SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2001
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue: 1

Impact of Research Collaboration on Growth of Literature in Ethnobotany: A Bibliometric Study

  • Author:
  • A.K. Dhiman1, S.C. Sinha2
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 53 to 62

1Faculty of Management Studies, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, 249 404UP, INDIA.

2Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee - 247 667, UP, INDIA.

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to derive nature of growth of literature in Ethnobotany during 1989–1999, type of collaboration among authors and the trend of growth during this period, degree of collaboration among various categories of authors, correlation of the growth of various authors and impact of collaboration on growth of literature. It is concluded that Ethnobotany is a developing branch because the collaborative publications are being published regularly.

Keywords

Ethnobotany, Collaborative research, Bibliometric study