Authorship Pattern, Degree of Collaboration and Research Publication Trend among Scientists/Researchers of CSIR-IMTECH, India 1991–2010: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), India, is the youngest and one of the productive research laboratories in India. It plays an important role in research in the fields of microbiology and biotechnology in India. Due to the importance of IMTECH, we decided to study its academic scientific output in the Web of Science during the years 1991–2010. This paper is an informetric analysis of 902 papers published by the scientists and researchers at the CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, from 1991 to 2010, downloaded from the institute's website as well from science citation index-extended version (Web of Science) of the Thomson Scientific. There is no doubt that collaboration is a common phenomenon in research. This paper examined the collaborative strength and patterns of authorship among the CSIR-IMTECH scientists/researchers, covering a period of 20 years. The results of the data were analysed based on the number of articles published per year, pattern of authorship and the collaborative degree and strength of authors. The study shows that majority of the scientists preferred to publish research papers in joint authorship. Out of 902 articles, 753 (83.48%) were joint works, while only 149 (16.51%) were single-author works. The degree of author's collaboration was also calculated to be 0.83, while the mean numbers of single-author and joint authored articles were 7.45 and 37.65, respectively.