INDIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY: A CITATION ANALYSIS

Abstract

The present paper is aimed to find out the authorship pattern and citation pattern of article that appeared Indian Journal of Plant Physiology The study covers issue nos. 1 to 4 of volume 7 published between January to December 2002, covering 61 articles published in these issues. Overall 1149 citations featuring 2770 authors have been made during the year. The results indicate that 39% articles published (citing articles) in these issues are three-authored. However, it is found that two authored citations (cited articles) are more common which is followed by singel-authored papers. The results reveal that journal articles are predominant with 81 % of total citations. The ratio of author self citation to total citations is 1: 16.65. The ratio of Journal Self Citation to total citations is 1:31.91. The results also highlight that 398 citations are below 10 years old, whereas 358 citations are below 20 years but more than 10 years old. It is clear that a majority of documents cited in these issues were published not more than twenty years ago.