PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VI)/278-287 /42

AUTHOR :Saroj Bala and Dr. Joginder Singh

TITLE: CITATION ANALYSIS OF PHD THESES IN AGRONOMY SUBMITTED AT CCSHAU AND PAU DURING 2010-2014: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

ABSTRACT:: The study covers a total 2576 citations appended to the 14 doctoral theses in the field of Agronomy  awarded by CCSHAU, Hisar and PAU, Ludhiana during the year 2010-2014 to find out the comparison in terms of bibliographic forms of the cited documents, authorship pattern, country-wise, year-wise distribution of citations and its obsolescence value. Ranking of the cited journals was also carried out with the application of Bradford’s law of scattering. Analysis and interpretation was carried out with the help of tables and graphs. The findings reveals that highest number of citations are from journals i.e. (69.7%) in CCSHAU and (77.6%) in PAU, for their source of information followed by conference/seminar proceedings. The authorship pattern highlights that the maximum number of citations are (29.1%) in CCSHAU and (32.2%) in PAU from the two-authors, followed by three-authored articles in Agronomy. The country-wise scattering of citations reveals that 424(39.8%) and 416(50.9%) are from India in both the universities, followed by Netherlands in CCSHAU and USA in PAU. Indian Journal of Weed Science occupies the first rank in both the universities with 99(9.3%) and 101(12.3%) which is maximum in PAU as compared to CCSHAU. The study will be helpful for the librarians in the process of collection development and to weed out unused documents from the libraries to save costly stocking space and reduce maintenance cost. As due to the increasing cost of the journals and the shrinking library budgets, the librarians must make careful selections based on the qualities and standards of journals.

KEYWORDS:Bibliometrics, Citation analysis, Bradford’s law,  Agronomy ,  CCSHAU, PAU

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