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International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsVolume 119 No. 17 2018, 633-648ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version)url: http://www.acadpubl.eu/hub/Special Issuehttp://www.acadpubl.eu/hub/MAPPING OF VETERINARY MEDICINE RESEARCH ACROSS THE GLOB: ASCIENTOMETRIC ASSESSMENT ON WEB OF SCIENCE DATABASE DURING2008-2017112A. Issac Newton, 2 Dr. P. Gomathi, 3 M. PrakashPh.D. Scholar, DLIS , Periyar University, Salem. Tamilnadu, India.Assistant professor, Dept of LIS, Periyar University, Salem. Tamilnadu, India.3II-M. L. I. S, Periyar University, Salem. Tamilnadu, India.2gomathi148@gmail.comAbstractThe present study may be useful for understanding the importance of research anddevelopment activities, measuring the relative growth rate and exponential growth rate. It helpsin making research and development policies for improving the productivity of scientists invarious fiends. The study examined the Scientometric analysis of “Veterinary Medicine” from2008 to 2017. During this period, we discussed the development of Veterinary Medicine year byyear in this study. The study was undertaken to examine the year wise distribution ofcontribution, authorship pattern, the degree of collaboration, relative growth rate and doublingtime, country-wise distribution of articles and institution wise distribution of contributions. Thestudy revealed that the Degree of Collaboration was high in the year 2017 (0.90%), the RelativeGrowth Rates (RGR) were decreased from 2008 (0.71%) to 2017 (0.13%) in the span of tenyears. The doubling time (DT) has rapidly increased while calculating year wise, I. e. 2008(0.98%) to 2017 (5.33%).Keywords: Scientometrics, Relative Growth Rate, Doubling Time, Global Contribution,Veterinary Medicine633

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial Issue1. IntroductionScientometrics is “The measurement of scientific output and the impact of scientificfindings on public policy”. The Scientometrics studies have enabled to develop a body oftheoretical knowledge and a group of techniques and have facilitated its application for thefurther growth of knowledge-based information.Veterinary MedicineVeterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis,and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals. The scope of veterinarymedicine is wide, covering all animal species, both domesticated and wild, with a wide range ofconditions which can affect different species.Web of ScienceWeb of Science (Previously known as Web of Knowledge) in an online subscription-basedscientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information(ISI) now maintained by Clarivate Analytics (Previously the Intellectual Property and sciencebusiness of Thomson Reuters), that provides a comprehensive citation search.2. Literature ReviewKrauskopf, E., Garcia, F., & Funk, R. (2017) The purpose of this study was to investigate theassociation between language and a total number of citations found among documents in journalswritten in English and other languages. We selected all the journals clustered together in theJournal Citation Reports 2014 under the subject category "Veterinary Sciences" and downloadeddata registered Web of Science Database for the year 1994-2013. We classified each of thesejournals by quartile and extracted information regarding their impact factor, language(s) stated,country of origin, a total number of documents published, a total number of reviews published,the percentage of documents published in English. Interestingly, although most of the journalsstate being multi-language. The results of this study suggest that journals should consideradopting English as the main language as this will increase citation counts and the impact factorof the journal.634

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueSife, A. S., & Kipanyula, M. J. (2016) A Scientometric analysis was conducted to examine theresearch productivity of veterinary scientists at the Sokoine University of Agriculture from 1984to 2015. Data on publications, citations and related metrics for 97 scientists were retrieved usingthe Publish or Perish software. A total of 2,392 publications were recorded for all veterinaryscientists, giving an average of 74.75 publications per year. The whole study period recorded themean RGR and Dt of 2.10 and 0.36 respectively. The rate of growth of publications increasedwhile the corresponding doubling time deceased. Veterinary scholars in the USA published theirresearch findings in 241 different journals during the period between 1984 and 2015.El-Berry, D. K. (2016) Bibliometric analysis of PubMed publications is a quantitative indicatorof research productivity of scientific institutions. The current study aimed to quantitativelyanalyze and compare the research publication productivity of the Egyptian faculties of veterinarymedicine published between 2000 and 2014 in PubMed-indexed journals. G.Vasumathi ,J.Dhana Sekar (2017), Egyptian faculties of veterinary medicine produced together 710 articles.In the current study, the PubMed research output of the faculties of veterinary medicine wasquantitatively analyzed. The future study will focus on the qualitative analysis of the PubMedpublications of these faculties using the journal impact factor and citation count.3. MethodologyThe data were collected from the Web of Science database by using the topic provision. Theresearch was conducted for the term “Veterinary Medicine”, the overall data were 4,715 duringthe period of the study. The research field selected was core journals. The study evaluates theoverall literature output of ten years time from 2008 to 2017.ObjectivesThe following are the important objectives of the study:1. To analysis the year-wise publication of Veterinary Medicine2. To measure the authorship pattern of publications3. To observe the Single author Vs Multi-Author4. To determine the degree of collaboration5. To measure the relative growth rate and doubling time635

