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International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS), ISSN: 2277 – 3533 (Print)
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS USING ‘COMPENDEX - CD’
P. Dhanasekaran
Assistant Librarian, Guindy Campus Library,
University of Madras, Chennai- 600 005
ABSTRACT
The paper examines the literature growth of automobiles studies using bibliometric analysis.
It gives a catalyst view of automobile studies made by many scientific scholars. The study
used COMPENDEX–CD, a collection of literature on engineering studies, for analyzing the
literature growth, authorship pattern, spatial distribution of literature and language. The
study found that there is a copious study on automobile and further it is increasing drastically;
single authored with English language published moiré studies; authorship pattern has found
significant contribution in the growth of automobile studies.
Keywords: Scientific Communication, Automobile Studies, COMPENDEX, Authorship
Pattern.
THE CONTEXT
Scientific research studies are growing at faster rate and communicating research
results through publications have become enormous and complex. Scientific information
generated in a subject is an index of science and scientific research being carried out in any
discipline. Scientific research, effectiveness and performance, can be realised only through a
proper communication channels. It is clear that science and scientific communication have
close nexus with each other vice versa. The research outputs are used as yardstick for
measuring the quality and quantity of research work done in a subject concerned. During the
last few years, bibliometric analysis has been increasingly used among the scientific
community and is being used to evaluate the research performance of the scientists and the
growth of various disciplines of science. Therefore it implies and induces to examine the
nature and extent of contribution made by the scientists of a particular discipline. Today,
bibliometric analysis becomes an integral part of academic discipline and bounteous research
works are being carried out for a quantitative study of the various aspects of literature of a
given subject.
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BIBLIOMETRICS: AN OVERVIEW
Bibliometrics is of recent origin and relatively a new branch of academic study, which
emerged as a research front in its own way in Information Science. The terms like
‘Librametrics’, ‘Bibliometrics’, ‘Informetrics’ and ‘Scientometrics’ have been used
interchangeably in the academic field in order to examine the growth of literature in a
discipline and other aspects of literature quantitatively.
Bibliometrics is the statistical analysis and bibliographies data, commonly focusing
on citation analysis of research outputs and publications, i.e. how many times research
outputs and publications are being cited. It is becoming an increasingly important way to
measure and assess research impact of individuals, group of individuals and institutions.
Many attempts have been made to define the term ‘bibliometrics’ and its analogous terms
since the use of the term ‘statistical bibliography’ by Hulme (1923).
The term ‘Librametry’, coined by S.R. Ranganathan (1948), is to denote
“Measurement of various library activities and services by using mathematical and statistical
techniques”. Raising (1962), defined it as “The assembling and interpretation of statistics
relating to books and periodicals to demonstrate historical movements, to determine national
and universal research, and to ascertain in many local situations the general use of books and
journals”. According to Merton and Garfield (1963), bibliometrics is a “Field of inquiry
given over to the quantitative analysis of science and scientific field”. The British Standard
Glossary of Documentation of Terms (1976) describes bibliometrics as the study of “the use
of documents and patterns of publication in which mathematical and statistical methods have
been applied”, which is basically similar to Pritchard’s definition (1969).
Bibliometrics: Genesis and Development
Bibliometrics, the quantification of bibliographical data, evolved from the efforts of
early twentieth century document lists to apply mathematical and statistical analysis to
bibliographical units. Cole and Eales (1917) study on the “The History of Comparative
Anatomy Part-1: A statistical Analysis” is considered to be the first bibliometric study, where
for the first time in 1917, the expression ‘Statistical Analysis” has been used in the literature.
Hulme (1923) was the first to use the expression ‘Statistical bibliography’ and later it was
used by many others. Gross and Gross (1927) study has been considered to be the third study
based on citations. After Hulme, the term statistical bibliography was used by Henkle (1938)
in his article “The Periodical literature of Biochemistry” and Gosnell (1943) in his
dissertation and latter in his article (1984). As the term was considered “very clumsy, not
very descriptive, and can be confused with statistics itself or bibliographies on statistics”,
hence Pritchard (1969), suggested the word ‘Bibliometrics’ in preference to statistical
bibliography. Hence the term bibliometrics is of recent origin.
