Applicability of lotka’s Law in the Journal of Advances in Geosciences Publications: A Scientometrics Study Amsaveni N.1,*, Batcha M. Sadik2 1Assistant Professor, DLIS, Bharathidasan University, Trichirappalli, Tamilnadu 2Associate Professor, DLIS, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, T.N, India *Corresponding Author: N. Amsaveni, amsaveni.n@bdu.ac.in
Online published on 25 October, 2019. Abstract The paper is based on analyses of 787 papers by 2862 authors collected in the Journal of Advances in Geosciences publications from DOAJ. This study targets the authorship pattern and applicability of Lotka's Law by counting the number of publications by each author, also applies the Chi-square test to test the hypothesis and finds the law still applicable to this research. Top Key Terms Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Authorship Pattern, Lotka's law, Geosciences, Journals Publications, DOAJ. Top |