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Purpose: Scientometric study is a quantitative analysis of various collection of information resources have been evaluated using a variety of metrics, examine the pattern of the authorship; pattern of the citations; document types cited information used by researchers; and find out the top ranking of journals & Scimago journal category for Physics. In this study the researchers examined Country wise journal citation, supervisor wise, ranking, year wise, and core subjects’ trends also.This paper aims to explore the Scientometric analysis of doctoral theses in the field of physics awarded by DHSGSU Sagar, (M.P.) India. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a data collected total number of twentynine doctoral theses in field of physics during the years 2001–2010. collected of data is both method offline and online mode in field of Physics raw data has collected print form the from Jawaharlal Nehru DHSGSU Sagar (M.P) Library and also visit the department meet the supervisors’ collected data of Physics, online theses data collected form Shodhganga e-theses in physics awarded by DHSGSU Sagar, (M.P). The data are tabulated and analyzed with quantitative statistics analysis methods using using SPSS, MS-Excel tables, graphs, diagrams and various parameters of Scientometric. Finding: The study found that out the journals were the most popular information sources utilized by subject of Physics studies researchers, accounting for 4764 (70.75%) of the total citations, followed by 905 (13.44%) citations of books. Top journals wise results are first ranked of journal i.e. “Journal of Geophysical Research” most with 496 most citations and second ranked journal “Journal of Solid-State Ionics” with 280 citations. In this study, the authorship pattern wise journal citations indicate that the majority of the citations of two authors with first rank in this study with a total number of 1552 (32.58%) citations who dominate in Physics and are second highest with a total number of 1497 (31.42%) citations followed by three authored citations accounting with 854 (17.93%) citations. the Country wise research performance is first rank of this study is United States contributed 1498(31.44%) having maximum citations. Practical implications: The literature review revealed that the journals are top most majority of citations in this study The future importance and scope of this study are fundamental guidelines for researchers’ selection of research topics and innovations in the field of physical science. Originality/value: This study will provide an idea of increasing trends in innovative research and ideas for researchers. The study finds that the researchers prefer foreign information sources due to the qualitative nature of the research. This study will be very helpful for librarian collection development policy, budget, selection of periodicals, and study materials in all science fields.

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