Authorship Patterns in Biodiversity Literature: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

The study presents the authorship patterns in the field of Biodiversity Literature based on the publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the period from 1989 to 2016. Overall total 154654 records were retrieved. BibExcel toolbox and MS-Excel spreadsheet were used to analyze the data. Findings of the analysis revealed that the single author papers have declining trend and there by collective contributions have an increasing performance in scientific research activities. It is found that the degree of collaboration is an increasing and decreasing trend. The collaborative index for universal level value of 4.50 show popularity towards collaborative research pattern than single research in biodiversity literature. The Gaston KJ Published 257 papers with 83.863 fractional numbers an average of 0.33 got first position.

Keyword: Authorship pattern, scientometric, bibliometrics, degree of collaboration, growth study

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Hydar Ali, Adithya Kumari H. Authorship Patterns in Biodiversity Literature: A Scientometric Analysis. Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences. 2018; 5(2): 1–11p.