A Bibliometric Analysis of Annales Geophysicae (2011-2015): an International Online Journal
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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 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 open access 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 Web of Science 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. 195 | 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 5.0 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