ACUTE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY

Abstract

The study presents the trends in authorship pattern and author’s collaborative research in Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding with a sample of 1920 articles collect from Pub Med database during 2009-2018.The multi- authorship articles are higher and predominant on single authorship. The study found that the researches in this topic are keep toward team research or group research rather than solo research. Overall per capita authorship is 0.16. In this study examines different trends on authorships such as Collaborative Index,Collaborative Coefficient, Moderate Collaborative Coefficient,and Collaborative - Authorship Index. Examine research performance national as well as Global contexts, Medicinal group as reflected in the publication output. The paper is based on Bibliometric analysis of total 1920 research articles contributed by the authors. It was seen that researchers use latest documents. The study reveals the conclusion about the three Lawsof Bibliometrics i.e. Lotka’s law (No. of authors) Bradford law (No. of journals)and Zipf's Law of (Word Occurrence). The findings must reveal various aspects of the characteristics and patterns of contributions of the study.