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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE (2011-2015): AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE JOURNAL

Christo Somi, Librarian Ammini College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala E mail: [email protected]

Deepa John, Faculty, Dept. Library and Information Science, S. B. College, Changanacherry, Kerala E mail: [email protected]

Yamuna P.B, Faculty, Dept. Library and Information Science, S. B. College, Changanacherry, Kerala E mail: [email protected] Abstract: This paper analyses different bibliometric feature of Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO), an international, multi- and inter-disciplinary scientific open-access journal in the field of Solar–terrestrial physics for the period 2011-2015.The data were downloaded from the journals website. The analysis covers mainly the number of contributions, authorship pattern, pattern of citations, most prolific authors etc. The results show that the growth pattern of the journal is inconsistent and it is decreased considerably in recent years when compared to 2011. An increasing trend in collaboration among the researchers has been observed in the scientific disciplines. Analysis of contribution of 60 volumes of the journal shows that it covers contributions related to nearly all aspects of Solar Terrestrial Physics.

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Annales Geophysicae, Solar Terrestrial physics.

1.0 Introduction: Journals play leading role for the dissemination of information by providing up to date development of researches. It acts as a communication link between the researchers and the common man. Scholarly journals of a country reflect the quantity of research being carried out in that parts of the world.1 Due to the escalating cost of the periodicals and lack of sufficient library budgets the selection of any specific journal for a library should be done more carefully. Therefore, the library authorities are compelled to cut down the number of journal subscriptions. In this scenario most of the libraries turn to use peer reviewed journal to solve this problem. Open access has brought in new vistas for the dissemination of scholarly content. Today, world over scholarly content in various forms is distributed online on internet, free of charge and free from copy right and licensing restrictions by publishers, institutions and individuals.2 Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO) is an international, multi- and inter-disciplinary scientific open-access journal in the field of Solar–terrestrial physics. It is published by European Geosciences Union. The periodicity of this journal is monthly. ANGEO publishes original articles and short communications (letters) in the sciences of the Sun–Earth system, including the science of space weather, the solar–terrestrial plasma physics, and the Earth's atmosphere. „Annales Geophysicae‟ makes available full text research articles from 1994(vol.12) to the present. This journal is one of the primarily publication in the field of Solar-terrestrial physics. The present study attempts to measure the pattern of publication of „Annales Geophysicae‟ (ANGEO) from 2011 to 2015. 2.0 Objectives The main objectives of the study are as follows: 1. To examine the number of contribution and the pattern of growth of articles published in „Annales Geophysicae‟ during 2011 to 2015. 2. To identify the authorship pattern and degree of collaboration. 3. To examine the length of articles. 4. To find the year wise distribution of citation. 194 | P a g e Christo Somi, Deepa John and Yamuna P.B - A Bibliometric Analysis of Annales Geophysicae (2011-2015): An International Online Journal International Journal of Information Movement Vol.2 Issue XI (March 2018) IFSIJ Impact Factor : 1.575 Website: www.ijim.in ISSN: 2456-0553 (online) Pages 194-202

5. To identify the most prolific author and their work affiliation. 6. To identify the subject dispersion in articles published in „Annales Geophysicae‟ during 2011 to 2015. 7. To identify the productivity of highly prolific organisation and; 8. Country-wise affiliation of articles.

