1Former Librarian, Prathyusha Institute of Technology and Management, Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530003, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author email id: gsprasad1967@gmail.com
Online published on 18 November, 2022.
Reports a study of Eighty doctoral theses in Applied Chemistry submitted to Cochin University of Science and Technology during the period 1990–2012. A total of 26,568 citations were analysed for identifying their bibliographic form, authorship pattern, ranking of cited journals and subject wise distributions of citations. The finding reveals that 23,042 (86.73%) citations were from journals and 2935 (11.05% from books. The subject-wise distribution of theses reveals that Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry 81.47% of the total theses submitted during the period. USA, UK, The Netherlands are contributes 21,629 (81.42%) citations. The authorship pattern study reveals that the highest number of journal citations from multi authors authors nearly 83.97%. Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Catalysis, Tetra Hydron Letters and Journal of Physical Chemistry and American Journal of Science are contributes 7,205 (31.26%) citations.
Bibliometric analysis, Doctoral theses, Applied chemistry
