardiovascular Disease in Science Citation Index Expanded

Chandran Velmurugan; P. Kulanthaivel

doi:10.18034/ajase.v9i1.28

Authors

Chandran Velmurugan Researcher, Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar University, INDIA
P. Kulanthaivel MPhil Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar University, INDIA

Keywords:

Scientometrics

Bibliometrics

Cardiovascular disease

SCIE

WoS

publication analysis

Abstract

This study has tried to identify the patterns of authorship and Research Collaboration through scholarly publications of Indian Scientists on Cardiovascular Disease. A total number of 2029 scientific publications with 25259 global citations indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) of Web of Science (WoS) database were retrieved for analysis from 2005 to 2014. The study observes the various dimensions of characteristics of authors and their research productivity, authorship pattern, most prolific authors, and many other features are discussed. The study includes ten years span between 2005 and 2014, both the years inclusive. The research output of faculties from India, which comes to 2029 publications, was taken as a base to measure these parameters. The results revealed that the major proportion of documents was found in 2014 followed by the year 2013. The analysis of Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time of Cardiovascular Disease during 2005-2014 output has shown an increasing trend, and doubling time for publications has shown a progressively decreasing trend. The journal article records the first rank, and it occupies more than 75 percent of the total output of Indian scientists on cardiovascular disease.

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