3.0 Review of Literature Fiala and Willett (2015) investigated the development of research in computer science in 15 Eastern European countries following the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989.The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of 82,121 computer science publications indexed in the database and investigated publication, citation, and collaboration patterns of the individual countries. Results shows that Poland has been the most productive country, followed by Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, and Slovenia. Publication rates have increased substantially over the period, but this has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the quality of the publications. Hungary and Slovenia are the most influential countries in terms of citations per paper. Artificial Intelligence is the most frequently occurring computer science subject category, with Interdisciplinary Applications the category with the greatest impact. Zhu, Qiaoli, et al.(2015) determined the global scientific outputs of ontology research, an important emerging discipline that has huge potential to improve information understanding, organization, and management. This study collected literature published during 1900-2012 from the Web of Science database. The bibliometric analysis was performed from authorial, institutional, national, spatiotemporal, and topical aspects. Basic statistical analysis, visualization of geographic distribution, co-word analysis, and a new index were applied to the selected data. Characteristics of publication outputs suggested that ontology research has entered into the soaring stage, along with increased participation and collaboration. The investigators identified the leading authors, institutions, nations, and articles in ontology research. Authors were more from North America, Europe, and East Asia. The USA took the lead, while China grew fastest. Maharana, Rabindra K.(2014) analyzed Indian researcher‟s publications on malaria research and to serve as a guide to libraries needing to collect information on malariaFor the purpose of the study Indian researchers‟ publication data which were indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WoS) were used. The present study found out 2,020 documents with h-index of 48, published by Indian researchers which were indexed in WoS during 2003 to 2012 and the majority of them were articles (81.43 percent). Malaria Journal is the most favored research journal among the Indian research community which covers 97 papers. A.P. Dash contributed maximum number of 136 (6.74 percent) papers. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the largest Indian funding agency with 184 (9.11 percent) research grants. Limitation by geographical area and time, i.e. the study only focuses the research publication of Indian researchers on malaria research during 2003 to 2012. Tsay, Ming-yueh (2013) made an attempt to explore the knowledge input and the subject relationship with other disciplines for the domain of information science through a citation analysis, from the references of each article from 1998 to 2008, of four leading information science journals, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Information Science, and Journal of Documentation. The Ulrich‟s Periodical Directory, Library of Congress Subject Heading, retrieved from the World Cat and LISA database were used to identify the main class, subclass and subject of cited journals and books. The study reveals the highly cited subjects of LIS journals encompass searching, online information retrieval, information work, subject indexing, World Wide Web, technical services, citation analysis, information seeking behaviour, etc. The three most cited LCSH subjects on World Cat of books are information storage and retrieval, information science, human-computer interaction, etc. 4.0 Scope All journal issues from 2011-2015 were examined page by page. For each volume full length scholarly papers including research articles and review articles were identified. Other types of materials such as (obituaries, letters, announcements, news item, committee reports, and features) were excluded in the analysis. The commentaries on a particular article written by many author were counted as one article. This study ignores the native country of authors and country wise distribution of articles only based on country on which the authors affiliated organisation is situated.

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5.0 Methodology The present study tries to find out the literature growth, authorship and collaboration pattern, average length of articles, most prolific organisation etc., in the „Annales Geophysicae‟. 5 volumes (Vol. No. 29 to 33) of Annales Geophysicae, published between 2011 to 2015 containing 60 issues have been taken into consideration for the present study. The source data was downloaded from http//:www.ann-geophys.net. The data was processed on MS Excel sheets. Data was analysed to meet the objectives mentioned above. Complete count method has been followed for the analysis of the data.

6.0 Data Analysis Table 1 -Average Number of Articles Published Per Year and Per Issue Average Average Total number Issues per Total number Sl. No. Year number of number of of Issues Year of articles articles/year articles/Issue 1 2011-2015 60 12 796 66.33 13.27 Table 1 reveals Annales Geophysicae published 796 articles in 60 issues of 5 volumes during 2011-2015. A single volume of Annales Geophysicae publishes 12 issues per year. Table 1 shows on an average 13.27 (approximately 13) articles published per issue and 66.33 (approximately 66) articles per year. Table-2 Year Wise Distribution of Articles Per Issue

Number of Percentage Average No of Sl. No. Year Issues articles (%) articles per Issue 1 2011 203 12 25.50% 19.92 2 2012 146 12 18.34% 12.17 3 2013 183 12 22.99% 15.25 4 2014 127 12 15.95% 10.58 5 2015 137 12 17.21% 11.42 Total 796 60 100% 13.27 Table 2 shows the distribution of articles published in „Annales Geophysicae‟ during 2011 – 2015. The total number of articles published during the period of study is 796 out of which the highest number of articles were published in 2011 contributing 203 (25.50%) and the lowest number of articles were published in 2014 contributing 127 (15.95%) to the total number of articles. It is observed that number of article published during the year 2011 and 2013 were more than the cumulative average number of articles and number of article published during the year 2012, 2014 and 2015 were less than the cumulative average number of articles. Fig 1graphically represents the facts. The continuous up and down pattern of the figure indicates that the growth pattern of articles in Annals Geophysicae during study period is inconsistent.

Year wise distribution of articles per issue 250

200 203 183 150 146 137 127 100

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Table – 3 Yearwise Distribution of Number of Authors

