PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(V)/ 64-70 /11

AUTHOR : Nandeesha B and Khaiser Jahan  Begum

TITLE: PUBLICATION TRENDS IN AUDIOLOGY RESEARCH: A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

ABSTRACT:The paper reports on scientometric study of 1382 publications on Audiology research conducted over the years 1989 to 2016. The study analyses literature growth trends, which shows an initiation of potential growth of research in the field of Audiology since 1989. It main objective of the study is to determine different forms of documents; author productivity; country-wise productivity, language breakup, institution-wise productivity, year-wise growth of literature, ranking of journals etc. along with review of related areas of scientometrics research. The results indicate that journal papers account for 1180 (85.38%), with the journal ‘International Journal of Audiology’ being the top ranking, scoring 135 (9.77%) papers. USA has authored maximum number of 507 (36.69%) papers. ‘University of Pretoria’ contributed 32 (2.32%) papers. The highest number (144; 10.42%) of papers published and maximum citations scored 1739 in the year 2016.

KEYWORDS: Audiology; Research Publication; Ranking of Periodical, Productivity of Author Production; Universities 

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