Lotka’s Law and Pattern of Author Productivity in the Field of Brain Concussion Research: A Scientometric Analysis

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S.Roselin JahinaFollow
Dr. M.Sadik Batcha, Annamalai University
Muneer Ahmad, Annamalai UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

Spring 4-2020

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Lotka's Law applied to Brain Concussion Research

Abstract

The present study deals a scientometric analysis of 8486 bibliometric publications retrieved from the Web of Science database during the period 2008 to 2017. Data is collected and analyzed using Bibexcel software. The study focuses on various aspect of the quantitative research such as growth of papers (year wise), Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Co-authorship Index (CAI), Collaborative Co-efficient (CC), Modified Collaborative Co-Efficient (MCC), Lotka’s Exponent value, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (K-S Test).