A STUDY ON THE SCATTER OF CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIAN SCIENTISTS IN INDIAN AND FOREIGN PERIODICALS: 1. MATHEMATICS K M PETER T S RAJAGOPALAN Insdoc, Delhi- 12 Studie. the extent of scatter of mathematical con- as 206 papers are entirely by Indian authors, tribution. of Indian authors in Indian and Foreign while 63 are by foreign authors and 8 jointly periodical.. Analysee for thie purpo.e,· the Mathemati- contributed by Indian and foreign authors. cal ".vie,.,. for the year 1965 and report. the findings Table 1 gives also periodical-wise breakdown with r•• ltrd to contribution. of Indian andforeign authors of contributions of Indian and foreign authors in in Indian periodical. and contributions of Indi~ auth~rs •inlly and jointly ,.,ith foreign authors tn foretJD Indian periodicals . periodical •. In Table 2, data about the contributions of Indian authors alone and jointly with foreign authors in 141 foreign periodicals is given. The Mathematical Reviews for 1965 has reported The practice of Indian scientists publish- 452 contributions during the years 1961 to 1965, ing their contributions in foreign periodicals comprising of 382 by Indian authors and 70 has been engagtng the attention of our science jointly with foreign authors. They have been administrators for quite some time now. Several contributed by 323 Indian authors and 66 foreign causes are attributed to this practice. Whether authors. It has not been possible to verify it is a healthy trend or not, and whether it readily whether these contributions relate to should be discouraged from the point of view of work done in India or elsewhere because, firstly encouraging our own scientific periodicals are the Mathematical Reviews does not give the matters deserving consideration. The extent address of authors and secondly our efforts to of scatter of contributions of Indian scientists find out the details from the original sources in Indian and foreign periodicals is proposed themselves have not been fruitful as not all to be studied subject-wise. The first in the periodicals follow the practice of furnishing the series reported here, relates to the scatter of addresses of institutions where the work is mathematical literature by Indian authors pub- carried out. lished in Indian and foreign periodicals. In an earlier study on the RReporting of The Mathematical Reviews is the most Indian Mathematical Literature in the Mathe- comprehensive world abstracting service in the matical Reviews and the Bulletin Signaket ique s field of mathematics. The issues of 1965 (1) it has been reported that there are 12 Indian volume of the Mathematical Reviews have been periodicals exclusively devoted to Mathematics. scanned to locate contributions of Indian authors. In addition, about 25 periodicals carry a good It has become necessary to scan the volume, number of articles of mathematics interest. entry by entry as author index could not be According to the same source, the number of completely relied upon for locating contributions Indian periodical articles in Mathematics includ- of Indian authors. It is because Christian and ing Mechanics and Astronomy as reported in the Muslim names of Indian authors could not be Bibliography of Scientific Publications of South easily distinguished from others. This diffi- and South East Asia during the years 1960 to 1964 culty could not be, however, overcome com- is as follows: pletely as the Mathematical Reviews fails to mention the addresses of authors. The volume 1·960 202 of the Mathematical Reviews for 1965 has 1961 299 reported 277 contributions (Table 1) published 1962 322 from 24 Indian periodicals during the year s 1961 1963 333 to 1965. They have been contributed by 195 1964 278 Indian authors and 66 foreign authors. As many 142 Ann Lib Sci Doc SCATTER OF CONTRIBUTIONSIN MATHEMATICS The Mathematical Reviews for the year 1965 butions in foreign periodicals. However. the has reported 277 contributions which have been high proportion of contributions of Indian authors published in Indian periodicals and 452 contri- in foreign periodicals indicates that research butions of Indian authors in foreign periodicals. efforts in Mathematics in India have been receiv- As the present study is based on a single volume ing universal recognition. of the Mathematical Reviews. it has not been possible to find out whether there has been any BIBLIOGRAPHY increasing tendency on the part of the Indian authors to publish their contributions in foreign 1. Rajagopalan (T S), Sen (B K). Gogia (K L) periodicals. Even though the figures indicate a and Gera (J C): Reporting of Indian higher proportion of contributions of Indian Mathematics Literature in the Mathe- authors in foreign periodicals. it may be said matical Reviews and the Bulletin . that the Indian Mathematical periodicals are of a Signaletique (Ann Lib Sci Doc 1965. standard comparable to that of foreign periodicals 12. 