Dr. Biman Bagchi a bibliometric portrait

Sen, B. K. and Karanjai, Aruna Dr. Biman Bagchi a bibliometric portrait., 2003 . In Knowledge Management in Special Libraries in Digital Environment : XXIV All India Conference of Indian Association of Special Libraries & Information Centres (IASLIC), Dehradun (India), 15-18 December, 2003. [Conference paper]

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Analyses bibliometrically 226 publications [Papers Published in journals-220, thesis [others 4] by Biman Bagchi, a renowned physical chemist from India, published during 1981 to 2002. The first contribution of the author was in 1981 at the age of 27. The number of his contributions in a year peaked in 1999 and 2002 when it touched 19. The author is highly productive in as much as on average the author has produced 10 papers per year. In the byline of authorship, Bagchi occupies the first authorship position in 69 cases. His collaborator A. Chandra occupies the first authorship position in 30 papers thus becoming Bagchi's closest collaborator. The journal has been the most preferred channel of communication of the author in as much as 220 papers out of 226 have been praced in journals. J. Chem. Phys. is found to be the most preferred journal that carried 91 papers of the author, followed by Chem. Phys. Lett. (21 papers). J. Phys. Chem. (19 papers), Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. - Chem. Sci. (13 papers), and others. Of the papers, 179 received 4030 citations and 47 received no citations. It is expected that more than 20 uncited papers till 2002 will receive citations in future. Three papers of the author have received more than 200 citations each, and another three received between 100-200 citations each. The number of papers receiving 10 citations or more total 92. On four different years the scientist has received more than 300 citations and his citation rate per paper has peaked at 18.98. The article shows with a concrete example the growth, peaking and declining of citation rate. A few new terms such as citation gain, citation loss, gaining citation rate and losing citation rate have been introduced and described.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, Biobibliometrics, Individual Scientist, Citation analysis
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: V. L. Kalyane
Date deposited: 29 May 2004
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 11:58
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4837

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