International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Applicability of lotka’s Law in the Journal of Advances in Geosciences Publications: A Scientometrics Study

1Assistant Professor, DLIS, Bharathidasan University, Trichirappalli, Tamilnadu

2Associate Professor, DLIS, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, T.N, India

Abstract

The paper is based on analyses of 787 papers by 2862 authors collected in the Journal of Advances in Geosciences publications from DOAJ. This study targets the authorship pattern and applicability of Lotka's Law by counting the number of publications by each author, also applies the Chi-square test to test the hypothesis and finds the law still applicable to this research.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Authorship Pattern, Lotka's law, Geosciences, Journals Publications, DOAJ