Indian Journal of Chemistry-Section A: A Bibliometric Study

摘要

Purpose: The study seeks to apply citation analysis on Indian Journal of Chemistry-Section A (LJC-A) to ftnd out the various bibliometric parameters Methodology: LJC-A a leading chemistry journal in India published by NISCAIR was selected for study. A total of 6104 citations were collected from 178 articles published in the year 2014 and 2015. In MS-Excel spreadsheet, bibliographic details such as authors, title, year, name of journal were downloaded. Separate spread sheets were prepared for different bibliometric parameters. Data were analyzed and suitable mathematical computations were done as per the requirement.Findings: By analyzing the citations, it was found that 46.05% citations were published during 2001-2010. Journal articles were the most cited documents among all. Articles written by three authors were cited maximum number of times. R G Parr was the most cited author. The highest number of citation were generated by USA. Ranked list of core cited journals, most frequently cited articles and highly productive institutes in the field of Chemistry were also determined.Originality: By the citation analysis of LJC-A various bibliometric parameters like year-wise distribution of citations, to identify most frequently used type of documents, most cited author, most cited article, core cited journal, most productive institute were determined in the field of inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, spectroscopy and analytical chemistry.