INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

11-17

Authors: Gaikwad, Deepali C and Khokale, Revati R

A Bibliometric analysis of the Journal “Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge’’ for the period from 2005-2006 has been carried out. The present study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects such as year-wise distribution of articles, authorship patterns, subject-wise distributions, citation patterns, study of citations etc. of the Journal. The study reveals that authors prefer writing in collaboration. The result analyzed reveals that botany subject ranks first in research followed by agriculture, fisheries. The highest number citations are contributed are in the year 2006. As Botany is the basic subject of Indian culture as all the livelihood starts and ends in botany so it is the highly preferred subject by researchers Articles with 1-9 citation ranks highest. The ranked list of journals reveals that Indian Journal of Econ Tax Bot ranks first in the list .Hence it is observed that authors prefer Indian literature. Geographical distribution reveals that India is highly preferred by the authors.