*Assistant Professor (Guest faculty), Department of Library and information science, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh171005, India. E-mail: rakhra.ss@gmail.com
**Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh171005, India. E-mail: khemthakur99@gmail.com
***Research Scholar, Department of Library and information science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab147002, India. E-mail: nehmankaur@yahoo.com
*Corresponding Author: Sukhdev Singh, Assistant Professor (Guest faculty), Department of Library and information science, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh171005, India. E-mail: rakhra.ss@gmail.com
The study describes and analyses key bibliometric patterns of 20370 citations appended to 1561 research articles published in Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics during 1998-2017.A demographic analysis is done to comprehend the chronological growth and authorship pattern ofIndian and foreign contributors associated with different educational and research institutes of the world. Further geographical distribution (nationally and internationally) of contributions along with their pagination is carried out. We have usedtraditional manual data analysis technique to reach at the conclusions.
Bibliometrics, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Scientometrics, Citation analysis, Mathematics literature
