A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Journal ‘Asian Journal of Management, 2010 – 2017’

 

Dr. Harish Kumar Sahu

Sr. Assistant Professor, S.O.S. in Library and Information Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University,

Raipur (C.G.) – 492010, India

 

ABSTRACT:

In this study, an attempt has been made to investigate the ‘Asian Journal of Management, the period of 2010 to 2017’. This study analysis the year and volume-wise distribution of articles, year-wise references, and country-wise distribution of articles, forms of cited documents, authorship patterns of research contributions, single and multi authors of research contributions. The study has found that the contributions of articles to Asian Journal of Management were not only from in India but also from foreign countries. For the analysis of the study 08 volumes containing 28 issues have been taken up. It is found that 387 papers were published during the period of study. The maximum number of articles 87 (22.48%) articles was published in 2014. The average degree of collaboration is 0.563.

 

 

 

1. INTRODUCTION:

‘Asian Journal of Management’ is an international, peer-reviewed journal, devoted to managerial sciences, published by A and V Publications, Raipur-Chhattisgarh. It is a quarterly journal published since 2010 as a published quarterly every year in last week of March, June, September and December. This study highlights the various article of scholarly content published by this journal during 2010-2017.

 

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE:

Previously several studies by different authors have been analyzing the contribution of different Library and Information Science journals.

 

“Rajendran (2005) analyzed the study mostly the global output of ‘Fiber Optics’ research.

 

Articles covered in the Ei-Tech index database covering the period 1999-2003 have been considered for the study.”[1].

 

“Jena (2006) studied bibliometric analysis of the journal ‘Indian journal of fiber and textile research’ for the period 1996-2004 has been carried out.”[2].

 

“Thanuskodi (2011) study find out a bibliometric analysis of the journal titled “Library Herald” for the period 2006 to 2010. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise distribution of articles, average number of references per articles, forms of documents cited, year wise distribution of cited journals etc. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. The result showed that out of 138 articles single author contributed 72 (52.17%) articles while the rest 66(47 .83%) articles were contributed by joint authors. Study reveals that most of the contributions are from India with 89.85 % and the rest 10.15 % only from foreign sources.”[3].

 

“Hussain (2011) had done a study of Points the bibliometric analysis of the IFLA Journal for the period of 2006-2010. The study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of the IFLA Journal, such as its distribution of articles by year, authorship patterns, distribution of contributions by institutions, subject distributions, citation patterns, length of article, rank of cited authors, and geographical distribution of authors.” [4].

 

“Nagarkar (2015) results of a study are to analysis research productivity of life sciences faculty members at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Maharashtra, India. The research is conducted with the intention to know the research productivity over 15 years (1999-2013), the citations received, collaborations, and authorship patterns. Web of Science (WoS) database was used for the bibliographic and citation data.” [5].

 

3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY:

The Scope of the present study is Asian Journal of Management. It  published Original articles in the fields of managerial sciences. The study cover 28 issues from Vol. 8 during the years 2010 to 2017.

 

4. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY:

This bibliometrics is the application of statistical and mathematical methods. A total of 8 volumes and 28 issues were selected for the study. It is based on Statistical and mathematical analysis with differentt aspect of books and articles such as country-wise distribution, cited documents, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration. etc. Data have been also calculated and represented in varies Tables and Graph.

 

5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

The objective of this study are:

·        To make an analysis of articles published in Asian Journal of Management from 2010 to 2017.

·        To identify the volume and issue wise Distribution of articles.

·        To find out the authorship productivity.

·        To find out  the year wise distribution of references.

·        To study the which types of cited documents.

·        To find out the country-wise distribution of research contributions.

·        To study the Degree of Collabration.

 

6. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION:

Table 1 Show that year wise distribution of articles in the 2010 to 2017. The maximum 87 (22.48%) articles Published in the year 2014. The minimum 16(4.13%) articles Published in the year 2010. The Percentages range varies from 4.13 % to 22.48 %.

 

Table 1: Year and Volume-wise distribution of articles

S. No.	Year	Vol. and Issues		Articles	%
1	2010	1	2	16	4.13
2	2011	2	4	40	10.33
3	2012	3	4	41	10.59
4	2013	4	4	50	12.91
5	2014	5	4	87	22.48
6	2015	6	4	51	13.17
7	2016	7	4	45	11.62
8	2017	8	2	57	14.72
Total		8	28	387	100

 

 

Table 2 Reveals that maximum number of the references 1285 (21.64%) produced in 2014, followed by 1209 (20.36%) references in 2017, 954 (16.07%) references in 2016, 794 (13.37%) references in 2015, 573 (9.65%) references in 2011, 523 (8.81%) references in 2012, 380 (6.40%) references in 2013 and 218 (3.67%) references in 2010.

 

Table 2:  Year wise references

Year	Vol. and Issues		References	%
2010	1	2	218	3.67
2011	2	4	573	9.65
2012	3	4	523	8.81
2013	4	4	380	6.40
2014	5	4	1285	21.64
2015	6	4	794	13.37
2016	7	4	954	16.07
2017	8	2	1209	20.36
Total	8 Vol. 28 Issues		5936	100

 

 

Table 3 Indicates the types of publication articles, among the total number of citations, which is 5936, journal have received 4158 citations (70.04%), books 731 citations (12.31%), www 652 citations (10.98%), Miscellaneous 208 citations (3.50%) Report 111 citations (1.86%), News Papers 35 citations (0.58%), Conference/seminar proceedings/workshop 26 citations (0.43%),  and Thesis/ Dissertation 14 citations (0.25).

