Research Trends in Political Science Literature: A Study of Scientometric Analysis

This article analysed the various bibliometric components of the articles published in the political science Journal from 2005-2014. The study identifies research trend, characteristics growth and collaboration pattern of political science literature. The analysis of data reveals that the average growth rate increases at the rate of 1.043. Further, moderate degree of collaboration (0.495) is observed and average number of author per paper found to be 1.621. The relative growth rate of an articles increases gradually and correspondingly the values of Doubling time of the articles Dt(P) decreases. The maximum number of articles has been contributed by University (42.40%), the single author papers are more popular among south Asian journal of socio- political studies. The highest number of publications was published in the year 2009 (11.63%). Tamilnadu is the highest contributed state in the field of political science literature. Finally author verified observed data set through Kolmogorov smirnov test.

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Socio-Political Study, Authorship Pattern, Degree of Collaboration, Collaborative Research, Lotka’s Law, KS Test.