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A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY ON IEEE / ACM TRANSACTIONS
ON NETWORKING
V.Swarnamugi1 and J.Santhi2
1. Research Scholar, Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University,Coimbatore
e-mail: [email protected]
2. Librarian, Arumugam Pillai Seethai Ammal College, Thiruppathur Sivagangai(dt)
e-mail: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
The Scientometric studies are one of the most important research methods of publication on
science and engineering technology. It is frequently used to assess the research publication
and to generate information that could be used by policy maker and experts. It is quantitative
study of the research literature on a topic and it is used to identify patterns of publication
authorship and secondary journal coverage to get an insight into growth of knowledge on that
topic. The purpose of this study is to investigate the scientometric analysis of the journal of
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for selected six year between 2005-2010.
Keywords : Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, authorship pattern, citation analysis, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking
1. Introduction
Systematic development of quantitative and evaluative science studies since the mid-20th century.
Pritchard (1969)1 defined the term bibliometrics is “the application of mathematical and statistical methods to
books and other media of communication. The scientometric is a referred to a branch of science. It is one of
the sub fields of Bibliometric. Nalimov and Mulchenko (1969) defined this term “The application of those
quantitative methods which are dealing with the analysis of science viewed as an information process”. It has
developed tools to quantify that part of research output, which is documented in the framework of scholarly
communication. scientometric researcher often attempt to measure the evaluation of scientific domain, the
impact of scholarly publication, the pattern of authorship and the process of scientific knowledge production.
2. Source of Journal
The Journal of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is one of the foremost research journals in
the communication and networking field. It is published bimonthly online electronic journal. It is published
cosponsored by the IEEE Communications society, IEEE computer society and the ACM (Association for
computing Machinery).this journal covers the subject like network architecture and design, communication
protocols, network software, network technologies, network services and applications and network operation
management. The scope of journal includes all topics on communication and networking. The present study
aims to explore the scientometric analysis of the research work on IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking
selected six year published article period between 2005 to 2010.
3. Review of Literature
The review of literature have been studied by several authors analyzed the contributions of different
journal of various fields. According to Thanuskodi (2010) the majority of articles of bibliometric study
contain bibliometric references to journal, books, conference proceedings, dissertations etc. Neerja verma,
etal (2009)5 to analyze the authorship pattern, subject wise analysis of articles, citation pattern and length of
articles of contributions published the article in the journal of Annals of Library and Information
Studies,2007.54;106-111.the analysis show s that majority of the articles in the journal are two authored and
majority of the contributions are from new Delhi. 85 contributions have up to 10 citations.
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In this paper, an attempt has been made to analysis the contributions to journal of IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking published during the year 2005 -2010, in order to explore the author pattern,
citation analysis and country wise authorship. This study covers the 750 articles of 36 issues published.
4. Objectives of the study
The key objectives of the present study are to determine the following purposes.
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To identify the year wise contributions of articles.
To observe the authorship pattern for a period of study
To determine the length of articles
To find out the number of reference in the articles
To discover the country-wise distribution of articles
6. Methodology and limitation:
The required data have been collected from the IEEE EXPLORE website of IEEE/ACM Transaction on
networking pertaining to period from 2005-2010. 36 issues of 6 volumes from 2005-2010 have been selected
for the study. These data were organized, calculated, tabulated, analyzed and presented by using simple
arithmetic and statistical methods in order to arrive for its result.
7. Analysis and Interpretations:
7.1. Year-wise distribution of articles
Table:1Year-wise distribution of articles
Year
Vol. No
No of Issues
No of
Contribution
2005
13
6
106
14.14
2006
14
6
107
14.27
2007
15
6
124
16.53
2008
16
6
112
14.93
2009
17
6
151
20.13
2010
18
6
150
20
Total
6
36
750
100
Percent
Table -1 depicts the number of research paper published from 2005-2010. The study shows that the
highest numbers of 151 (20.03%) articles were published in the year 2009. The lowest numbers of
106(14.14%) articles were published in the year 2005.in all 750 research papers were published during 20052010.the journal on average publishes about 125 articles per issue. the number of papers published each year
is not consistent and there is in rise in the number of papers in the year 2009.
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Figure: 7.1 Year-wise distributions of articles
7.2. Year - Wise Authorship Pattern
Table-2 Year-wise Authorship Pattern
Authorship
Single
Multiple
Author
Year
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Total
Percent
101
103
121
106
146
144
721
96.01
5
106
4
107
3
124
7
113
5
151
6
150
30
751
3.99
100
The authorship pattern was analyzed to determine the percentage of single author, multiple authors
data were published in table-2 which reveals that multiple authored contributions dominated this field of
research. Single authored contribution accounts for 30 papers (3.99%), multiple authors are 721 (96.01%).
