R. LAKSHMI MLIS – Final Year Student

Publication productivity of any literature is the index to know the growth

of that science. Measuring the publication productivity of individuals,

organizations and periodicals were also the determining factor for

understanding the growth and development of the subject

For measuring the quality of the journal the bibliometrics study is very

much useful to judge the nature of the journal and its scope for research

Bibliometrics is the method of measuring the

publication productivity of an author, institution or

country

1. Bradford’s law of scattering of scientific papers

2. Zipf’s law of word occurrence

3. Lotka’s inverse square law of scientific

productivity

It is decided by the researcher to study about the growth and

development of commerce and management literature published

in the journal “SMART Journal of Business and Management

studies” . Hence, the study is the bibliometrics analysis of

SMART Journal of Business and Management,

The researcher decided to study the

publication productivity of the journal since

its inception i.e 2005 to 2012

To reveal the trend of publishing articles in the Journal

To identify the scattering of research articles in the various

subject areas of commerce and management covered by the

journal studied.

To identify the institution wise and geographical

contribution made to the journal.

To study the authorship pattern and examine the relevance

of Lotkas Law

It is decided by the researcher to study about the growth

and development of commerce and management

literature published in the journal “SMART Journal of

Business and Management studies” . Hence, the study is

the bibliometrics analysis of SMART Journal of

Business and Management,

Percentage Method

Growth Rate by Time Series analysis

Doubling Time by using Subramaniam’s

Formula

Authors Productivity by Lotka’s Law

First Chapter ‘Introduction’.

Second Chapter ‘ Review of Literature’.

Third Chapter ‘Methodology’.

Fourth Chapter ‘Analysis of Data’.

Fifth Chapter ‘Findings and Conclusion’

Year No Articles Percentage

2005 29 16.6

2006 27 15.4

2007 24 13.7

2008 23 13.1

2009 21 12

2010 22 12.6

2011 21 12

2012 (6 Month) 8 4.6

Total 175 100

Subject No. Percentage

HRM 45 25.8

Marketing 36 20.5

Fin Mgt 31 17.8

Banking 13 7.5

Economics 10 5.6

Pages No .of Articles Percentage

1-5 6 3.3

6-10 9 5.2

11-15 11 6.3

16-20 9 5.2

21-25 11 6.3

Above 25 129 73.7

Total 175 100

Out of 175 papers, 58 (33.2 percent) have 6 to

10 references, which is followed by 38 papers

(21.7 percent) with 11-15 references, 31 papers

(17.7 percent) with 1-5 references. Hence, it is

found that the authors contributed articles for the

there journal have a healthy trend of citing a

moderate number of references.

Institutions Records Percentage

Bharathidasan University 26 14.9 Annamalai University 21 12

Pondicherry University 19 10.9

P.S.G. College 11 6.3

Karunya University 9 5.2

Alagappa University 8 4.6

SRM University 6 3.4

Author Articles Rank

Babu .M 6 1

Chinnadorai K.M. 5 2

Clement 5 2

Nambirajan .T 4 4

Sankaran 4 4

On an average 10 to 11 articles were published from every issue of the

journal

The maximum number of papers (16.6 percent) was published in the year

2005 and minimum number of papers (12 percent) of 21 each was

published in the year 2009 and 2011respectively.

Average growth rate of publication productivity of the journal is 4.3. The

growth rate of the journal with the doubling time is 5.9; the rate of growth

is in positive trend.

Of the 175 papers, the length of (129, 73.7 percent) had the pages of more than 25

paper, 6.3 percent with 21-25 pages, and 5.2 percent with 16-20 pages.

The maximum of 221 authors from Tamilnadu contributing to SMART Journal

during the period of study next to this, 11 authors from Pondicherry contributing to

this journal stood in the second place.

The maximum 45 authors each from Tiruchirappalli and Coimbatore ranked first in

contributing to the SMART Journal. Next to this authors from Kadalur district

contributed 24 papers during the period of study ranked in the second place.

It is noted that India ranks first in order of contributing 293 authors. This is due to

the fact that the SMART Journal is published from India.

Prof. M. Babu (6) is the top among the contributing authors for the journal SMART

during do the period of study followed by K.M. Chinnadorai (5) and J.C. Clement

Sudan (5) with five articles each ranked in the second place.

The journal has remarkable changes such as the

quality of papers published increased tremendously with

latest information. The subscriptions of SMART

Journal are continuously increasing and it has been

successful in its primary objective of information

dissemination in the field of commerce and

management.