International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

A Study of Authorship Pattern and Degree of Collaboration in Business Research during 1998–2017

Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Jagmohan Nagar, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

*Corresponding Author Ranjita Mishra ranjitamishraibcs@gmail.com

Online published on 18 January, 2019.

Abstract

The study aims to find out the authorship pattern and degree of collaboration in business research with 89259 publications and 180226 authorships during 1998 to 2017 extracted from SCOPUS database. An average author per paper is 2.18. Bibliometric methods are used to get the results. It reveals the dominance of multi authorship over single authorship since 2005. The degree of collaboration during the study period is 0.6 and it has been increasing over the study period. Researchers in this area are showing their interest in collaborative/team/group research than solo research.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Authorship Pattern, Degree of Collaboration, Author Collaboration, Business Research Collaboration