Authorship Pattern Of Mycology Research Output At Global Perspective: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

The study examines Mycology Research in Global level as revealed by the scholarly publication indexed in web of Science database for a period of thirty years from 1989 to 2018.It was seen that the analyses included research growth, author productivity, authorship pattern, Geographical distribution of the literature, citation analysis rank, global publications’ share, citation impact, h index , cited references research output, share of international collaborative papers and major collaborative partner countries and patterns of research communication. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 1765 research literatures published, 79.49% of them or published under the joint author of publications in Mycology research output. It is observed that author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka's law. This shows that team research is prevalent in the area of Mycology. It also analyses the characteristics of most productive authors and high cited papers.