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Article Name :
CITATION ANALYSIS OF PH.D. THESES IN ECONOMICS SUBMITTED TO SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
Author Name :
K. V. Padmaja , K. Surendra Babu
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-348
Article URL :
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Abstract :
This paper presents citation analysis of Ph. D theses submitted in the discipline of economics of the Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during 1970-2010. The study is based on the 19654 citations cited in 123 Ph. D theses of economics. The study presents the analysis of several parameters like bibliographic form, authorship pattern, year wise distribution of theses, ranking of core journals and books, year wise distribution of cited documents. The study finds that books/online books form is the most preferred sources of information used by the researcher in the field of economics accounting for 49.57%, and most of the field of the citations (65.14%) are contributed by single author, USA (36.73%) is the largest producer of literature in the field of economics compared to other countries and most dominant language was English 95.82%.
Keywords :
  • citation analysis
  • bibliometrics
  • ph.d. theses in economics
  • sri venkateswara university