Authorship Pattern and Collaboration Coefficient of the Researchers World: Journal of Arts, Science and Commerce (RW-JASC) During 2010–2017

Abstract

The present paper deals with an evaluation of authorship and collaboration pattern of the ‘Researchers World: Journal of Arts, Science and Commerce (RW-JASC)’ during the period (2010-2017) in which a total 662 research papers were published in the particular journal. The highest number of articles 108 (16.31%) were published in the year 2017. The highest 2.24 collaboration index was recorded in the year 2010 and the overall average of collaboration index was 1.92. The highest CC and MCC was 0.43 and 0.45 respectively recorded in the year 2010.  Out of 662 articles, the maximum 386 publications were co-authorship index while 276 publications were single author index.  The highest Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling time (Dt.) was recorded 1.75 in the year 2011 and 4.08 in 2017 respectively.