COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and information Management : A bibliometric study

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of 267 papers published in 13 volumes (2007-2019) in COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management (CJSIM). The analysis examines the chronological distribution of output and the geographical distribution of contributions, identified prolific institutions and prolific authors and examined their impact in terms of Citation per Paper (CPP) and Papers not Cited (PnC). Besides these, the study also examined the pattern of citations, identified highly cited papers, pattern of domestic and international collaboration. Findings of the study indicate that the growth of articles is inconsistent with highest number of papers published in the year 2014 and lowest in the year 2007. The output was scattered among 41 countries, of which 12 prolific countries contributed 80.8 % of the total output. Among the prolific 12 countries India ranked first with 31.8% of papers. Among the institutions, Dalian University of Technology (China) topped the list. Pattern of domestic and international collaboration indicates that 79 papers were published in domestic collaboration and 48 papers in international collaboration. Among all countries, India had the highest share of domestically collaborative papers and China had the highest number of internationally collaborative papers.