A bibliometric study of Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing for the period 1973-2014

摘要

The bibliometric portrait of Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing concentrates on four decades publication trends from 1973-2014. The study analyzed 1310 research articles published in 140 issues of the journal. An attempt has been made to study various bibliometric indicators such as year-wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern & productivity, distribution of cited references, different forms of resources used and cited by authors in their research work, ranked list of prolific authors, journals & institutions. Efforts have also been made to test Lotka’s law of scientific productivity.