 

Table 3: Forms of Cited Documents

Rank	Cited Documents	Year								Total	%
		2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1	Books	58	154	98	52	127	128	45	69	731	12.31
2	Journals	100	290	283	240	898	524	794	1029	4158	70.04
3	Report	04	22	09	16	42	08	07	03	111	1.86
4	Conference/seminar proceedings/workshop	07	02	09	01	01	02	02	02	26	0.43
5	News Papers	15	03	05	04	02	01	05	-	35	0.58
6	Thesis/ Dissertation	01	02	02	-	02	01	04	03	15	0.25
7	WWW	28	58	85	48	155	89	86	103	652	10.98
8	Miscellaneous	05	42	32	19	58	41	11	-	208	3.50
Total		218	573	523	380	1285	794	954	1209	5936	100

 

Table 4 Indicates that country-wise research contributions in volume 1-8 of source journal. Out of 387 research article contributions the highest 378 (97.67%) has been contributed by Indian authors, followed by Iran with 06 (1.55%) contributions, Malaysia with 02 (0.51%) contributions, and New Zealand with 01 (0.25%) research contributions.

 

Table 4: Country-wise distribution of articles

S. No.	Name of countries	Distribution of research contributions	%
1	India	378	97.67
2	Iran	06	1.55
3	Malaysia	02	0.51
4	New Zealand	01	0.25
Total		387	100

 

 

 

Table 5 Reveals the contributions of authorship patterns of Asian Journal of Management, among the 387 articles contributed, 174 (44.96%) are two authors, 169 (43.66%) are single authors, 37 (9.56%) are three authors, 05 (1.29%) are four authors and 02 (0.51%) are six authors.

 

Table 5: Authorship Patterns of research contributions

No. of Author	Year								Total	%
	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Single	9	21	22	15	35	22	15	30	169	43.66
Two	6	15	15	25	42	24	26	21	174	44.96
Three	-	04	04	06	10	04	04	05	37	9.56
Four	-	-	-	04	-	01	-	-	05	1.29
Five	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Six	01	-	-	-	-	-	-	01	02	0.51
Total	16	40	41	50	87	51	45	57	387	100

 

 

Table 6: Single Author and Multi Authors of Contributions

S. No.	Year	Single Author (Ns)		Multi Author (Nm)		Total
		No. of Articles	%	No. of Articles	%
1	2010	09	5.32	07	3.21	16
2	2011	21	12.42	19	8.71	40
3	2012	22	13.01	19	8.71	41
4	2013	15	8.87	35	16.05	50
5	2014	35	20.71	52	23.85	87
6	2015	22	13.01	29	13.30	51
7	2016	15	8.87	30	13.76	45
8	2017	30	17.75	27	12.38	57
Total		169 (Ns)	100	218 (Nm)	100	387

 

Table 6 Indicates the Single and Multi Author of Contributions. Authored papers are in Asian Journal of Management from 2010 to 2017. The contributions in the single author articles are 169 (43.66%) and 218 (56.33%) are multiple author articles, so highest contributions are multiple author articles.

 

Table 7: Degree of Collaboration

S. No.	Year	Degree of Collaboration
1	2010	0.43
2	2011	0.47
3	2012	0.46
4	2013	0.7
5	2014	0.59
6	2015	0.56
7	2016	0.66
8	2017	0.47

 

 

Degree of Collaboration among authors in Asian Journal of Management from 2010 to 2017 is presented in table 7. Calculate in order to the degree of collaboration (DC) among the authors in Asian Journal of Management journal, the formula given by “K. Subramanyam (1983) is used, the formula is as follows –

DC = Degree of Collaboration

Nm = Number of multi-authored Contributions

Ns = Number of single-authored Contributions

The value of DC = (Nm)/(Nm+Ns)”[6].

In the present study, here – Nm = 218; Ns = 169.

218/218+169 so that

218/387 = 0.563

 

Table 7 shows the degree of collaboration is high, i.e. 218 (0.563%) in terms of collective or multi-authored Collaboration and the individual or single-authored contributions is less towards the subject during the study period.

 

CONCLUSION:

This journal Asian Journal of Management has a history of eight years. In this period of time published 387 articles from 2010-2017. The journal has maximum 87 (22.48%) articles published in the year 2014 and minimum 16(4.13%) articles published in the year 2010, table 2 reveals that maximum number of the references 1285 (21.64%) produced in 2014, table 3 indicates the types or forms of publication articles, among the total number of citations, which is 5936, journal have received 4158 citations (70.04%), table 4 shows the country-wise research contributions in volume 1-8 of source journal. Out of 387 research article contributions the highest 378 (97.67%) has been contributed by Indian authors, table 5 shows the contributions of authorship patterns of Asian Journal of Management journal among the 387 articles contributed  from the above analysis the maximum numbers of contributors are 174 (44.96%) of two authors in the articles. The degree of collaboration was 0.563.

 

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