Authorship pattern and degree of collaboration in journal articles: A citation study of doctoral dissertations 1991–2010

The paper presents a case study of the authorship pattern and degree of collaboration in the field of horticulture based on a sample of 8437 journal articles and 1327 books citations appended to 80 doctoral dissertations of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) and Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV), West Bengal during 1991 to 2010. It shows that the horticulture scientists mainly used journal articles (77.796%) for collecting the required information. The study reveals that out of 8437 references cited, 1763 (20.695%) are single authored articles and 6665 (78.997%) are multi-authored articles. Team research is on the increase in the field of horticulture. Two authored (37.039%) are the highest in the cited journals followed by three authored (25.116%), single authored (20.896%) and four authored (11.332%) papers. The highest number of cited articles is in the year 2005 with 947 (11.236%).