<b>INDIAN JOURNAL OF PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY</b>

Abstract

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<i>Bibliometric analysis of &nbsp;</i><i>8396 </i><i>citations appended to 737</i>

<i>articles published in the Indian Journal of Pure </i>&amp; <i>Applied</i>

<i>Mathematics, volumes </i><i>29</i> <i>to </i><i>33</i> <i>during the years 1998-</i>

<i>2002 and 470 citations appended to </i><i>70</i> <i>articles published</i>

<i>in the maiden volume </i><i>1</i> <i>published in 1970 has been</i>

<i>carried out to observe the distribution of contributions,</i>

<i>authorship pattern, citation analysis, geographical</i>

<i>distribution of contributions and number of pages used</i>

<i>in each volume. </i>A <i>comparative study of articles published</i>

<i>in five volumes vis-a-vis those in volume </i><i>1</i> <i>has been</i>

<i>made. Results indicate that the number of contributions</i>

<i>is increasing in successive volumes. Highest number of</i>

<i>papers have been written by joint authors. The most cited</i>

<i>documents are articles from the research joumals. The</i>

<i>contributions in this journal from India and other countries</i>

<i>are almost equal. Among the Indian states, Uttar Pradesh</i>

<i>is the top contributor whereas among the Indian</i>

<i>universities/institutes, University of Delhi is at the top. At</i>

<i>the International level, India is the top contributor followed</i>

by <i>China</i><i>. The growth and popularity of this journal is</i>

<i>found to </i>be <i>showing an upward trend.</i>

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