The paper deals with the citation analysis of 3109 citations that figured in dodoral dissertations submitted to the department of Education, AMU, Aligarh during the year 1990–2005. The study was carried out to determine the use pattern of literature by the researchers in the field of Education. The citation pertained to journals, books, dissertation, thesis, papers, reports, conferences, newspapers etc. The result shows that the books have the highest number of citations, accounting 46.05% of the total citation. The majority of the documents, i.e., 2796 (89.93%) out of the 3109 are in English Language and the rest i.e. 294 are in other language. It is observed that 713 of the articles are published from India. 2547(81.92%) of the articles have been produced by single author. The “Educational Review” occupied the first position with the highest citation numbers i.e., 142(10.74%).
Citation Study, Doctoral Dissertations, Education
