A Bibliometric Study on Collaborative Research in Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India: A Glimpse from Scopus Database

This study has been conducted to measure the collaborative research among the social scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India during the year 1998–2017. The sample of 2128 articles has been collected from the Scopus database during the year 1998–2017 and were analyzed to study the collaborative coefficient, collaborative index, year wise degree of collaboration, modified collaboration coefficient, co-authorship index and language wise distribution of articles. From this study, it is found that the growth rate of publications in the social sciences is rapidly increasing. The collaborative coefficient is below 0.5 which implies that single-authored papers are dominating. The co-authorship index for the single-authored paper is higher, and the degree of collaboration is low as the value is 0. The research articles are the preferred format to publish in the journals. This study was limited to the data collected from the Scopus database during the period 1998–2017. The findings have significant implications for the researchers/scholars to know the growth and trend of collaborative research in the social sciences. This study extends the knowledge on the bibliometric tools employed to measure the collaborative research in the social sciences.