A Citation Analysis of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted in the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

The paper deals with the citation analysis of 4500 citations that figured in doctoral dissertations submitted to the department of History, AMU Aligarh during the year 1990–2010. The study was carried out to determine the use pattern of literature by the researchers in the field of History. 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 72.5% of the total citation. The majority of the documents, i.e. 45.52% out of the 4500 are in English Language and the rest i.e. 54.56% are in other language. It is observed that 61.29% of the articles are published from India. 77.41% of the articles have been produced by single author followed by a team of two authors, three and more than. The “Journal of Bihar reasearch society” occupied the first position with the highest citation numbers i.e. 6.44%.