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Mapping of Plastics Literature (1998-2002):A Bibliometric Study


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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106, Karnataka, India
2 Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106, India
     

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Plastics is a product of Polymers, which finds a wide variety of applications. Bibliometric analysis of 6444 publications related to Plastics, as indexed in Biological Abstracts on CD, during 1998-2002 was undertaken. On an average, 1289 papers were published every year. Two and more authored papers constitute majority of the contributions and degree of collaboration amounts to 0.81. This shows that team research is prevalent in the area of Plastics. USA produces largest amount of literature related to Plastics and English is the most predominant language used for publishing the literature related to Plastics during the study period.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Plastics, Plastics Literature.
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N. Parvathamma
Department of Library and Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106, Karnataka
India

Devendra S. Gobbur
Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106
India


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Authors

N. Parvathamma
Department of Library and Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106, Karnataka, India
Devendra S. Gobbur
Gulbarga University, Gulbarga 585 106, India

Abstract


Plastics is a product of Polymers, which finds a wide variety of applications. Bibliometric analysis of 6444 publications related to Plastics, as indexed in Biological Abstracts on CD, during 1998-2002 was undertaken. On an average, 1289 papers were published every year. Two and more authored papers constitute majority of the contributions and degree of collaboration amounts to 0.81. This shows that team research is prevalent in the area of Plastics. USA produces largest amount of literature related to Plastics and English is the most predominant language used for publishing the literature related to Plastics during the study period.

Keywords


Bibliometrics, Plastics, Plastics Literature.

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