1Librarian, Department of Library and Information Centre, Maharani's Science College for Women, Palace Road, Bangalore–560 001, Karnataka, India; E-mail Id: smariraj@yahoo.co.in
2Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumkur–572 103, Karnataka, India; E-mail Id: keshkud@gmail.com
Scientometric analysis of the 44 publications by Charles K Kao published during 1968 – 2008 has been done in the present paper. The result of the study shows that Charles K Kao had published 12 single authored and 32 multi-authored (publications) papers during 1968–2008. The multi-authored papers include: two-authored (9), three authored (10), four authored (1), five authored (6), six authored (3), seven, eight and ten authored (1). His highest productivity was in 2003 with the output of 4 publications (age 70), followed by 3 papers each in 2001 (age, 68 years), 2004 (age, 71 years) and 2008 (age, 75 years). The 50 percentile productivity life was 20 at the age of 54 years. The total productivity life of the author spans 41 years from the age of 35. Charles K Kao has received 127 citations for his 44 articles and his hindex 6.
Scientometric portrait, scientometrics, publication productivity, research collaboration
