SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF AUTHOR PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH OUTPUT IN BIODIVERSITY: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

ABSTRACT

The Study examines the Biodiversity in India as revealed in the database of web of science in the year of 1991-2017. It was seen that the analysis included author productivity, authorship pattern, degrees of collaboration, year wise Cited references, Relative growth rate, and doubling time. This study also verified Lotka's Inverse square law of author productivity, Price's Square root law, Pareto Principle (80·20 Rule).