Lotka's Law and Pattern of Author Productivity in the Field of Brain Concussion Research: A Scientometric Analysis

TL;DR

This scientometric study analyzes publication patterns in brain concussion research from 2008 to 2017, focusing on author productivity, collaboration metrics, and Lotka's Law to understand research dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of author productivity and collaboration patterns in brain concussion research using Lotka's Law and various collaboration indices.

Findings

Author productivity follows Lotka's Law.

High collaboration levels observed in publications.

Growth trend in publications over the years.

Abstract

The present study deals a scientometric analysis of 8486 bibliometric publications retrieved from the Web of Science database during the period 2008 to 2017. Data is collected and analyzed using Bibexcel software. The study focuses on various aspect of the quantitative research such as growth of papers (year wise), Collaborative Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Co-authorship Index (CAI), Collaborative Co-efficient (CC), Modified Collaborative Co-Efficient (MCC), Lotka's Exponent value, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (K-S Test).