R. LAKSHMI MLIS – Final Year Student
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R. LAKSHMI MLIS – Final Year Student
Publication productivity of any literature is the index to know the growth
of that science. Measuring the publication productivity of individuals,
organizations and periodicals were also the determining factor for
understanding the growth and development of the subject
For measuring the quality of the journal the bibliometrics study is very
much useful to judge the nature of the journal and its scope for research
Bibliometrics is the method of measuring the
publication productivity of an author, institution or
country
1. Bradford’s law of scattering of scientific papers
2. Zipf’s law of word occurrence
3. Lotka’s inverse square law of scientific
productivity
It is decided by the researcher to study about the growth and
development of commerce and management literature published
in the journal “SMART Journal of Business and Management
studies” . Hence, the study is the bibliometrics analysis of
SMART Journal of Business and Management,
The researcher decided to study the
publication productivity of the journal since
its inception i.e 2005 to 2012
To reveal the trend of publishing articles in the Journal
To identify the scattering of research articles in the various
subject areas of commerce and management covered by the
journal studied.
To identify the institution wise and geographical
contribution made to the journal.
To study the authorship pattern and examine the relevance
of Lotkas Law
It is decided by the researcher to study about the growth
and development of commerce and management
literature published in the journal “SMART Journal of
Business and Management studies” . Hence, the study is
the bibliometrics analysis of SMART Journal of
Business and Management,
Percentage Method
Growth Rate by Time Series analysis
Doubling Time by using Subramaniam’s
Formula
Authors Productivity by Lotka’s Law
First Chapter ‘Introduction’.
Second Chapter ‘ Review of Literature’.
Third Chapter ‘Methodology’.
Fourth Chapter ‘Analysis of Data’.
Fifth Chapter ‘Findings and Conclusion’
Year No Articles Percentage
2005 29 16.6
2006 27 15.4
2007 24 13.7
2008 23 13.1
2009 21 12
2010 22 12.6
2011 21 12
2012 (6 Month) 8 4.6
Total 175 100
Subject No. Percentage
HRM 45 25.8
Marketing 36 20.5
Fin Mgt 31 17.8
Banking 13 7.5
Economics 10 5.6
Pages No .of Articles Percentage
1-5 6 3.3
6-10 9 5.2
11-15 11 6.3
16-20 9 5.2
21-25 11 6.3
Above 25 129 73.7
Total 175 100
Out of 175 papers, 58 (33.2 percent) have 6 to
10 references, which is followed by 38 papers
(21.7 percent) with 11-15 references, 31 papers
(17.7 percent) with 1-5 references. Hence, it is
found that the authors contributed articles for the
there journal have a healthy trend of citing a
moderate number of references.
Institutions Records Percentage
Bharathidasan University 26 14.9 Annamalai University 21 12
Pondicherry University 19 10.9
P.S.G. College 11 6.3
Karunya University 9 5.2
Alagappa University 8 4.6
SRM University 6 3.4
Author Articles Rank
Babu .M 6 1
Chinnadorai K.M. 5 2
Clement 5 2
Nambirajan .T 4 4
Sankaran 4 4
On an average 10 to 11 articles were published from every issue of the
journal
The maximum number of papers (16.6 percent) was published in the year
2005 and minimum number of papers (12 percent) of 21 each was
published in the year 2009 and 2011respectively.
Average growth rate of publication productivity of the journal is 4.3. The
growth rate of the journal with the doubling time is 5.9; the rate of growth
is in positive trend.
Of the 175 papers, the length of (129, 73.7 percent) had the pages of more than 25
paper, 6.3 percent with 21-25 pages, and 5.2 percent with 16-20 pages.
The maximum of 221 authors from Tamilnadu contributing to SMART Journal
during the period of study next to this, 11 authors from Pondicherry contributing to
this journal stood in the second place.
The maximum 45 authors each from Tiruchirappalli and Coimbatore ranked first in
contributing to the SMART Journal. Next to this authors from Kadalur district
contributed 24 papers during the period of study ranked in the second place.
It is noted that India ranks first in order of contributing 293 authors. This is due to
the fact that the SMART Journal is published from India.
Prof. M. Babu (6) is the top among the contributing authors for the journal SMART
during do the period of study followed by K.M. Chinnadorai (5) and J.C. Clement
Sudan (5) with five articles each ranked in the second place.
The journal has remarkable changes such as the
quality of papers published increased tremendously with
latest information. The subscriptions of SMART
Journal are continuously increasing and it has been
successful in its primary objective of information
dissemination in the field of commerce and
management.