Study of variations of citation-based parameters for selected Indian science journals

TL;DR

This study analyzes the Garfield Ratio, a citation-based metric, for twelve Indian science journals over twelve years to understand its variations and underlying regularities.

Contribution

The paper provides a longitudinal analysis of the Garfield Ratio for Indian journals, revealing its temporal variations and potential regularities.

Findings

Garfield Ratio varies over time for Indian journals.

The study identifies patterns in citation behavior across journals.

Insights into the stability of citation metrics over years.

Abstract

The ratio of the total number of citations to the total number of cited papers was predicted as a constant by Garfield. But, later he observed the changing nature of this constant over time. Scientometricians thus preferred to call it Garfield Ratio rather than Garfield Constant. The Garfield Ratio is a very well-known citation-based parameter, which actually indicates the average citation per cited article. However, Garfield still pointed out that behind this ratio some deeper regularity may be found. In this paper, an analysis of this indicator, the Garfield Ratio is attempted for twelve distinguished Indian science journals over twelve years time span ranging from 2009 to 2020.