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial Issue6. To study the country wise records7. To find out the most productive journalsLimitationsThis study is limited to, the results yielded by research outputs published from January 2008 toDecember 2017 only.Table: 1 Year-Wise Publication of Veterinary Medicine Research outputS.NOPublication 44715100197033000TotalTo analyses the year wise output on “Veterinary Medicine” at world level from 2008 to 2017(10years). There is about 4715 total output. In the year 2016, the output measured 653(13.8%); thisis the highest records out of 4715 records. In the year 2008, the output measured was 377(8%);this is the lowest records out of 4715 records. The output performance rate is to below 10%,from 2008 to 2011, 2013 and 2014. Onwards the output performance is to more than 10% from2015 to 2017. The study includes the data covered in the Web of Science database from 2008 to2017.636

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueTable: 2 Analysis of Authorship patternS.NOAuthorsNo. of. Articles%1Single author70715.02Two authors69014.63Three authors70215.04Four authors69614.75Five authors61113.0130927.74715100%6More than FiveauthorsTotalThe overall analysis of the authorship pattern and its percentage in contributing the researchoutput in the field of veterinary medicine. The study reveals that a total number of 14643 authorshad contributed 4715 articles. It clearly indicates it could be observed from the results that Morethan Five authored publications rank first in order to share1309 (27.7%) of the total researchoutput. The Single and Three authored papers followed the second order taking 707,702(15.0%).The Four authored contributions take the third position 696(14.7%), followed by Two authorspublished in 690 (14.6%), and the last position of Five authored papers stands at in orderwitnessing 611 contributions which represent only (13.0%) of total research output.637

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueFigure: 2.1 Analysis of Authorship patternTable: 3 Single Vs Multi Authors in Veterinary Medicine ResearchS.NoAuthorship PatternPublication%1Single Author70715.02Multi-Author400885.0Total4715100It is observed from the table 4.6.4 that the authorship pattern in terms of single authors andmulti-authors during the period of study. Out of 4715 research outputs, Multi-authors publishedthe majority of 4008 (85.0 %) papers and single authors published the rest of 704 (15.0 %)articles. It is noted that most of the authors are interested to publish their research papers with coauthors.638

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueTable: 4 Analysis of Degree of CollaborationSingle AuthorMultiple AuthorTotal AuthorsDegree of(NS)(NM)(NS sThe table shows the details about the Degree of Collaboration, which indicate tend in Single andMultiple authors in 2008 – 2017 as shown in table 4. The degree of collaboration ranges from0.70 to 0.90 and the average degree of collaboration is 8.53. The DC is calculated by using theformula K. Subramanian, 1982;DC DC DC 0.85In the present study the value of DC is 0.85.639

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueTable: 5 Relative Growth Rate (RGR) & doubling timeYearNo. ofCumulativeLogLogRGRDoublingpublicationsNo. of(w1)(w2)(W2-0 08201758547158.328.450.135.33Total4715Table 5 is shown about the Relative Growth Rate and Doubling time. The highest relative growthis 0.71 in the year 2009, and the lowest Relative Growth is 0.13 in the year 2017. The highestDoubling Time is 5.33 in the year 2017, and lowest Doubling Time is 0.98 in the year 2009.640

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueTable : 6 Block wise scientific productivityBlocksTotal number of otal4715100Average publication per block 4715/2 2357.5Research output on veterinary medicine in global level during the period 2008-2017 consist of4715 records with an Average publication per block as 2357.5. It can be observed that there wasa steady growth in publications over the study period. The study reveals that both blocks show ahealthy publishing trend.Table: 7 Country wise Distribution of Veterinary Medicine (Top ly2254.811323748Peoples R 5870641

International Journal of Pure and Applied MathematicsSpecial IssueOthers105222.31333732Total4715100197033000The country-wise distribution of publication output on Veterinary Medicine, The total outputobserved in the study is 4715 during the period. The analyses bring out the fact that the USA isranked to be the first and it has given the producing of 1249(26.5%) records on veterinarymedicine, and the USA is considered to the most productive country is brought out research. Thesecond rank is occupied by Brazil which has brought out 416(8.8%) publications on veterinarymedicine. The third rank to Germany. It has reflected with 415(8.8%) publication output. Indiaranks to the 24th in order. The output of India is accounted for 51.Figure: 7.1 Country wise Distribution of Veterinary Medicine (Top Ten)642