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Author Productivity And The Application Of Lotka's Law In The Field Of Horticulture, Santosh Kumar Tunga Dec 2020

Author Productivity And The Application Of Lotka's Law In The Field Of Horticulture, Santosh Kumar Tunga

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Citation study of 10,845 citations appended to 80 doctoral dissertations in the field of horticulture awarded by Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur and Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV), Cooch Bihar, West Bengal has been carried out to determine the authorship pattern and productivity to cited articles during 1991-2010. The study revealed that researchers are mainly used journal articles 8437 (77.796%). Generally Loka’s law describes the frequency of publications by authors in a given subject/ discipline. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the applicability of the Lotka’s law to the publications of horticulture scientists in BCKV …