Average No. of Average No. of Total No. of Number of Percentage of Year author per articles per Authors articles author article Author 2011 934 203 25.76% 4.60 0.22 2012 665 146 18.34% 4.55 0.22 2013 797 183 21.98% 4.35 0.23 2014 560 127 15.44% 4.41 0.23 2015 670 137 18.48% 4.89 0.20 Total 3626 796 100% 22.8 1.10 The table 3 shows that the total average number of authors per paper is 22.8 for 796 articles. The year 2015 has relatively less than the average number of authors per article when compared to the other years. The total average productivity per author is 1.10 during the years 2011 - 2015. Table - 4 Authorship Pattern Single More than 4 Year 2 Author 3 Author 4 Author Total Author Authors 16 28 47 29 83 2011 203 (7.88%) (13.79%) (23.15%) (14.29%) (40.89%) 11 23 31 24 57 2012 146 (7.53%) (15.75%) (21.23%) (16.44%) (39.04%) 17 28 29 38 71 2013 183 (9.28%) (15.30%) (15.85%) (20.77%) (38.80%) 10 20 27 20 50 2014 127 (7.87%) (15.74%) (21.26%) (15.75%) (39.37%) 9 19 27 27 55 2015 137 (6.57%) (13.87%) (19.71%) (19.71%) (40.14%) 63 118 161 138 316 796 Total (7.91%) (14.82%) (20.23%) (17.34%) (39.70%) (100%)

Analysis of table 4 shows a total number of 796 occurrences of authors in different authorship positions during the period. It was observed that more than four authored contributions 316 (39.70%) were found to be most predominant in collaboration ranging from 5 to 15, three authored 161 (20.23%), four authored 138 (17.34%), followed by two authored 118 (14.82%) and rest of the articles were contributed by single author. It is seen that the multi-authored papers highly out number single authored papers.

Authorship pattern

7.91% 39.70% 14.82%

20.23% 17.34%

Single Author 2 Author 3 Author 4 Author More than 4 Authors

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Table -5 Degree of Collaboration Here Degree of collaboration (DC) was derived by using Subramaniyam formula, as the ratio of the number of collaborative contributions to the total number of research contributors published in the discipline during a certain period of time. Mathematically it can be expressed as

DC = or, (DC) = = 0.92 AG

Where NM refers to the collaborative communications and NS denote the number of single authored communications published during certain period of time. Table 5 reveals the collaboration scenario of the contributors of Annales Geophysicae during 2011 – 2015.

Degree of Multiple Authors Total Year Single Author (NS) Collaboration (NM) NM+NS DC=

2011 16 187 203 0.92 2012 11 135 146 0.92 2013 17 166 183 0.91 2014 10 117 127 0.92 2015 9 128 137 0.93 Total 63 733 796 0.92 Table 5 shows that out of 796 articles about 733 were collaborated by multiple authors ranging from two to twenty- two co-authors and rest were non-collaborative. It is an indication of predominance of group research in the field of Solar-terrestrial Physics. On the other hand, it is also seen from the table that the trend of solo research has been diminishing i.e., 17 non collaborative communications in 2013 has decreased to 9 in 2015. Average degree of collaboration is highly impressive (0.92) which indicates relevance of group or team research in the field. Table -6 Length Wise Distributions of Articles Total Total No. of Average No .of Year 1-10 11-20 21-30 31 ≥ number of pages Pages articles 2011 106 90 7 0 203 2,234 11 2012 62 78 6 0 146 1,700 11.64 2013 89 86 7 1 183 2,139 11.69 2014 60 62 4 1 127 1,469 11.57 2015 76 57 3 1 137 1,460 10.66 Total 393 373 27 3 796 9,002 11.31 Percentage 49.37% 46.86% 3.39% 0.38% 100%

Table 6 shows that the lion share of the articles published were written in between 1-10 pages and 11-20 pages i.e., 393 (49.37%) and 373 (46.86%) respectively. It is found that the average number of pages per articles during the period of study in „Annales Geophysicae‟ is 11.31 (approximately 11). The highest number of pages (2,234) used in the year 2011 and the lowest number of pages (1460) used in the year 2015. The average number of pages is highest i.e., 11.69 in the year 2013 and lowest i.e. 10.66 in the year 2015. Table - 7 Year Wise Distribution of Citations Table 7 shows year wise distribution of citations of „Annales Geophysicae‟ during the period 2011 to 2015.

Average number of citation Year Number of articles Number of Citation Percentage per article 2011 203 7196 23.46% 35.45 2012 146 5904 19.25% 40.44 2013 183 6888 22.46% 37.64

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2014 127 5141 16.76% 40.48 2015 137 5538 18.06% 40.42 Total 796 30667 100% 38.53 Table 7 shows that 796 articles of the Annales Geophysicae had received a total 30667 citations from various literature during the period of 2011-2015. Therefore, on an average about 39 reference were appended in each article which waved from 35 to 40 during the study period. The highest number of citation is used in the year 2011 i.e. 7196 (23.46%) and 2014 received the lowest number of citations i.e., 5141 (16.76%). „Defining and resolving current systems in geospace‟ by N. Y. Ganushkina and others in volume 33, issue 11 had 289 references which was highest among all the articles published in Annales Geophysicae during the study period.

