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Citation Analysis of Ph.D theses in Economics Submitted to Karnatak University, Dharwad (2009-2013)


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1 Dept of Library and Information Science,Karnataka state women‟s university,Vijayapura-586108, India
2 Dept of Library and Information Science, Karnataka State women‟s University Vijayapura-586108, India
 

The present study is based on 5219 citations, appended to the 47 PhD theses of economics submitted to Karnatak University, Dharwad for the award of doctoral degree in Economics during the period 2009-2013. The study revealed that journals articles, books and reports were the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of economics accounting for 45.94%, followed by books with 25.90 % and reports with 22.23% citations. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics has ranked the first with 257 citations accounting for 10.71% of the total journal citations. Journal of economics and political weekly 8.59% occupies the second rank getting 206 citations, followed by Indian journal of labour economics 7.92% with 190 citations. Authorship pattern for journal citations shows that most of the citations were contributed by single authors.

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Citation Analysis, Bibliometric, Authorship Pattern, Ranking of Journals.
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Authors

D. Biradar Nirmala
Dept of Library and Information Science,Karnataka state women‟s university,Vijayapura-586108, India
P. G. Tadasad
Dept of Library and Information Science, Karnataka State women‟s University Vijayapura-586108, India

Abstract


The present study is based on 5219 citations, appended to the 47 PhD theses of economics submitted to Karnatak University, Dharwad for the award of doctoral degree in Economics during the period 2009-2013. The study revealed that journals articles, books and reports were the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of economics accounting for 45.94%, followed by books with 25.90 % and reports with 22.23% citations. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics has ranked the first with 257 citations accounting for 10.71% of the total journal citations. Journal of economics and political weekly 8.59% occupies the second rank getting 206 citations, followed by Indian journal of labour economics 7.92% with 190 citations. Authorship pattern for journal citations shows that most of the citations were contributed by single authors.

Keywords


Citation Analysis, Bibliometric, Authorship Pattern, Ranking of Journals.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32344/jld%2Fv1%2Fi2%2F2015%2F1-19