APPLICATION OF LOTKA'S LAW PRICE'S SQUARE ROOT AND PARETO PRINCIPLE ON RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OF MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY - A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

This study analyzes the application of lotka's law, Price's square root law, Pareto principle and collaborative measures on Manonmaniam Sundaranar University research publications. The data retrieved and downloaded from Web of Science database from the year 1992 to 2020. The findings of th...

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Published in:Library philosophy and practice 2020-12, p.1-15
Main Authors: Thirumagal, A, Manthiramoorthi, M, Thamaraiselvi, M, Mani, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Author productivity
Bibliometrics
Bradford's Law of Scatter
Co authorship
Collaboration
Datasets
Library and information science
Lotka's Law
Pareto optimum
Performance evaluation
Scientometrics
Software
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Summary:This study analyzes the application of lotka's law, Price's square root law, Pareto principle and collaborative measures on Manonmaniam Sundaranar University research publications. The data retrieved and downloaded from Web of Science database from the year 1992 to 2020. The findings of the study revealed that the highest number of publications is in the year 2018 with 200 records. Multi authored contributed 97.80% of research publications whereas single authored contributed only 2.20% of total contribution. Padiyan DP is the most prolific author with 94 records during the study period. Mohanraj K and Sivakumar G is collaborated highest number of research publications with 56 records in the dataset. The highest number of publications collaborated between India and USA with 89 records. Collaborative measures such as degree of collaboration (0.99), collaborative index (9.26%), collaborative coefficient (0.67) and modified collaborative coefficient (0.66) for the study period. The study also applied statistical tool such as Kolmolgorov-Smirnov goodness of fit test to verify Lotka's law.
ISSN:1522-0222