Cited and Citing Pattern of Open Access Journals: A Pilot Study with Selected Indian Journals of Physics- Chemistry-Mathematics
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Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi − 221005, Uttar Pradesh
Ajay Kumar Chaubey -
Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi − 221005, Uttar PradeshBhaskar Mukherjee
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https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2018/v55i1/120287Keywords:
Cited-Citing Reference, Co-Citation Pattern, Coupling, Open Access JournalsAbstract
This study is designed to assess the disciplinary difference of cited-citing references of Indic origin open access journals namely Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP), Journal of Chemical Science (JCS) and Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM) in terms of source, authorship, subject diversity, accessibility, citation-age, quantity & citinglife. The sample size consist of 23 issues, 277 articles, 7004 cited references and 2349 citing sources of these 3 journals. While for cited reference, we download reference list of every published article from the official website of the journals, for citing reference, we explore Google Scholar and Scopus both to identify maximum number of citing source during April 2017. Results show that for internet enabled OA articles there is no acceleration of citing behavior; rather, on the contrary, a significant trend is revealed for an increase in authors’ citing somewhat older references. Significant main effects point also at more cited references was of journal articles and was of Indic origin; however, more citing reference was of foreign original journals. Both for cited-citing reference joint authorship were predominant. In spite of the fact that present study considered only open access articles for analysis, results indicates that PCM authors mostl
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