Indian Journal of Gender Studies: A Citation Analysis in Context to Women's Studies Literature

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the citation behavior and citation use pattern of Women's Studies researchers and authors. This study explores the results of the citation analysis of Indian Journal of Gender Studies. The major objective of the study is to find out the distribution of citation articles wise, most cited sources, chronological distribution of journal, most cited journals and authorship pattern of articles appeared in this journal from 1994 to 2008. Total 5529 citations appended in the186 articles which related to women's issues and published in this period. The results reveal that books are the highly cited source accounted with 3051(55.18%) and journals occupies second rank with 1471 (26.61%) citations. Study indicates that highest citations 2376 (42.97%) have occurred during the 1991-2000 year and the period 1751-1850 occurred only six (0.11%). Citations. The study analyses that 4456 (80.59%) citations are single authored and one (0.02%) citation was by nine authored. This study is dominated by solo authorship pattern.