Abstract :
This is a study of Scientometric analysis of a Journal of Social Work carried out from the year 2001 to 2010. A total number of 369 contributions published in 33 issues of 10 volumes from the year 2001-2010 have been consulted and selected for this study. Out of 369 contributions, 187 are articles and rests i.e. 182 are book reviews and others. The details like volume wise/issue wise and year-wise distribution of contributions, volume-wise authorship pattern of published articles, number of articles published institution-wise, geographical distribution of published articles, volume-wise average citations per articles, volume-wise average number of pages in each contribution has been studied in this paper. The recorded data has been analyzed, tabulated and then interpreted appropriately.
Keyword :
Scientometric analysis, Authorship pattern, Distribution of Contributions in the journal of Social work, Scientometric analysis of journal of social Work, Citation analysis.