Research Patterns and Citations in the Cancer Research Output of Madurai Kamaraj University
Authors : Dr. C. Anandhi & Dr. R Sarangapani
Abstract – The study examines the research pattern and citation in the field of Cancer research done by the researchers of M.K University. The study intends to find out the type of document, the growth in literature, the most prolific authors, the most productive departments and the most relevant sources along with the citations, the most frequent keywords and different collaborative measures. The researcher collects 428 publications from the Web of Science database published during 2010-2020 and analyzes and visualizes the data using Bibliometrix R Packages, bibexcel and VOS viewer. The mean value of DC, CC & MCC are 0.99, 0.77 and 0.79 respectively and it is highly significant and shows high collaboration in the authorship. The authorship pattern is inversely proportional to the number of citations. RSC Advances, Environmental Toxicology and InorganicaChimicaActa are the most preferred journals and research works on breast cancer and antibacterial activity are comparatively more ongoing cancer researches during the study period. The study suggests that the researchers not only depends on the collaborative research works but also should focus on improving the quality of research works based on variables such as quality of paper, the novelty of ideas, methodology, accessibility and visibility of the research field.
Keywords – Research Pattern, Citation, Cancer Research, M.K University, Research Output, Scientometric study, Degree of Collaboration, Collaborative Co-efficient, Modified Collaborative Coefficient.
DOI URL – https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.7.3.2021.1428
Cite This Article As – Anandhi, C. & Sarangapani, R. (2021). Research Patterns and Citations in the Cancer Research Output of Madurai Kamaraj University. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 7(3) 94-103. www.ijrls.in
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Publication Date: 16 August 2021