A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY ON THE METRICS OF COMPUTER SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS ON IEEE

Abstract

This paper presents a Scientometric Study on "Metrics of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE" for the study period 2007-2016 (Ten Years). The following areas such as the year-wise distribution of contribution, impact factor of the journals, year of inception of the journals, periodicity of the journals, citation analysis, collaboration of countries for research, funding agencies, the collaboration of organizations by country wise and area of research concentration have been analyzed. 30 journals have been identified for the study of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE. These journals have been identified based on various quality parameters such as impact factor, citations, review of the journal and reputation, etc. The output of the study is 29258 papers have been published in the marked period of the study. The journal named "IEEE Transactions on VLSI has 2357(8.05%) papers withstand on first in its row as high published number of papers. The journal named "IEEE Transactions on Computational Social System" has 48 (0.16%) papers as on the lowest one. The maximum number of journals of the IEEE Computer Society comes under the subject "Networks" 11(36.6%).

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents a Scientometric Study on "Metrics of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE" for the study period 2007-2016 (Ten Years). The following areas such as the year-wise distribution of contribution, impact factor of the journals, year of inception of the journals, periodicity of the journals, citation analysis, collaboration of countries for research, funding agencies, the collaboration of organizations by country wise and area of research concentration have been analyzed. 30 journals have been identified for the study of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE. These journals have been identified based on various quality parameters such as impact factor, citations, review of the journal and reputation, etc. The output of the study is 29258 papers have been published in the marked period of the study. The journal named "IEEE Transactions on VLSI has 2357(8.05%) papers withstand on first in its row as high published number of papers. The journal named "IEEE Transactions on Computational Social System" has 48 (0.16%) papers as on the lowest one. The maximum number of journals of the IEEE Computer Society comes under the subject "Networks" 11(36.6%).

Keywords: Scientometric Study, Transactions, Computer Society, Metrics, IEEE

INTRODUCTION:

Metric Sciences have been developed in the 20th century such as Librametrics, bibliometric, scientometrics, cyber metrics or webometrics, and informetrics. The objective of the study is to use qualitative and quantitative techniques and methods to measure and evaluate the knowledge domain. Scientometric has developed now a day because of the need to measure and evaluate in the science & technology sector, especially in R&D. Journals are playing a vital role in disseminating information of research & developments in recent era and published papers with high impact with quality, journals are strongly related with gaining achievement, reputation, fame in higher education.

Scientometrics is the study of documents, authorship pattern, citation, area of research concentration, publishing trend, degree of collaboration in which mathematical & statistical methods have been applied.

IEEE Xplore:

IEEE Xplore is the world's most popular database in computer science, electrical, electronics, and technologies. It provides web access facilities to more than four-million fulltext documents from renowned publications to the entire world. It also consists of 195+ journals, 1800+ conference proceedings, 6200+ technical standard, 2400+ ebooks, 425+ educational courses, etc. 20,000 new documents are being added in every month.

Computer Society:

IEEE Computer Society is also one of the premier professional societies in IEEE. Its purpose & scope is to practice and application of computer and information processing science & technology, the advancement of theory, professional membership, etc. Computer Society is the eminent and biggest professional society among the 39 societies run by the IEEE Technical activities board.

Further, Computer society sponsors workshops, seminars, and conferences and publishing varieties of peer- reviewed publications, operating technical committees all over the world to develop the IEEE computing standards. It all supports more than 200 chapters worldwide and participates in educational activities in all levels of the profession.

Publications

The Computer Society is also one of the leading societies in publishing technical material of computing. It has 13 peer-reviewed technical magazines, 20 scholarly journals called transactions, conference proceedings, books, and a variety of digital objects.

The digital library of computer society (CSDL) provides web access to all members of computer publications. The computer society launched a web portal featuring free access to a rotation of CSDL articles, computing now, technical news, multimedia content, and computer blogs in 2008.

In 2014, most publications were converted digitally. Computing edge; complimentary monthly digest is being circulated every month.

Review of Literature

Some of the worthy relevant studies have been given here of its full insight into the present study topic in a perspective.

Muktiar Singh, Nabi Hassan also studied and found that the trend of research publications of the business countries known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) based on research publications / articles published in WoS online databases during the study period for 20 years from 1994 to 2013. A total of 25,52,490 records were retrieved from the database for BRICS, which is 10.67 % of the global records for the twenty years. There were 1.51% of papers published in 1994 whereas the maximum of 12.43% papers has been published in 2013. A Scientometric analysis of the trend of research papers have been presented in the study by way of analyzing; annual distribution of contribution of BRICS Countries to the global share; growth pattern of publications, individual-share by country wise, global countries with collaboration pattern and among the BRICS, ranked institutions, subjects dispersion and ranked journals. This study may be useful for scholars, students, faculty in LIS as well as analyst, informationist, policy makers, administrators of institutions and BRICS Countries to understand the modern trends and effective policies, future collaboration, citation analysis, etc based on data drawn from the database.

Sumit Kumar Banshal, Ashraf Uddin, Khushboo Singhal and Vivek Kumar Singh also studied the Scientometric analysis of research output on computer science in india for 15 years. They collected data for research from the database of WoS and performed analysis on computers and obtained important indicators such as total output of research paper, citation report, collaboration pattern, area of research concentration. The analytical performance displays detailed and useful pictures of competence and status of computer science and technology research in India.

Statement of the Problem

This title was selected for the study because "Computer Society Transactions on IEEE" is a leading publication in the field of Computer Science and Technology. It is available all over the world both on printed as well as in the form of electronic journals.