Application of Bibliometrics
Bibliometric studies are mostly empirical in nature and they are mostly centered on
presentation of facts and data. Bibliometric research includes studies pertaining to scattering
of articles over journals, growth of literature, obsolescence of documents, productivity and
impact of research, distribution of scientific publications by country, by language, citation
studies, and so on. Most of these studies are pertaining to countries, user groups, institutions,
disciplines and documents. It has recently enlarged into informetrics. It covers all quantitative
analysis of information transfer, irrespective of the media. Bibliometrics furnishes possible
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methods by which significant features of literature may be delineated and its working
monitored. In fact, bibliometrics has grown out of the realisation that literature is growing
and changing at a rate with which no librarian or information worker or a scientist equipped
with traditional bibliographic methods and skills could keep abreast. The Bibliometric
analysis has received adequate attention in the recent years and it has been widely applied to
evaluate the research performance of the scientists and the growth of various disciplines of
science. Further, bibliometrics could be used in the identification of emerging research areas.
Bibliometric techniques are now being used for a variety of purposes like determination of
various scientific indicators, evaluation of scientific output, selection of journals for libraries
and even forecasting potential Nobel Laureates. The popularity in the adaptation of
bibliometric techniques in various disciplines stimulated stupendous growth of literature on
bibliometrics and its related areas. Bibliometric techniques are now being vigorously pursued
and with the result, it has been found that one-fourth of all the articles published in Library
and Information Science Periodicals are on bibliometrics and its related topics. It has also
been found that many of the Social Science periodicals are also carrying a large number of
articles on bibliometrics.
LITERATURE SURVEY
There are large number of studies have been carried out in bibliometric analysis and
significant studies are reviewed here: Todorov (1989) has proposed a new bibliographic
method for representing links between sub-fields as defined by a classification scheme which
has been applied to describe the internal links with in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
using the Physics Abstracts database 1984. Begum and Rajendra (1990) analysed the Indian
Zoological science literature covering the period 1975-1984 by extracting the data from
‘Indian Science Abstracts’. The study identified the authorship pattern, collaborative research
trend in the field of Zoological sciences and compared the results with the authorship pattern
in other scientific fields. Similarly, authorship pattern and collaborative research in
Psychology has been analysed by Karisiddappa, Maheswarappa and Shirol (1990) based on
the data collected from ‘Psychological Abstracts’ for the year 1988 which revealed the trend
towards the multiple authorship and varies from one subject field to another subject. Martin
(1991) has made a bibliometric assessment of UK scientific performance based on the
CHI/NSF Science Literature Indicators data-base and suggested more consistent and realistic
set of indicators in assessing the scientific performance. Sengupta and Lalitakumari (1991)
analysed AIDS literature published during 1976-1986 and identified its international channel
of communication, medium of communication, contributing countries, authorship trends and
so on. While analysing the bibliographic data from 430 journal articles on Liquid Crystals
covered in 'Physics Abstracts', Singh and Arunachalam (1991) found that Liquid Crystal
literature is developing and the share of Soviet Union is rising fast and USA is on declining
trend. The output of female researchers in Iceland in the field of Life Sciences relative to that
of male covering the period 1980-2000 has been analysed by Lewison (2001), which reveals
that there is no significant difference in the quality of female and male research output as
measured by journal impact categories or by citations. Rai, Naresh Kumar and Madan (2001)
studied the trends in research in the field of Science and Technology in India from different
faculties over the period 1990-1998 and reveal that there is a noticeable shift in the research
from basic sciences to technology. Considering Bradford law, an analysis of Mexican
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research in Health Sciences was carried out by De Arenas, Castanos-Lomnitz and Licea
(2002).
RESEARCH PROBLEM
Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications is an important aspect of research endeavour
in Information Science in recent years. It could be attributed to the fact that bibliometric
studies are used to identify the pattern of publications, authorship, citations, secondary
journal coverage, and so on. These factors can give an insight into the dynamics of a subject,
which consequently leads to better information handling and management. Bibliometric
analysis has received an adequate attention and it has been widely applied to evaluate the
research performance of the scientists and the growth of various disciplines. Further, it could
be noted that bibliometric data could be used in the identification of emerging research areas,
and in the evaluation of research performance of individual scientists, research groups and
countries. It aims to integrate the cognitive or intellectual structure of research with a view to
appraise the relations among the authors, institutions, and journal articles and as a means of
assisting the peer review procedure. Bibliometric analysis of literature in various disciplines
has been carried out by using primary journals or secondary sources to examine the
quantitative aspects of literature growth in a particular field of knowledge. Quantitative
measurement of publications, citations and other parameters have been largely applied and
used in evaluating scientific research. Hence, it is proposed to study quantitatively the
literature published on Automobile by using the database namely Compendex in CD-ROM.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the research study are:
1. To examine the growth of literature in Automobile research published during 2000-
2012.
