Citations in the Sociology Doctoral Dissertations: A Quantitative Analysis

The present study is based on 9, 162 citations, appended in the 77 doctoral theses of Sociology submitted to Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and Osmania University, Hyderabad for the award of doctoral degree during the period 1974–2005. It has been carried-out from 1974 to observe the distribution of authorship pattern, bibliographic form, core journals, country, language, subject wise distribution of journal citations and core periodicals. The single authored papers were highest contribution in book citations 76.77% of total citations, and multi authored papers were highest contribution 55.57% of the total journal citations. The sociology researchers in both the Universities referred mostly book source rather than other sources. Most of the publications cited by the sociology researchers were published by developed countries and all the citations were published in English language only.