Indian journal of traditional knowledge: A scientometric study (2002–2012) Shivakumaraswmay K.N.1,*, Muthuraj T.N.2 1B. G. S. Institute of Technology B G Nagara, Nagamangala (Tq), Mandya 2Mysore Royal Institute of Technology, S. R. Patna (Tq), Mandya *Corresponding Author K.N. Shivakumaraswmay, bgsitlibrarian@gmail.com
Online published on 15 November, 2018. Abstract The study focuses on scientometric studies on ‘Indian Journals of Traditional Knowledge ’has been carried out, journal containing 938 articles from 2002–2012 have been taken into consideration for the present study. The analysis covers and discusses in terms of year-wise distribution of articles; year-wise authorship pattern; single vs multiple authored papers; month-wise distribution of articles; authorship pattern of cited references; geographical distribution of articles; country-wise distribution of articles; state-wise (India) contribution of articles; length of article; author-wise distribution of articles; etc. it registered annual growth 10 articles in 2002 to 139 articles in 2012. The highest number of articles, 139 (14.81%) were published in 2010 and lowest number i.e. 10 (1.06%) in 2003. A total of 938 articles were published during the period distributed over 39 issues of the journals. On an average 24 articles were published per issue. Top Keywords Scientometrics, Blibliomatrics, Author Productivity, Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. Top |