2. To identify and analyse the country-wise production of Automobile research output.
3. To analyse the authorship patterns and examine the extent of research collaboration.
4. To study the implications of bibliometrics laws on Automobile research.
METHOD AND MATERIALS
The Compendex-CD (Engineering Index in CD-ROM), is identified as the collection
of various studies on Automobile research. CD covers several hundreds of the leading
Engineering journals providing information for professionals interested in engineering
aspects. Major subjects covered in the Compendex-CD are Electronics, Communication
engineering, fiber optics, networking, Automobile etc. For the purpose of analysis, FoxPro
database system has been used to classify and quantify the extracted data. In addition to the
frequency distribution and percentage analysis, the following statistical tools and bibliometric
indicators have been employed in the process of analysis and interpretation of data.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Table 1 shows the year wise distribution of Automobile records. The number of
articles published 2000-2012 has been taken for the analysis of the study. The number articles
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published gradually increased from 2000 to 2006 and after onwards decreased to year 2002.
The average number of articles published per is 1190 articles.
Table 1: Year-wise distribution of records
S.No Year Number of Articles Percentage
1 2000 937 6.0
2 2001 1477 9.5
3 2002 1310 8.5
4 2003 1032 6.7
5 2004 1047 6.8
6 2005 1386 9.0
7 2006 1971 12.7
8 2007 1716 11.1
9 2008 1521 9.8
10 2009 958 6.2
11 2010 959 6.2
12 2011 840 5.4
13 2012 326 2.1
Total 15481 100.0
Average number of articles per year = 15481/13 = 1190 articles.
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Authorship pattern
Table 5.2 represents the authorship pattern in percentage wise. According to the
classification of authors, One-third of contributed by single author followed by one-fourth of
contributed by two authors. About 20% of the articles (three authors) got the third position.
Table 2: Authorship Pattern
S.No No. of authors No. of articles Percentage
1 Single Author 5248 33.9
2 Two Authors 3890 25.1
3 Three Authors 3007 19.4
4 Four Authors 1855 12.0
5 Five Authors 927 6.0
6 Information Tit Bits 535 3.6
Total 15481 100.0
Year- Wise Authorship Pattern
Table 3 indicates the authorship pattern and year wise contribution of articles. It is seen from
the table, 795 articles published by single author in the year 2006. Three fourth of the
contributions are single and two and three authors collaboration.
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Table 3: Distribution of year wise authorship pattern
Year One author Two author Three author Four author Five author Six author Total
2000 365 256 156 87 55 39 938
2001 459 399 307 184 64 64 1477
2002 364 348 260 171 79 88 1310
2003 379 280 182 106 41 44 1032
2004 431 240 193 116 36 31 1047
2005 561 315 241 143 95 31 1386
2006 795 511 327 220 93 25 1971
2007 526 443 350 211 142 44 1716
2008 447 360 336 218 119 41 1521
2009 292 242 193 125 67 39 958
2010 275 238 205 130 63 48 959
2011 259 184 194 97 54 52 840
2012 96 76 66 51 24 14 327
Total 5248 3890 3007 1855 927 535 15481
Document type distribution
Table 4: Document-wise Distribution of Records
S.No. Type of Document No. of articles Percentage
1 Conference Articles 3793 24.5
2 Conference Proceedings 357 2.3
3 Conference Review 11 .1
4 Dissertation 1 .0
5 Journal Articles 9264 59.8
6 Monograph Chapter 12 .1
7 Conference Papers 1905 12.3
8 Preprint 6 .0
9 Report Review 108 .7
10 Unpublished Preprint 24 .2
Total 15481 100.0
Normally scientific research appears in Journal first, and then finds plays in
conference. It is seen from the table 4 that nearly 60% of articles (9264) appear in journal
articles, one fourth of article 44 % appears as conference articles.
Article treatment code
The articles are grouped based on the nature of their contents. The major categories listed are.
