Bibliometric Study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology from 1981-2018

Abstract

DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) is one of the most leading journals of
the LIS field and it is published by DESIDOC. It has recently finished very nearly 39 years of its publication.
The main objective of this study is to cover various aspects of the journal through Bibliometric analysis.
This paper presents a Bibliometric analysis of DJLIT during 1981-2018. During the period of 1981-2018,
total 990 full-length articles were published in a particular journal. This study cover various parameters like
distribution of full-length articles on yearly basis, category wise classification of the articles, authorship
pattern of the articles, degree of author’s collaboration, length of articles, the ranking of authors, etc. As a
result, the degree of collaboration in the DESIDOC Journal is 0.74, which clearly indicates the dominance
of multiple authors in its contributions.

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Bibliometric Study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Bibliometric Study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information
Technology from 1981-2018 Technology from 1981-2018
BAL RAM
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Sandeepa Yadav
BHU Varanasi India
, sandeepa.cl@bhu.ac.in
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Bibliometric Study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology from 1981-2018
Bal Ram (Dr.)
Librarian,
WIHG, DST, Ministry of S&T, Govt. of India
E-mail: balram@wihg.res.in
Sandeepa Yadav (Dr.)
Assistant Librarian,
BHU Varanasi India
E-mail: sandeepa.cl@bhu.ac.in
ABSTRACT
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) is one of the most leading journals of
the LIS field and it is published by DESIDOC. It has recently finished very nearly 39 years of its publication.
The main objective of this study is to cover various aspects of the journal through Bibliometric analysis.
This paper presents a Bibliometric analysis of DJLIT during 1981-2018. During the period of 1981-2018,
total 990 full-length articles were published in a particular journal. This study cover various parameters like
distribution of full-length articles on yearly basis, category wise classification of the articles, authorship
pattern of the articles, degree of author’s collaboration, length of articles, the ranking of authors, etc. As a
result, the degree of collaboration in the DESIDOC Journal is 0.74, which clearly indicates the dominance
of multiple authors in its contributions.
Keywords: Bibliometric study, Authorship pattern, Degree of Authors collaboration, Ranking of authors,
ClasCategory-wise the articles, Category-wise classification of the Articles.
1.INTRODUCTION
The term “Librametry” was first introduced in ASLIB conference held at Leamington Spa by DR. S. R.
Ranganathan in 1948. He utilized this idiom for statistical approach regarding the library and its services,
but the practice of using the quantitative technique for measuring records earlier than Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
was known as “Statistical Analysis”. The term “Statistical Analysis” was in common use earlier than the
term “Librametry”. In 1917 Cole and Eales graphically mapped the literature and called the method of
evaluation as “Statistical Analysis”. In 1923 Hulme studied the literature and referred the term as “statistical
bibliography”. Afterward, the term was coined as “bibliometrics” by Pritchard (1969). He states that
“bibliometric is a set of methods to quantitative analysis, scientific and technological literature” [1].
This article focuses on bibliometric study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information technology
(DJLIT) and this study reveals year wise growth of published articles from different countries, institutions,
universities, etc. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information technology is open access, peer-reviewed,
and bi-monthly journal. This journal publishes review papers, original research papers as well as a study on
many aspects related to the development of the LIS field. The journal also covers IT aspects that applied in
library activities, services and products [2]
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Numerous studies have been published in literature trying to deal with DESIDOC Journal of Library and
Information Technology’s bibliometric analysis for the period of 2001–2010 and 2001 to 2012.
None of these researches, however, used the 38-years time slot [3]. For instance Kevin, W. U. A. et.al. [4]
(2009) studied on “Bibliometric studies on single journals: a review”. The scope of this study focuses on 82
bibliometric studies which are based on single journals i.e. 62 studies cover unique titles published between

