Authorship and Collaboration Pattern in Ecological Applications: A Scientometric Study
Résumé
An investigation was made on the authorship pattern in ecological literature, based on the data collected from ‘Ecological Applications’ which reveals that 7623 authors have contributed 1923 papers during 2003 to 2012. The study examines authorship and collaboration pattern in the literature pertaining to this journal. Scientometric tools such as collaboration index, collaboration co-efficient have been used. Applicability of Lotka’s law has been tested. The study reveals that multiple authors (3-6 authors) were dominant with 60.37% for the study period. The average Collaborative coefficient and Collaborative index are 0.28 and 4.17 respectively.