Bibliometric Study of the Defence Science Journal

Abstract

The Bibliometric studies are on the subject of interdisciplinary and major subject newlinein nature of the science to identify the pattern of publication, authorship and newlinecitation analysis. It is the vast area of distribution of literature by country-wise, newlinesubject-wise and language-wise. It is useful to identify the subject relationship, newlinestructure of knowledge and pattern of communication. The present study was newlinecarried out using 1552 scholarly research articles published in the Defence newlineScience Journal during the period 1992-2016, covered overall twenty five years newlineof articles. newlineThe data are collected from the Defence Science Journal. It is the area of Defence newlineScience and Technology published from India by the Defence Scientific newlineInformation and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi. The Index is newlineavailable in the DRDO Publications of open access for all users. The research has newlineanalyzed and selected only the Defence Science Journal which is a bimonthly newlinemultidisciplinary research journal. It was started in 1949 in the area of Defence newlinescience and technology. It is mostly confined to examine article distribution newlinepatterns of the research articles, authorship pattern, geographical distribution of newlineauthors and citation analysis. newlineData collected through database were analyzed using different conventional newlinestatistical tools and expressed as tables, figures, percentages, average, Relative