Analysis of Contributions to Defence Science Journal

Abstract

Defence Science Journal has a prominent place in the  dissemination of Defence Research & Development information all over the world. Bibliometric analysis of papers published in the Defence Science Journal during the years 1997 to 2006 has been presented in this paper. Attempt has been made to study the 10 volumes of this journal on the basis of different parameters, viz., year-wise distribution of the papers, authorship pattern, average number of references per paper in the journal, average length of the papers, institute-wise distribution of papers, major  contributors, subject-wise distribution of the papers, and  country-wise distribution
of papers.