An Analytical Study of Indian Open Access Social Science Journals

Kirtania, Deep Kumar An Analytical Study of Indian Open Access Social Science Journals., 2018 [Preprint]

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This study performs an analytical study of Indian Open Access Social Science journals. Journals details as well as their cited and uncited papers, citations, author productivity has been examined for the quantitative assessment. Fifteen OA social science journals have been selected which are indexed in Social Science Citation Index, SCImago and Directory of Open Access Journals. Citations of the articles have been recorded form Google Scholar with the help of Publish or Perish 6 software. The study founds 5827 articles have been published by fifteen open access journals, out of them 3632 articles have cited. Correlation Coefficient of cited and uncited articles and Rank Correlation of articles and their Citations have showed the positive trend. This original research article could be helpful to the social sciences as well as library and information science professionals.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Open Access, Social Science Journals, Google Scholar, Publish or Perish, India.
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Deep kumar Kirtania
Date deposited: 20 Apr 2023 05:14
Last modified: 20 Apr 2023 05:14
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44181

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