137-50). and for that matter the Indian authors may have no particular preference to publish their contri- Table 1 Mathematical Literature Published in Indian Periodicals as Reported in the Mathematical Reviews 1965 Sr. Name of the Periodical Year of the Papers Reported in Authors contributing No. the Mathematical Reviews 1965 the Papers 1961 and 1962 1963 1964 1965 Total Indian Foreign Indian Before and Foreign 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society 12 12 16 40 23 15 2 2 Bulletin. Calcutta Statistical Association 4 4 4 3 Ganita 7 9 1 17 16 4 Indian Journal of Mathematics 2 7 9 8 5 Journal of the Annamalai University - Part B Sciences 6 Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 2 3 2 7 Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society 7 2 11 7 3 8. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics 6 3 9 7 9. Journal of the Indian Statistical Association 19 13 32 25 6 10. Journal of the Madras University - Section B 3 3 6 6 11. Journal of Science and Engineering Research 5 6 11 11 12. Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University 6 8 14 14 13. Journal of Technology I 1 14. Madhya Bharati - Part A 1 1 15. Mathematics Student 12 14 11 2 Vol 13 No 3 Sept 1966 143 PETER 8. RAJAGOPALAN (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) 16. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Section A 6 2 9 8 17. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of India - Section A 18. Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences India, Part A 16 6 22 21 19. Proceedings of the Rajasthan Academy of Sciences 2 3 3 20. Research Bulletin of the Punjab University - Sciences II 1 21. Sankhya - Series A 21 34 9 65 33 30 2 22. Sankhya - Series B II 1 23. Vijnana Parishad Anusandhan Patrika 2 2 Total 16 54 135 70 2 277 206 63 8 Table 2 Mathematical Literature Published by Indian Authors in Foreign Periodicals as Reported in the Mathematical Reviews 1965 Sr. Name of the Periodical Year of the Papers Reported in Indian Contributions No. the Mathematical Reviews 1965 Authors Jointly with 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 Total Foreign and Authors Before (I) (~ ( 3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) 1 Acta Arithmetica, Warszawa 2 2 2 2 Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Budapest 2 2 2 3 Acta Physica Polonica, Warszawa 2 2 2 4 Acta Scientiarum Mathe- maticarum, Szeged 1 5 AlIA Journal, Easton, Pa 2 6 American Journal of Mathematics, Baltimore 2 2 7 American Mathematical Monthly, Springfield 4 2 7 6 8 Annales de 11 lnstitut Fourier, Paris 9 Annales Polonici Mathematici, Warszawa 2 3 3 144 Ann Lib Sci Doc SCATTER OF CONTRIBUTIONSIN MATHEMATICS (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) 10 Annales de la Societie Scienti- fique de Bruscelles, Louvain 3 3 3 11 Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Milano 4 4 4 12 Annali delIa Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 13 Annals of the Institute of Sta- tistical Mathematics, Tokyo 7 2 11 10 14 Annals of Mathematical Statistics Ann Arbor 14 9 23 19 4 15 Annals of Mathematics, Princeton 1 2 2 16 Annals of Physics, Baltimore 1 2 2 17 Archiv der Mathematik, Karlsruke 2 2 2 18 Archiwum Mechaniki Sloso- waniej , Warszawa 5 6 6 19 Atti dell a Accademia delIa Seienze, Torino 20 Atti della' Accademia dell a Scienze dell 'Instituto di Bologna Rendiconti. Classe di Scienze Fisiche 21 Bell System Technical Journal, New York 1 1 22 Biom.etric s , Washington 1 1 1 23 Biometrika, Cambridge 7 8 8 24 Boletin de Sociedade de Matematica de Sao Paulo 25 Bollettino dell' Unione Mate- matica Italiana, Bologna 2 2 2 26 Bulletin de l' Academie Polonaise des Sciences Classe ill, Warszawa 27 Bulletin de l' Academie Sarbe des Sciences, Classe des Sciences, Mathematiques et Naturelles, Beograd 28 Bulletin of the American Mathe- matical Society, Lancaster 3 4 4 29 CORS (The Canadian Operation Research Society) Journal Toronto, Ontario 2 2 30 Compte Rendu Hebdomalaire des Seances de l' Academie des Sciences, Paris 3 6 10 8 2 31 Canadian Journal of Mathe- matics, Toronto 2 2 4 3 32 Canadian Journal of Physics, Ottawa 2 2 33 Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, Martreal 3 3 3 34 Collectanea Mathematica Barcelono 2 2 35 Colloquiun Mathematicum Worclaw Vol 13 No 3 Sept 1966 145 PETER &. 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