T - Theoretical
G - General Review
A - Applications
X - Experimental
M - Management aspects
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E - Economic/Cost data/Market Survey
H - Historical
Table 5 shows the different categories of articles. Nearly 3,448 of articles on
Automobile i.e. 22.3% are General review in nature. It is followed by Experimental 14%,
theoretical 12.4%, but in combination nature of articles is more in Automobile research area.
From the table, more than 4000 articles are from applications with other nature. In overall
view General review and Application oriented articles are more in the study.
Table 5: Article treatment code
Description Frequency Percentage
A!(Applications)^G!(General Review)^T!(Theoretical 4 .0
A!(Applications)^G!(General Review)| 50 .3
A!(Applications)^M!(Management Aspects)| 2 .0
A!(Applications)^T!(Theoretical)^X!(Experimental)| 12 .1
A!(Applications)^T!(Theoretical)| 38 .2
A!(Applications)^X!(Experimental)| 16 .1
A!(Applications)| 60 .4
A^(Applications)^E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Surv 43 .3
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^H^(Historical) 3 .0
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^L^(Literature 7 .0
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^M^(Management 12 .1
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^N^(Numeric/Sta 1 .0
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^N^(Numerical)| 1 .0
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^T^(Theoretical 181 1.2
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)^X^(Experimenta 86 .6
A^(Applications)^G^(General Review)| 964 6.2
A^(Applications)^H^(Historical)^G^(General Review) 1 .0
A^(Applications)^H^(Historical)^X^(Experimental)| 2 .0
A^(Applications)^H^(Historical)| 1 .0
A^(Applications)^L^(Literature Review/Bibliography 5 .0
A^(Applications)^M^(Management Aspects)^T^(Theoret 2 .0
A^(Applications)^M^(Management Aspects)| 15 .1
A^(Applications)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)^T^(Theore 1 .0
A^(Applications)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)^X^(Experi 1 .0
A^(Applications)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)| 3 .0
A^(Applications)^N^(Numerical)^X^(Experimental)| 2 .0
A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)^E^(Economic/Cost 4 .0
A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)^G^(General Review 2 .0
A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)^M^(Management Asp 1 .0
A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)| 348 2.2
A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)| 863 5.6
A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)^E^(Economic/Cost 2 .0
A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)^G^(General Revie 3 .0
A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)^L^(Literature Re 1 .0
A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)^T^(Theoretical)| 18 .1
A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)| 943 6.1
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A^(Applications)| 980 6.3
E!(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^G!(General Re 6 .0
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^A^(Applicatio 3 .0
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^G^(General Re 51 .3
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^M^(Management 10 .1
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^N^(Numeric/St 1 .0
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^T^(Theoretica 9 .1
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)^X^(Experiment 4 .0
E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey)| 26 .2
G!(General Review)^A!(Applications)| 2 .0
G!(General Review)^L!(Literature Review/Bibliograp 2 .0
G!(General Review)^M!(Management Aspects)| 6 .0
G!(General Review)^T!(Theoretical)^X!(Experimental 2 .0
G!(General Review)^T!(Theoretical)| 8 .1
G!(General Review)^X!(Experimental)| 4 .0
G!(General Review)| 98 .6
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)^E^(Economic/Co 4 .0
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)^L^(Literature 1 .0
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)^M^(Management 2 .0
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical 4 .0
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)^X^(Experimenta 20 .1
G^(General Review)^A^(Applications)| 114 .7
G^(General Review)^E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Su 12 .1
G^(General Review)^H^(Historical)^M^(Management As 1 .0
G^(General Review)^H^(Historical)| 22 .1
G^(General Review)^L^(Literature Review/Bibliograp 37 .2
