Citation Analysis of Economics Ph.D. Theses of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad: A Scientometric Study

Sandip B Khandare, Shashank S Sonwane

Abstract


The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the citations of Economics Ph.D. theses of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad for the applicability of Bradford’s Law of Scattering and Leimkuhler model. The data has been taken from Citations of Ph.D. theses of Economics subject from 1967 to 2017. During the period of the study a total of 30,611 citations were received from 319 Ph.D. theses. Out of 30611 citations 7750 citations are Journal citations. A ranked list of journals has been prepared and it is found that ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ was the most productive journal which has published 1076(13.88%) total articles. Accordingly the relationship between the zones, the data does not fit Bradford’s law of scattering mathematically but verbally it fits into it. The Leimkuhler model is tested and found that the data does not fits in the present data set for Bradford multiplier k=12.42.

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