1MVGRR Degree College, Bhattiprolu-522 256, Guntur (Dt.), Andhra Pradesh.
2Dr. BR Ambedkar Memorial Library, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur (Dt).
3Unversity P.G. College, Kakatiya University, Karimnagar.
Reports a study of one hundred and sixty five doctoral theses in Geology submitted to Andhra University during the period 1954–2005. A total of 33,923 citations were analysed for identifying their bibliographic form, authorship pattern, ranking of cited journals and subject wise distributions of citations. The finding reveals that nearly 75% citations were from journals and 11% from books. The subject-wise distribution of theses reveals that Geology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, General Science and sedimentology forms 66% more than half of the total theses submitted during the period. USA India and UK contributes 26736 (79.31%) citations. The authorship pattern study reveals that the highest number of journal citations from multi-authors nearly 73%.
