Scientometrics Observations of Authorship Pattern and Collaborative Research on Leukemia

Abstract

This study explores to know the authorship pattern and collaborative research in Leukemia using a scientometric technique. Web of Science citation database was used to essence the bibliographic data for the period of 2009 to 2018. The study also examines the different aspects like; year-wise distribution of authorship, collaborative index, collaboration co-efficiency, degree of collaboration, relative growth rate, etc. It is observed from the analysis that the majority of the articles are published in the year 2012 by a single author. The average collaborative index 3.56 has been estimated from 2009 to 2018. The maximum degree of collaboration is in the year 2018 and the lowest average degree of collaboration in the year 2009. The study also revealed that the average collaboration co-efficient is 0.68, highest research articles are contributed by more than ten authors, relative growth rate decline from the rate of 0.72 to 0.12 and doubling time for all years are steadily increasing from 0.96 to 5.62 from 2009 to 2018.