A bibliometric study of The Journal of Oilseeds Research

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Analyses 498 research articles comprising 241 full length research papers and 257 short communications published during 1984 to 1992 in Journal of Oilseeds Research (vol. 1 - vol. 9) to find out 0) space allotment for full length research papers and short communications, (ii) authorship pattern, (Hi)author productivity, (iv) prominent contributors, (v) important locations of oilseed research, (vi) pattern of tabular and graphical presentation, (vii) citation pattern, (viii) obsolescence of oilseed literature, Ox) Bradfordan distribution of citations, (x) important keywords figuring in the titles and (xi) time lag between the submission and publication of an article. Some of the important findings are: (i) the number of pages allotted per issue for full length papers as well as short communications vary widely, (ii) the single-authored papers account for only 12%, two-authored papers are found to be maximum and account for 39%, (iii) author productivity is in agreement with Lotka's law, especially, when the value of a is 2.07 and the number of papers is s = 5, (iv) the places - Hissar, Rajendranagar (Hyderabad), Bangalore, New Delhi, Kanpur, Dhanbad, Ludhiana and Pantnagar are found to be the important areas of research in India and (v) on an average a full length research paper has 3 to 4 tables, and short communications 1 to 2 tables. No set pattern is observed in other types of graphic presentations. Important countries and highly cited journals have also been listed. Citations appended to articles do not follow Bradford's Law.</span>