Objectives of the Study

The present study discussed the total research output, impact factor, year of establishment of the journals, periodicity, citation analysis, collaboration trend with countries for research, funding agencies, the collaboration of organizations for research activities, and area of research concentration. The objectives of the study are as follows

* To identify the annual distribution and growth of literature on Computer Society Transactions on IEEE during the study period 2007-2016

* To identify and analyze the impact factor, year of inception, periodicity of the journals

* To identify and analyze the cited publications and the citations received among the global literature on IEEE Transactions on Computer Society during the study period.

* To examine the collaboration of countries and organizations for research in globally

* To find out the thematic research areas

Scope of the Study

The study covers a period of Ten Years from 2007 to 2016. Thirty journals have been selected for the study. The data have been subtracted from the database of Web of Science. Of these, nine journals are having published on monthly basis and fourteen are on quarterly and seven more are on Bimonthly.

Methodology

All the thirty journals of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE Published from 2007 to 2016 with back issues of Ten years have been taken into analysis for the present study. A datasheet was prepared in MS-Excel to record the data and then entered manually. Each issue of every journal of Computer Society was analyzed using excel with details such as the total research output, impact factor, year of establishment of the journals, periodicity, citation analysis, collaboration trend with countries for research, funding agencies, collaboration trend with organizations for research activities and area of research concentration.

Analysis and Findings

It was found that most numbers of papers have been published on IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics with 2830 (9.32%) and the lowest number of papers have been published on IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering with 44 (0.14%) .

Figure 1 shows the papers published year wise. We could see the publication pattern has been increased year after year. In the year 2007, it was 1918 (6.55%) papers and the same has been increased to 4211 papers in 2016. The publication trend has been increased tremendously within ten years. 29258 papers were recorded on Computer Society Transactions on IEEE during the study period 2007-2016.

Figure 2 shows the impact factor of the journals. There are 2 (7%) journals having got a 0.5-1.5 range of impact factors. 5(17%) & 11(36%) journals are having got 1.5-2.5 and 2.5-3.5 impact factors respectively. 3(10%) more journals are having got with a 3.5-4.5 impact factor and another 3 (10%) journals are having got with 6.5-7.5 impact factor. A journal (3%) named IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence has been received the highest impact factor of 7.5-8.5. There are 5(17%) number of journals that does not have the impact factor.

Figure 3 shows the year of Inception of the Journals on IEEE Transactions on Computer Society. During the period from 1950 to 1970, there was only one journal has been introduced and between 1970 - 1990 there were 5 more journals had been added to the list. In the years 1990-2010 17 more journals were introduced for scholarly communication and since 2010 7 journals have come into existence for access.

Figure 4 indicates that the periodicity of the journals on IEEE Transactions on Computer Society. The maximum number of journals 14 (47%) have been published every quarter followed by 9 (30%) journals that have been published on monthly basis and 7(23%) journals have been published on a bimonthly basis.

Table 5 indicates the report on citations. There are 29258 papers have been published during the study period, and have been recorded in 650494 citations against them. The journal named "IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence has been received the highest citations on 134252 against just 1950 papers and the h-index is 165.

Table 6 & Figure 5 show the collaboration of countries for research output on IEEE Transactions on Computer Society. There are 3 top countries that have been contributed more in numbers such as USA 11194 (38%) papers and South Korea 1016 (3%) papers and China 1003 (3%) papers we contribute against 29258 in total papers.

Table 7 & Figure 6 shows the details of funding & supporting agencies. Four countries have been committed himself more and produce excellent research outputs. The US has 3080 (60%) funding agencies, China has 1949 (38%) funding agencies, European Union has 57 (1%) funding agencies and South Korea has 46 (0.8%) funding agencies. These funding agencies are produced a research output of 5132.

Table 8 & Figure 7 show that the collaboration of organizations for funded research on Computer Society Transactions on IEEE. There were 4104 funded research carried out with 16 countries in association with 90 research organizations/institutions worldwide. Of these, 2375 funded research was carried out by the USA in association with 47 research institutions/organizations.

Table 9 / Figure 8 shows that the dispersion of the subject of publications which is mainly focused on publishing articles on Computer Society Transactions on IEEE. 66.7% of articles have been published on Computer Science and related fields, 16.6% of articles have been published in Engineering & Technology. 6.7% of articles have been published in Mathematics, 6.7% of articles have been published on Telecommunications and 3.3% of articles have been published in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Limitation of the Study

* In-depth knowledge of Scientometric techniques is not applied in this study.

* Selected Journals have been taken for the study.

Major Findings

* 29258 articles have been published in the marked period of study (2007-2016)

* 17 (57%) journals came into existence for access between the years 1990-2010

* Most of the journals 14 (47%) have been published in Quarterly

* 650494 citations have been received against the 29258 articles on the marked period of study.

* USA (38%), China (3%), South Korea (3%), have been named the top three countries for research output against 29258 in total papers

* 4104 funded research was carried out with 16 countries in association with 90 research organizations/institutions worldwide

* 66.7% of articles have been published on Computer Science and related fields

CONCLUSION

The study reveals that the research output of Computer Society Transactions on IEEE, the literature growth is steadily increased year after year in terms of authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, publishing work, author productivity, etc. The majority of the contributors are from the USA, China, and South Korea. Most of the publication was published in the form of articles 28143 (92.6%). Understandable English is the popular medium of communication for research in the IEEE Computer Society globally.

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