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| A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF CITATIONS IN Ph.D THESES IN EDUCATION |
| Author Name : | |
| S. Malla Reddy , V. Pulla Reddy |
| Publisher : | |
| Ashok Yakkaldevi |
| Article Series No. : | |
| ISRJ-529 |
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| Abstract : | |
| Analysis of 42,872 citations cited in 215 theses accepted by Sri Venkateswara University and Andhra University for the award of Ph.D degree in Education reveals that journals were the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of Education accounting for 39.26% of total citations, followed by books with 23.62% of total citations. The journal ‘Dissertation Abstracts International’ occupied first place for being cited more number of times accounting for 14.54% of total journal citations. The book entitled ‘Research in Education’ secured the first rank for being cited more number of times accounting for 2.49% of the total book citations. The publisher ‘Mc Graw-Hill’ has secured the first rank among the publishers for being cited its books more number of times accounting for 28.4% of the total book citations. Authorship pattern for cited documents shows that the majority of citations (52.46%) were contributed by single authors. The average number of authors per citation and the degree of collaboration in Education is 1.43 and 0.48 respectively. The research scholars in Education are mostly (85.65%) using the literature published in English language. They are citing the majority documents (52.27%) from their subject literature itself. USA is contributing to 59.04% of cited literature by the research scholars in Education. |
| Keywords : | |
- bibliometric study
- citation analysis
- authorship pattern
- degree of collaboration
- ranking of journals
- ranking of books
- ranking of publishers
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