Dr. Raj Chandra Bose, American-Indian Mathematical Statistician, one of euler spoilers: A scientometric portrait

Raj Chandra Bose is a well-known name in the field of Mathematics, and Statistics in India and United States. He is considered as American-Indian Mathematical Statistician, one of Euler Spoilers, and foundations of Cryptology, Coding Theory and related scientific discipline. He has contributed 164 publications during his active productive period 1926–1984 that is, 59 years of his research career including 112 journal articles, 19 conference proceedings, 21 books, 11 book chapters and 1 technical report. His first two papers published in 1926, when he was too young. His research contributions include 64 non-collaborative and 100 collaborative publications along with 133 collaborators (individual name wise 65). This study depicts a quantitative analysis of his contributions through scientometric study showing different bibliometric indicators such as age-wise publications, authorship patterns, collaborative works, degree of collaboration, status of Bose as main author and co-authors, peak period of paper production, contributions as per preferred publication channels, leading collaborators. His most closed collaborator is S. S. Shrikhande who has published 17 papers with RC Bose. Bose has published maximum number of publications in Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics (N20), Bulletin of Calcutta Mathematical Society (N15), and Annals of Mathematical Statistics (N11). It counts citation received from his papers and also has enumerated Relative Uncited Index (RUI), Relative Citation Impact (RCI) and frequency distribution of keywords. Finally, this study also examines whether the data set does satisfy Lotka’s Law and Bradford’s Law or not.