1M.Phil Student, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1, College Street, Kolkata-700 073, West Bengal, India
2Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, 87/1, College Street, Kolkata-700 073, West Bengal, India
*(*Corresponding author) email id: deepkrlis@gmail.com
The purpose of the study is to identify the pattern of authorship and the collaboration of six Indian Open Access Social Science Journals during 2011–2015. Bibliographic data were collected from 785 articles based on authorship studies such as authorship pattern, number of authors, Indian versus foreign authors and citation rate. The study found that Collaborative Coefficient and Degree of Collaboration of these articles were 0.39 and 0.62 respectively, which clearly indicate that the research trend is towards the shared or joint authorship in social science filed.
Authorship studies, Collaborative coefficient, Collaborative index, Degree of collaboration, Author productivity