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23.46 25 22.46 19.25 20 16.76 18.06

15 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Year Figure 3: Line Chart Showing Year Wise Distribution Of Citations Table–8 Range of Reference Frequency of Percentage of Total number of Percentage of Citation Range Citation articles Citation Citation 1 – 10 17 2.14% 129 0.42% 11 – 20 108 13.57% 1818 5.93% 21 -30 189 23.74% 4903 15.99% 31 – 40 180 22.61% 6339 20.67% 41-50 143 17.96% 6469 21.09% 51-60 82 10.30% 4499 14.67% 61-70 34 4.27% 2205 7.19% 71-80 19 2.39% 1430 4.66% 81 ≥ 24 3.02% 2875 9.37% Total 796 100% 30667 100%

Table 8 shows the number of reference in the articles. It is observed from the table that 189 articles used reference in the range of 21 – 30; 180 articles in the range of 31- 40 and 108 articles in the range of 11 – 20. Twenty-four articles had more than 81 references. Table-9 Ranking of Most Productive Author Number of Sl. No. Name of the Author Author Affiliation Rank Contribution 1 W. Baumjohann Space Research Institute, Austrian 22 1 199 | P a g e Christo Somi, Deepa John and Yamuna P.B - A Bibliometric Analysis of Annales Geophysicae (2011-2015): An International Online Journal International Journal of Information Movement Vol.2 Issue XI (March 2018) IFSIJ Impact Factor : 1.575 Website: www.ijim.in ISSN: 2456-0553 (online) Pages 194-202

Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria. The Research Institute in Astrophysics 2 I. Dandouras and Planetology (IRAP), Toulouse, 20 2 France. Helmholtz Centre Potsdam-GFZ, German 3 H. Lühr Research Center for Geosciences, 18 3 Potsdam, Germany Technical University of Braunschweig, 4 K. H. Glassmeier 16 4 Germany. Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics 5 M. Rapp at the Rostock University, 16 4 K¨uhlungsborn, Germany Swedish Institute of Space Physics, 6 H. Nilsson 15 5 Kiruna, Sweden. University of California, (UCLA), Los 7 V. Angelopoulos 14 6 Angeles, California, USA 8 Y. H. Zhang Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 14 6 Mullard Space Science Laboratory, 9 A. N. Fazakerley 13 7 University College London, Dorking, UK Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, 10 A. V. Artemyev 13 7 Russia Department of Geophysics and 11 R. A. Treumann Environmental Sciences, Munich 13 7 University, Munich, Germany Space Research Institute, Austrian 12 R. Nakamura 13 7 Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria Swedish Institute of Space Physics, 13 S. Kirkwood 13 7 Kiruna, Sweden 14 M. A. Balikhin University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 11 8 The table 9 shows the most productive authors who have contributed more than 10 articles during the period of study. A total number of 3626 authors contributed to 796 articles published in Annales Geophysicae during 2011- 2015. Based on the complete counting method it was to found that 1300 authors produced 1 article each and their contribution to the total output is 36% of the total output.It is further analyzed that W. Baumjohann, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria has secured the first rank who contributed highest number of articles i.e., 22 collaborate with others. The second rank is won by I. Dandourasfor contributing 20 articles collaborate with others and the 3rd rank is given to H. Lührwho produced 18 articles collaborate with others. Thus 796 articles were written by 2,005 authors alone and collaborate with others. Table -10 Subjectwise Distribution of Articles

Sl. No. Subject No. of Articles Percentage Rank Meteorology and atmospheric 1 204 25.63% 1 dynamics 2 Ionospheric Physics 198 24.87% 2 3 Magnetospheric physics 196 24.62% 3 4 Space plasma physics 77 9.67% 4 5 Planetary Science 49 6.16% 5 6 Instrumentation and Technology 33 4.15% 6 7 Solar Physics 23 2.89% 7 Geomagnetism and 8 16 2.01% 8 Paleomagnetism Total 796 100%

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Table 10 reveals the subject wise distribution of articles in Annales Geophysicae from 2011 to 2015. Eight subject categories have been identified in the journal. Varieties of topics are appeared in the journal. Certain topics appear to have received a great deal of attention from researchers, while other has been discussed to a lesser degree, within journal. The four most common topics addressed in this journal are Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics 204 (25.63%), Ionosphere Physics 198 (24.87%), Magnetospheric physics 196 (24.62%) and Space plasma physics 77 (9.67%). Table- 11 Highly Prolific Organisations