Figure: 7.2 Year - Wise Authorship Pattern
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76.3. Length of Articles
Table-3 Length of Articles
Year
Pages
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Total
6_10
2
10
6
9
6
5
38
1_5
1
11_15
103
_
1
97
_
117
103
_
145
145
2
710
Percent
0.27
5.07
94.66
Total
106
107
124
112
151
150
750
100
The length of articles is shown in table-3 where it is found that 710 (94.66%) articles had page length
in the range 11-15 pages followed by 38 (5.07%) articles in the range of 6-10 pages. and remaining 2 (0.27%)
articles have the length of 1-5 pages.
7.4: Year-wise Distribution of Citations
Year
Table-4 Year-wise Distribution of Citations
No. of Citations
Percent
2006
3010
13.69
2008
3304
2010
4630
2005
2007
2946
13.4
3402
2009
4691
Total
21983
15.48
15.03
21.34
21.06
100
The references provided by the authors at the end of their articles are the basis of citation analysis.
Citation traces a connection between two documents, one which cites and other which is cited. For the period
under study (2005-2010), in all 21983 citations were found appended to 750 papers. from table -4 it is clear
that highest number of citations appeared in the year 2009 i.e., 4691 which is 21.34 percent of total number of
citations contributed which is followed by 4630 (21.06%) citations that appeared in the year 2010. The year
2005 recorded least number of citations i.e., 2946 (13.4%).
Figure: 4 Year-wise Distributions of Citations
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Table-5: Country wise contributions
Table:5 Country wise contributions
Sl:No
Country
Total no of contributions
Percent
1
USA
1373
61.43
2
Canada
94
4.21
3
Italy
80
3.58
4
China
69
3.08
5
France
63
2.82
6
Israel
61
2.73
7
U.K
49
2.19
8
Switzerland
45
2.01
9
Taiwan
37
1.66
10
Hong Kong
36
1.61
11
Germany
34
1.52
12
Australia
34
1.52
13
India
31
1.39
14
Japan
29
1.3
15
Korea
28
1.25
16
Singapore
24
1.07
17
Irland
19
0.85
18
Greece
16
0.72
19
Belgium
16
0.72
20
Netherlands
14
0.63
21
Sweden
12
0.54
22
Norway
8
0.36
23
Spain
7
0.31
24
Brazil
6
0.27
25
South Korea
5
0.22
26
Hungary
5
0.22
27
Turkey
5
0.22
28
Denmark
4
0.18
29
Poland
4
0.18
30
Thailand
4
0.18
31
Cyprus
3
0.13
32
Iran
2
0.09
33
Jordan
2
0.09
34
Portugal
2
0.09
35
Uruguay
2
0.09
36
SouthiArabea
1
0.045
37
Serbia
1
0.045
38
Parague
1
0.045
39
Malasiya
1
0.045
40
Macedonia
1
0.045
41
Napal
1
0.045
42
Kuwait
1
0.045
43
Island
1
0.045
44
Egypt
1
0.045
45
Croatia
1
0.045
46
Columbia
1
0.045
47
Bangaladesh
1
0.045
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An attempt has been made to study the geographical distribution of contributors. A list of top 47
countries which contributed majority of papers to the journal is given in table-5. It is revealed from table-5
that majority of contributors were from U.S.A. with 1373 (61.43%) contributors, followed by Canada with 94
(4.21%), Italy with 80 (3.58%) contributors. India stood at 12th position with 1.39 percent (31 papers)
contributions.
8. Findings of the study:
The analysis examined and discovered the following major findings and conclusions.
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It was identified that the highest number of contributions i.e., 151 (20.03%) were published in the
year 2009 whereas the minimum number of 106(14.14%) was published in the year 2005.
Out of total number of 750 journal articles, the highest number of contributions i.e., 721 (96.01%)
have been contributed by multiple authors.
Out of 750 articles published with highest 710 (94.66%) articles had page length in the range 11-15
pages.
The maximum articles were contributed by author from USA 1373(61.43)followed by
Canada94(4.21) is the second position,
Out of 21983 reference, the highest number of citations 4691(21.34%) was in the year 2009
9. Conclusion
Scientometrics is the analysis of structure of literature using various tools counting, rank frequency
distributions, and citation analysis and although the structure of literature is basis to all disciplines. It is
particularly important in the area of information retrieval. The journal has published 750 articles during the
period of study. The maximum numbers of contributions are multiple authors with 721 (96.01%). The present
study reveals that majority of the contributions appear under USA. the study revealed that maximum number
of citations accounted in the period 2005-2010, 4691(21.34%).moreover the present study overview on actual
published result of the work of scientist in the journal “IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking” during the
study period.
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