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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volume  12, Issue 3, Sep-Dec 2018, Pages 159-168
 

Original Article

Testing of Bradford Law through Identification of Core Journals of Faculty members at Periyar University: A Scientometric Profile

Chandran Velmurugan

Researcher, Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu 636011, India

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.12318.2

Abstract

  This study is based on the scholarly communications of faculty members at Periyar University as reflected in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Science Citation Index (SCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI). This paper aims to ascertain the growth and development of scholarly publications published by faculty members from Periyar University as reflected in Web of Science citation database and found a total 703 scientific publications contributed in seven document types in the website. As a whole, the most of the document was peer viewed scholarly journal articles (684), which involved 97.29 per cent and the TLCS was 612 and TGCS was 4469 of the total publications. The other sources are includes review (6; 0.85 per cent), meeting abstract (5; 0.72 per cent), correction (3; 0.43 per cent), Letters (3; 0.43 per cent), proceedings papers (1; 0.14 per cent), editorial materials (1; 0.14 per cent). Even though, the original peer reviewed articles were still significant and focuses the scientometric analysis, but counting the proceedings papers and other source types as well. To evaluate the literature output, the scientometric indicators such as EGR, CAI, RCI etc. have used and Bradford law of scattering used to test the relationship between the zones. 


Keywords : Faculty publications; Scientometrics; PU; scattering of journals; Research trend; Bradford law; WOS
Corresponding Author : Chandran Velmurugan, Researcher, Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu 636011, India