Sl. No Name of the Organisation Articles Contributors Rank Percentage Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy 1 49 39 1 6.16% of Sciences, Graz, Austria Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, 2 44 45 2 5.53% Finland 3 University of California, Los Angeles, USA 39 30 3 4.90% Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, 4 38 29 4 4.77% Sweden NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, 5 36 38 5 4.52% Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 6 Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 33 58 6 4.15% Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, 7 32 26 7 4.02% Russia 8 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 30 21 8 3.77% Max-Planck Institute for Solar System 9 28 21 9 3.52% Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany GFZ German Research Centre for 10 Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 26 22 10 3.27% Germany 11 University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 24 20 11 3.02% Mullard Space Science Laboratory, 12 23 13 12 2.89% University College London, Dorking, UK State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, 13 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 22 37 13 2.76% China Imperial College London, South Kensington, 14 20 16 14 2.51% London, U.K

Table 11 shows highly prolific organisation contributing more than or equal to 20 articles. Table Enumerated data shows that 2,005 contributors of Annales Geophysicae were affiliated to 1208 institutions from 68 countries. It is observed from the table that Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria has appeared on the top, followed by Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA etc. It also evident from the table that top 10 institutions have contributed about (45%) of the total contribution during the study period.

Table-12 Geographical Distribution of Contributors during the Period Of Study

No. of Articles Sl. No. Name of Countries Along with other Percentage Alone Total countries 1 U S A 60 209 269 33.79% 2 Germany 37 100 137 17.21% 3 UK 16 112 128 16.08% 4 China 52 67 119 14.95% 5 France 15 94 109 13.69% 6 Russia 17 66 83 10.43%

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7 India 56 23 79 9.92% 8 Japan 18 57 75 9.42% 9 Taiwan 56 13 69 8.67% 10 Sweden 13 53 66 8.29% Table 12 shows the geographical diffusion of contributing authors from top 10 countries of Annales Geophysicae during the study period. Country names of the contributors have been identified from the corresponding affiliations as found in respective publications of the journal. Tabulated data shows that contributors from 68 countries across the globe were associated in producing 796 communications of Annales Geophysicae. Out of which America contributed most, followed by Germany and UK. A rank list of contributing countries has been prepared on the basis of affiliations of the contributions from various countries, applying normal counting method. 7.0 Conclusion The findings of the study are as follows: 1. The journal publishes on an average 66 articles per year and 13 articles per issue. 2. It is found that most number of articles published in Annales Geophysicae in the length of 1-10 pages which accounts 393 i.e., 49.37%. 3. It was found that the number of references per article is inconsistent and varied between 35 to 40. It was highest (40) in the years 2014, 2012 and 2015. The average number of references per article was 38.53%. The range of citation used by majority of authors is 21-30 with frequency 189 contribute 4903 reference to the total citation and it is followed by the range 31-40 with frequency 180 contribute 6339 citations. 4. Out of 796 communications about 92% were collaborated by multiple authors ranging from 2 to 22 co- authors and rest were non-collaborative. The degree of collaboration (DC) was estimated to 0.92 of which more than four authored contributions were significant. 5. W. Baumjohann, „Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria‟ has contributed highest number of articles i.e., 22 collaborate with others and secured first place in the list of most prolific authors 6. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria contributed highest number of articles i.e. 49 contributing (6.16%) to the total 796 articles. 7. USA produced highest portion of authors (33.79%) affiliating 269 occurrences, followed by Germany 137 (17.21%), UK 128 (16.08%), China 119 (14.95%), France 109 (13.69%) etc. 8. The subject wise distribution of articles reveals that majority of article published in the field of „Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics‟ having 204 articles (25.63%) and lowest number of articles categorized under „Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism‟ having 16 articles (2.01%). 8.0 References 1. Mukherjee, Bhaskar, and Priyanka Vishwakarma. “LIS journals in India: Current status and some improved measures.” Annals of Library and Information Studies 61,no.3 (2014): 241. 2. Punjar, Shamprasad M.” Open access journals in library and information science: a study”. Annals of Library and Information Studies 61,no.3 (2014): 199. 3. Maharana, Rabindra K. “Malaria research in India during 2003-2012: a bibliometric analysis". Collection Building 33,no.2 (2014): 53 -59. 4. Tsay, Ming-yueh. “Knowledge input for the domain of information science: A bibliometric and citation analysis study”. Aslib Proceedings 65,no.2 (2013):203-220. 5. Zhu, Qiaoli et al. “Global ontology research progress: a bibliometric analysis". Aslib Journal of Information Management 67,no.1 (2015): 27 – 54. 6. Fiala, Dalibor, and Peter Willett. “Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study.".Aslib Journal of Information Management 67,no.5 (2015):526 – 541.

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