G^(General Review)^M^(Management Aspects)^A^(Appli 1 .0
G^(General Review)^M^(Management Aspects)^E^(Econo 1 .0
G^(General Review)^M^(Management Aspects)^T^(Theor 1 .0
G^(General Review)^M^(Management Aspects)^X^(Exper 1 .0
G^(General Review)^M^(Management Aspects)| 113 .7
G^(General Review)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)| 3 .0
G^(General Review)^N^(Numerical)| 1 .0
G^(General Review)^T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications 3 .0
G^(General Review)^T^(Theoretical)^M^(Management A 1 .0
G^(General Review)^T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental 105 .7
G^(General Review)^T^(Theoretical)| 310 2.0
G^(General Review)^X^(Experimental)^A^(Application 15 .1
G^(General Review)^X^(Experimental)^T^(Theoretical 1 .0
G^(General Review)^X^(Experimental)| 206 1.3
G^(General Review)| 3448 22.3
H^(Historical)^A^(Applications)^G^(General Review) 1 .0
H^(Historical)^A^(Applications)| 1 .0
H^(Historical)| 7 .0
L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)^A^(Applications 1 .0
L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)^G^(General Revi 1 .0
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L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)^M^(Management A 3 .0
L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)^T^(Theoretical) 16 .1
L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)^X^(Experimental 13 .1
L^(Literature Review/Bibliography)| 2 .0
M!(Management Aspects)| 4 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^A^(Applications)^T^(Theoret 2 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^A^(Applications)^X^(Experim 1 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^A^(Applications)| 11 .1
M^(Management Aspects)^E^(Economic/Cost Data/Marke 2 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^G^(General Review)| 1 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^T^(Theoretical)| 5 .0
M^(Management Aspects)^X^(Experimental)| 1 .0
M^(Management Aspects)| 55 .4
N^(Numeric/Statistical)^A^(Applications)^T^(Theore 1 .0
N^(Numeric/Statistical)^A^(Applications)| 1 .0
N^(Numeric/Statistical)^T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experim 3 .0
N^(Numeric/Statistical)| 1 .0
N^(Numerical)^T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)| 2 .0
N^(Numerical)| 1 .0
T!(Theoretical)^X!(Experimental)| 20 .1
T!(Theoretical)| 42 .3
T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications)^G^(General Review 5 .0
T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications)^M^(Management Asp 1 .0
T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications)^X^(Experimental)| 99 .6
T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications)| 209 1.4
T^(Theoretical)^B^(Biographical)| 4 .0
T^(Theoretical)^E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey 5 .0
T^(Theoretical)^G^(General Review)^A^(Applications 1 .0
T^(Theoretical)^G^(General Review)| 3 .0
T^(Theoretical)^L^(Literature Review/Bibliography) 1 .0
T^(Theoretical)^M^(Management Aspects)^E^(Economic 2 .0
T^(Theoretical)^M^(Management Aspects)| 3 .0
T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)^A^(Applications)| 31 .2
T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)^G^(General Review 3 .0
T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)^L^(Literature Rev 1 .0
T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)^N^(Numeric/Statis 1 .0
T^(Theoretical)^X^(Experimental)| 984 6.4
T^(Theoretical)| 1926 12.4
X!(Experimental)^T!(Theoretical)| 2 .0
X!(Experimental)| 36 .2
X^(Experimental)^A^(Applications)^G^(General Revie 5 .0
X^(Experimental)^A^(Applications)^N^(Numeric/Stati 5 .0
X^(Experimental)^A^(Applications)^T^(Theoretical)| 6 .0
X^(Experimental)^A^(Applications)| 243 1.6
X^(Experimental)^E^(Economic/Cost Data/Market Surv 16 .1
X^(Experimental)^G^(General Review)^A^(Application 12 .1
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X^(Experimental)^G^(General Review)^L^(Literature 1 .0
X^(Experimental)^G^(General Review)| 17 .1
X^(Experimental)^H^(Historical)| 1 .0
X^(Experimental)^L^(Literature Review/Bibliography 1 .0
X^(Experimental)^M^(Management Aspects)| 1 .0
X^(Experimental)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)^T^(Theore 1 .0
X^(Experimental)^N^(Numeric/Statistical)| 3 .0
X^(Experimental)^T^(Theoretical)^A^(Applications)| 26 .2
X^(Experimental)^T^(Theoretical)| 115 .7
X^(Experimental)| 2173 14.0
Total 15481 100.0
Language wise distribution of records
Table 6: Language wise distribution of records
Table 7 indicates language wise distributions of records. From the table shows that
91% articles are of English language and followed by Russian language.
