Literature contribution in Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding: A citation analysis

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">A <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">total of 4136 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">citations that appeared in the articles of 5 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">volumes, 45-49 (1985-89) <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">of Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding were collected and a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">rank list of 60 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">most cited primary journals representing 66.86% <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">of the total citations were prepared. The study reveals that the literature of Genetics and Plant Breeding was scattered in 574 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">journals of which almost 505 citations were covered by only 20 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">journals. Among them the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding topped the list with 12.35% <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">citations followed by Crop Science (8.17%) <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">and Indian Journal of Agricultural Science (3.50%). Country-wise distribution of first 60 <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">ranked journals and the chronological distribution of all citations are given. It also provides the scenario of contribution of Indian and foreign theses and the authorship pattern revealing that multi-authored papers were more in practice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>