Cited and citing pattern of Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics: An evaluation

Authors

Ajay Kumar Chaubey Mr., Department of Libaray and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, VaranasiFollow

Date of this Version

Spring 2019

Document Type

Article

Citation

1. Chang, Y. W. (2013). A comparison of citation contexts between natural sciences and social sciences and humanities. Scientometrics, 96(2), 535-553.
2. About Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved from : http://insa.nic.in/UI/journaldetails.aspx?AID=Mg (accessed on 25 October 2018)
3. Lipetz, B. A. (1965). Improvement of the selectivity of citation indexes to science literature through inclusion of citation relationship indicators. American documentation, 16(2), 81-90.
4. Garfield, E. (1980). Citation measures of the influence of Robert K. Merton. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 39(1 Series II), 61-74.
5. Hargens, L. L. (2000). Using the literature: Reference networks, reference contexts, and the social structure of scholarship. American sociological review, 846-865.
6. Mukherjee, B. (2009). The hyperlinking pattern of open-access journals in library and information science: A cited citing reference study. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 113-125.
7. Narang, A. (2004). Indian journal of pure & applied mathematics: a bibliometric study. Annals of Library and Information Studies, 51(1), 28-38
8. Shokeen, A., & Kaushik, S. K. (2004). Indian Journal of Plant Physiology: a citation analysis. 51(3) 104-107.
9. Chaubey, A. K., & Mukherjee, B. (2018). Cited and Citing Pattern of Open Access Journals: A Pilot Study with Selected Indian Journals of Physics-Chemistry-Mathematics. SRELS Journal of Information Management, 55(1), 13-19.
10. Glänzel, W., & Schoepflin, U. (1999). A bibliometric study of reference literature in the sciences and social sciences1. Information processing & management, 35(1), 31-44.
11. Cole, S. (1983). The hierarchy of the sciences?. American Journal of Sociology, 89(1), 111-139.

Abstract

This paper examines the cited and citing pattern of Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM) in terms of source, authorship, subject diversity, accessibility, citation-age, quantity & citing-life. This study is based on the data collected from 5 Volumes, consisting of 30 issues, carrying 171 articles, citing 2754 references from 575 citing sources of IJPAM published from 2009 to 2013. Whereas for collecting cited references, every published article from the official website of the journal namely Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was downloaded, for citing references, Google Scholar and Scopus both were explored to recognize the maximum number of citing sources during October 2017.The study revealed that journal articles are the most cited references, whereas citing references are mostly from the journals of foreign origin. Majority of cited articles are available in non-open access form, though the citations came from both, open and non-open journals. Joint authorship was found to be predominant, in both cited-citing references.