Scientometric Evaluation of Sankhyá - the Indian Journal of Statistics

Das, Prabir Kumar and Pal, Jiban K. Scientometric Evaluation of Sankhyá - the Indian Journal of Statistics. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science (MJLIS), 2012, vol. 17, n. 2, pp. 83-100. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper analyses 199 peer-reviewed articles published in Sankhyā during 2003 to 2007. It examines authorship pattern, collaboration trend among authors, predominant areas of statistical research, and time lag in publications, prolific contributors, degree of collaboration, collaboration density, active sub-domains of statistics and time lag trend. Findings reveal that the number of articles reduced from 24.6% to 14.0% that conforms to the growth trend of statistical publications in India and the author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka’s law. The study also shown an average time lag of fifteen months to publish an article, and a declining trend of time lags following second-degree polynomial type has been observed in this scholarly journal.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Single journal studies; Scientometrics analysis; Statistics journal; Sankhyā-the Indian Journal of Statistics; Lotka’s law.
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user: Dr. Jiban K. Pal
Date deposited: 08 Feb 2021 17:39
Last modified: 08 Feb 2021 17:39
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/41714

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