Abstract

Citation study is ideal for librarians to develop and provide innovative services for both universities and administrative university staff. The study reveals that journals are the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of biotechnology accounting for 79.72% of total citations although citations from books, proceedings, theses, reports and patents are also found. It is also observed small percentage of users also cited web resources. Plant cell tissue & org .cult (Netherlands) has ranked the first with 121 citations accounting for 4.16% of the total journal citations. Further, Bradford's Law of Scattering was applied. It is observed that major citation from journal literature, besides that study examined the authorship pattern more cited materials were contributed by Multi authors and Degree of collaboration is 0.85.

Details

Title
Citation Analysis of Doctoral Theses in Biotechnology Submitted to Kuvempu University, Karnataka: A Case Study
Author
Banateppanvar, Koteppa; BUKannappanavar, BSBiradar
Pages
147-157
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Maharishi Markandehwar University
ISSN
22295984
e-ISSN
22495576
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1707789830
Copyright
Copyright Maharishi Markandehwar University 2013