1998-2008. The analysis covers Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Medical
and Health Sciences. In present study the author sets some parameters like Journal publication
characteristics, indexing information, sampling, and bibliometric measures.
Sarwesh Pareek (2013) [5] published an article on “A Bibliometric analysis of the literature of IFLA Journal
during 2001-2010”. His study reveals the output of IFLA journal for 10 years. The best part of this paper is
that it also shows the data regarding contributors from the different geographical area, the result is that out
of 387 authors, 71 authors are from the USA i.e. (18.35 percent), UK 46(11.89 percent), South Africa
25(6.46 percent,) Canada and Germany 14(3.62 percent) each, are top five contributors.
C. Velmurugan (2013) [6] focuses his study on “Bibliometric analysis with special reference to authorship
pattern and collaborative research output of Annals of Library and Information Studies for the year 2007-
2012”. Through this paper, we know that in 2010 the highest number of papers was published i.e. 43 (21.19
percent) and minimum papers were contributed in 2012 i.e. 27 (13.31 percent). Among this out of 203
contributors 72 full -text articles (35.46 percent) have been contributed by single authors and 131 articles
(64.54 percent) contributed by multiple authors.
Padme Satish L. and Khaparde Vaishali (2016)[7] studies on “Bibliometric analysis of online information
review journal”. This study presents data on the distribution of articles on the basis of year and issue along
with this, it’s also discussed Geographical Distribution of the contributors of articles as well the data reveals
that 609 articles were contributed by researchers from 41 countries. Out of 41 countries, 408 i.e. 67% of
articles were contributed by five countries and they are Taiwan, Spain, USA, China, and Korea. Left 37
countries contributed 33% of the total contributed articles.
Lijina P (2018) [8] has published an article under the topic “A Bibliometric Study of International Journal of
Library and Information Science”. The study focuses on issue wise distribution of articles from 2012 to
2017. The study reveals that there is issue wise variation in a number of articles from 4 to 17. The maximum
number of articles 17 (10.56%) is in the issue no.3 of 2016 and the lowest number 4 (2.48%) is in the 2nd
issue of 2012 and 4th issue of 2017. This paper also highlights the state wise contribution of articles; the
data shows the number of articles published from Tamil Nadu (73.91%). Kerala (11.18%) and Karnataka
(10.56%) are in the second and third position. There exists a great difference between Tamil Nadu and the
rest of the states regarding the number of articles.
3 OBJECTIVES
The present study focuses on the analysis of publication trends in DESIDOC Journal of Library and
Information technology (DJLIT) during 1981-2018. The main objectives are
1. To identify the exact number of year -wise distribution of articles.
2. To examine the Authorship Pattern of the Articles.
3. To determine the Category wise classification of the papers.
4. To study the mean and median of full- length papers (length of articles).
5. To find out geographical distribution of articles Indian/foreign.
6. To study the author’s affiliation.

4. METHODOLOGY
For aforesaid study, I have taken 38 Volumes ( Vol 1 to 38) holds 210 issues of DESIDOC Journal of
Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) published during 1981-2018 have been taken for evaluation.
The data was collected from the DRDO website. The data consists of Bibliometric Study, Scientometric
Study, Webometric study, Case Study, Survey, research, Conceptual, Comparative, Viewpoint, Tech, and
review papers. Along with that Guest Editorials published in special and thematic issues has also included
in the analysis. The data were analyzed using MS Excel spreadsheet.
5. ANALYSES
The DESIDOC Journal has extracted all details of author(s), title, publication year, institution affiliation etc
of full-length articles published from 1981 – 2018 were recorded for the analysis.
5.1 Year wise distribution of the articles
Table 5.1 shows the exact number of articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information
Technology (DJLIT) during 1981-2018. It is manifest from table 5.1 that during 1981-2005 issues was not
regular. However 2006 onward, the journal has been coming out with 6 issues and with more papers. The
table also reveals that 70 papers (7.07 percent) i.e. maximum were published in 2012, and a minimum 01
paper (0.10 percent) was published in 1983. It is noted that the beginning issues i.e. from 1981 to 1984 the
articles were published by DESIDOC Directors and those articles consists of some informative information
regarding DESIDOC like Training Course in Reprography/Scientific Photography, Workshop on Universal
Decimal Classification, DRDO Silver Jubilee Celebrations etc.
Year
Vol. No.
Issue
Total
Percentage
of
articles
Cumulative
Total of
Articles
Cumulative
Percentage
of
Articles
Cumulative
Average
no. of
Articles
per Issue
1981
Vol 1
6
6
0.61
6
0.61
100
1982
Vol 2
5
5
0.51
11
1.11
100
1983
Vol 3
1
1
0.10
12
1.21
100
1984
Vol 4
5
5
0.51
17
1.72
100
1985
Vol 5
4
5
0.51
22
2.22
95.45
1986
Vol 6
5
5
0.51
27
2.73
77.78
1987
Vol 7
6
6
0.61
33
3.33
81.82
1988
Vol 8
5
7
0.71
40
4.04
80.00
1989
Vol 9
5
5
0.51
45
4.55
82.22
1990
Vol 10
6
7
0.71
52
5.25
82.69
1991
Vol 11
6
6
0.61
58
5.86
84.48
1992
Vol 12
6
10
1.01
68
6.87
80.88
1993
Vol 13
5
5
0.51
73
7.37
82.19
1994
Vol 14
6
8
0.81
81
8.18
81.48
1995
Vol 15
6
24
2.42
105
10.61
68.57
1996
Vol 16
6
28
2.83
133
13.43
58.65

