Testing Lotka’s Law and Pattern of Author Productivity in the Maharashtra University of Health Services (MUHS) Consortium: A Bibliometric Approach

Suradkar, P.A. and Kalbande, D.T. Testing Lotka’s Law and Pattern of Author Productivity in the Maharashtra University of Health Services (MUHS) Consortium: A Bibliometric Approach. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal), 2021, vol. 6050, pp. 1-16. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The study analyzes the productivity patterns of authors in Health Science using publications indexed in Maharashtra University of Health Services (MUHS) Consortium from 2001 to 2013 based on Lotka’s Law. The study considered 20724 articles for the analysis. The findings of the study reveal only co-authors and non-collaborative authors’ categories fit in the Lotka’s Law, whereas all-authors and first-author categories differ from it.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Lotka’s Law, Productivity Patterns, Co-authorship Index (CAI), KolmogorovSmirnov Test (K-S Test), Collaborative Co-Efficient (CC). Bibliometric Study, Scietometrics, Maharashtra University of Health Services (MUHS) Consortium, Health Science Journals
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr Dattatraya kalbande
Date deposited: 30 Aug 2021 16:40
Last modified: 30 Aug 2021 16:40
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/42404

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