Authorship Pattern and Degree of Collaboration in Indian Chemistry Literature
Pallab Pradhan · 2011
The study presents the trends in authorship pattern and author’s collaborative research in Indian chemistry literature with a sample of 53,977 articles downloaded from SCI-Expanded database in Web of Science during the period 2000-2009. The average number of authors per article is 3.55 %. In the study the degree of collaboration (C) during the overall 10 years (2000-2009) is 0.03, but the year wise degree of collaboration is almost same in all the years of mean value 0.97. I n the 10 y ears of period, the mul ti-authorship articles ar e higher and pr edominant on single authorship. The study found that the researchers in chemistry are keen towards team research or group research rather than solo research.