1997
Vol 17
6
29
2.93
162
16.36
51.85
1998
Vol 18
6
28
2.83
190
19.19
47.37
1999
Vol 19
5
23
2.32
213
21.52
44.60
2000
Vol 20
5
15
1.52
228
23.03
43.86
2001
Vol 21
5
10
1.01
238
24.04
44.12
2002
Vol 22
5
15
1.52
253
25.56
43.48
2003
Vol 23
6
20
2.02
273
27.58
42.49
2004
Vol 24
6
14
1.41
287
28.99
42.51
2005
Vol 25
5
14
1.41
301
30.40
42.19
2006
Vol 26
6
18
1.82
319
32.22
41.69
2007
Vol 27
6
35
3.54
354
35.76
39.27
2008
Vol 28
6
54
5.45
408
41.21
35.54
2009
Vol 29
6
53
5.35
461
46.57
32.75
2010
Vol 30
6
48
4.85
509
51.41
30.84
2011
Vol 31
6
58
5.86
567
57.27
28.75
2012
Vol 32
6
70
7.07
637
64.34
26.53
2013
Vol 33
6
65
6.57
702
70.91
24.93
2014
Vol 34
6
63
6.36
765
77.27
23.66
2015
Vol 35
6
54
5.45
819
82.73
22.83
2016
Vol 36
6
51
5.15
870
87.88
22.18
2017
Vol 37
6
59
5.96
929
93.84
21.42
2018
Vol 38
6
61
6.16
990
100.00
20.71
5.2 Authorship Pattern of the Articles
The main aim of determining authorship pattern is that we get clear data about the percentage of single and
multiple authorship [9].Table 5.2 represents that majority of articles were published under single authorship
pattern i.e. 464 articles (46.87 percent) followed by two authorship mode (355 articles; 35.86 percent) and
three authorship mode (118 articles; 11.92 percent) followed by four authorship mode (36 articles; 3.64
percent) and five authorship mode (13 articles; 1.31 percent). Apart from that the articles published under
six or more than six authors (4 articles; 0.40 percent) were negligible.
Number of
Articles
Published
Number of the Articles Published (n=990)
1
2
3
4
5
6
and
More
Total
Articles
Total
Authors
Average
Authors
per
Articles
Single%
Joint
%
1981
6
-
-
-
-
-
6
6
1
10
90
1982
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
1
10
90
1983
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
1
10
90
1984
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
1
10
90
1985
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
1
10
90
1986
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
5
1
10
90
1987
6
-
-
-
-
-
6
6
1
10
90
1988
5
2
-
-
-
-
7
9
1.29
7.14
92.86
1989
3
2
-
-
-
-
5
7
1.4
6
94

