Bibliometric Study of Textiles Research Literature of IJFTR

Abstract

This bibliometric study of ‘Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Technology’ (IJFTR) was undertaken to understand the year-wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern of articles and geographical distribution of affiliations of the authors of articles, to calculate the average number of authors per article and to identify the top authors in terms of articles contributed. Based on the data collected for the study, it has been found that the number of articles published every year increased, that multiauthored articles outnumbered single-authored articles indicating a collaborative research and publishing pattern, that share of authors affiliated in India was about two-third of all authors with authors from as many as 23 countries contributing an article. The average number of authors per article was 2.94, and, Das, A. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India) was the top author with as many as 14 article contributions.