S.No Languages Frequency Percentage
1 Chinese 200 1.3
2 Croation 1 .0
3 English^French^German 2 .0
4 English^French^Japanese 1 .0
5 English^French^Spanish 2 .0
6 English^French 12 .1
7 English^German 84 .5
8 English^Japanese 54 .3
9 English^Serbocroatian 1 .0
10 English^Slovene 1 .0
11 English^Spanish 2 .0
12 English 14087 91.0
13 Finnish 1 .0
14 French^English 1 .0
15 French 49 .3
16 German^English 96 .6
17 German 236 1.5
18 Italian 4 .0
19 Japanese^English 4 .0
20 Japanese 296 1.9
21 Russian 336 2.2
22 Slovenian^English 3 .0
23 Slovenian 1 .0
24 Spanish 6 .0
25 Turkish 1 .0
Total 15481 100.0
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Author productivity
Table 8 indicates the author productivity of articles in descending order. The highest
number of articles (472) published by Kimbertey, William.
Table 8: Author productivity
S.No. Authors Frequency Percentage
1 Kimberley, William 57 .4
2 Jost, Kevin 36 .2
3 Shahmanesh, Nargess 33 .2
4 Bunting, Alan 25 .2
5 Buchholz, Kami 19 .1
6 Russell, Eric 19 .1
7 Glover, Mauric 16 .1
8 Crosse, Jesse 15 .1
9 Irving, Bob 15 .1
10 Scarlett, Michael 14 .1
11 Martin, Norman 13 .1
12 Zwahlen, Helmut T. Schnell, Thomas 13 .1
13 Siuru, Bill 12 .1
14 Eisenstein, Pau| 12 .1
15 Kochan, Anna 12 .1
16 Langdon, Ray 11 .1
17 Neal, B.L. 11 .1
18 Jacobson, Marcus 10 .1
19 Wyczalek, Floyd A. 10 .1
20 Takahashi, Wataru Nagata, Tatuo^Okada, Minoru^Sida,
Yoshiaki^Kuwayama, Tetuya
10 .1
21 Owen, Jean V. 10 .1
22 Morton, Ian 9 .1
23 Wagstaff, Ian 9 .1
24 Aronson, Robert B. 9 .1
25 Burman, Richard 9 .1
26 Rogers, Ken 8 .1
27 Diem, William 8 .1
28 Amann, Charles A. 8 .1
29 Sawyer, Christopher A. 8 .1
30 Noaker, Paula M. 7 .0
31 Birch, Stuar 7 .0
32 Bamsey, Ian 7 .0
33 Ashley, Steven 7 .0
34 Fenton, John 7 .0
35 Johnson, Peter K. 7 .0
36 McCormick, John 7 .0
37 Brooke, Lindsay 7 .0
38 Daniels, Jeff 7 .0
39 Barthorpe, Frances 7 .0
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40 O'Connor, Leo 6 .0
41 Yanik, Anthony J. 6 .0
42 Whitworth, Ben 6 .0
43 Mapleston, Peter 6 .0
44 Wigotsky, Victor 6 .0
45 Dwyer, John 6 .0
46 Miller, Bernie 6 .0
47 Mortimer, John 6 .0
48 Bannatyne, Ross 5 .0
49 Murray, Charles J. 5 .0
50 Catton, Elaine 5 .0
51 Chamberlain, Gary 5 .0
52 Kurihara, Yuki 5 .0
53 Mortimer, Rudolf G. 5 .0
54 Bailey, Jane M. 5 .0
55 Hsieh, Ching C.Oh,Kong Ping 5 .0
CONCLUDING REMARKS
It has been acknowledged by scientific community that bibliometric analysis has
served as an important tool in measuring the growth of literature of a concerned subject as
well as measuring the authors productivity through citation of their research papers. The
present study found that there are 15,481 contributions on Automobile research productivity
during the study period. The number articles published gradually increased for a certain
period afterwards declined significantly. Nearly 60% of articles (9264) appeared in journal
articles, one fourth of article (44%) appeared as conference articles. Nearly 3,448 of articles
on Automobile (22.3%) were General review in nature. It is followed by Experimental,
theoretical, but in combination nature of articles is more in Automobile research area. USA
has contributed the highest number of records followed by United Kingdom and Japan. India
has recorded only 13 articles. Majority of the articles were written in English language
followed by Russian language. The highest number of articles (472) published by Kimbertey,
William. Findings revealed that single authored studied are found more in comparison with
multiple authorship. The conclusion of the study demonstrates that bibliometric analysis is
highly valuable in the context of it examines the growth of a subject and determines
authorship pattern.
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