1990
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
7
1
10
90
1991
5
1
-
-
-
-
6
7
1.17
8.33
91.67
1992
7
3
-
-
-
-
10
13
1.3
7
93
1993
3
1
1
-
-
-
5
8
1.6
6
94
1994
6
-
2
-
-
-
8
12
1.5
7.5
92.5
1995
18
6
-
-
-
-
24
30
1.25
7.5
92.5
1996
20
6
1
-
-
1
28
41
1.46
7.14
92.86
1997
22
5
1
-
-
1
29
41
1.41
7.59
92.41
1998
22
5
-
1
-
-
28
36
1.29
7.86
92.14
1999
20
2
1
-
-
-
23
27
1.17
8.70
91.30
2000
11
3
1
-
-
-
15
20
1.33
7.33
92.67
2001
6
3
1
-
-
-
10
15
1.50
6.00
94.00
2002
4
6
2
2
1
-
15
35
2.33
2.67
97.33
2003
8
8
4
-
-
20
36
1.80
4.00
96.00
2004
3
7
2
2
-
-
14
31
2.21
2.14
97.86
2005
4
5
2
3
14
32
2.29
2.86
97.14
2006
3
9
2
2
1
1
18
46
2.56
1.67
98.33
2007
19
7
6
2
1
-
35
64
1.83
5.43
94.57
2008
33
13
4
4
-
-
54
87
1.61
6.11
93.89
2009
20
19
11
2
1
-
53
104
1.96
3.77
96.23
2010
15
24
6
1
1
1
48
96
2.00
3.13
96.88
2011
22
26
7
2
1
-
58
108
1.86
3.79
96.21
2012
28
30
10
1
1
-
70
127
1.81
4.00
96.00
2013
30
25
8
2
-
-
65
112
1.72
4.62
95.38
2014
21
28
9
5
-
-
63
124
1.97
3.33
96.67
2015
17
25
10
1
1
-
54
106
1.96
3.15
96.85
2016
18
22
8
1
2
-
51
100
1.96
3.53
96.47
2017
16
34
6
2
1
-
59
115
1.95
2.71
97.29
2018
15
28
13
3
2
-
61
132
2.16
2.46
97.54
Total
464
355
118
36
13
4
990
1761
% of
Articles
46.87
35.86
11.92
3.64
1.31
0.40
Total
authors
464
710
354
144
65
24
5.3 Degree of Authors Collaboration
Before discussing the analysis part, the question is how to find out the degree of authors collaboration. For
this, there is one formula i.e. C = NM / (NM +NS)
Where, C = Degree of collaboration; NM = Number of multiple- authored papers; NS = Number of single-
authored papers. This formula was given by Subramanyam in 1983. On the basis of this formula table 5.3
reveals the overall degree of collaboration is 0.74 i.e., 464 articles are single -authored and 1297 articles are
multiple -authored. It is retrieved from the table that from 2003 to 2006, 2009 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018 the
degree of collaboration found high degree i.e., 0.78 - 0.93 percent. Therefore the degree of collaboration of
authors in DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) is 0.74, which clearly indicates
the dominance of multiple authors over single authors.

Year
No. of Authors per Article
Degree of Collaboration
Single
Multiple
1981
6
0
0
1982
5
0
0
1983
1
0
0
1984
5
0
0
1985
5
0
0
1986
5
0
0
1987
6
0
0
1988
5
4
0.44
1989
3
4
0.57
1990
7
0
0
1991
5
2
0.29
1992
7
6
0.46
1993
3
5
0.63
1994
6
6
0.50
1995
18
12
0.40
1996
20
21
0.51
1997
22
19
0.46
1998
22
14
0.39
1999
20
7
0.26
2000
11
9
0.45
2001
6
9
0.60
2002
4
31
0.89
2003
8
28
0.78
2004
3
28
0.90
2005
4
28
0.88
2006
3
43
0.93
2007
19
45
0.70
2008
33
54
0.62
2009
20
84
0.81
2010
15
81
0.84
2011
22
86
0.80
2012
28
99
0.78
2013
30
82
0.73
2014
21
103
0.83
2015
17
89
0.84
2016
18
82
0.82
2017
16
99
0.86
2018
15
117
0.89
Total
464
1297
0.74
5.4 Category wise classification of the Articles

Table 5.4 represents the data about the category wise classification of articles published during 1981-2018.
This study reveals that 343 (34.65 percent) full -length articles were published under research paper category
followed by this 175 papers (17.68 percent) published as a conceptual study. The third highest 147 (14.85
percent) articles belong to technical concepts. There are very few papers i.e. 02 (0.20 percent) published
under literature review category respectively.
Category Under which
Paper Published
No of Articles
%
Bibliometric Study
32
3.23
Scientometric Study
39
3.94
Webometric study
5
0.51
Case Study
53
5.35
Study
55
5.56
Survey
16
1.62
Research paper
343
34.65
Conceptual paper
175
17.68
Comparative study
27
2.73
View point
25
2.53
Review
6
0.61
Guest Editorial
46
4.65
Literature review
2
0.20
Technical Paper
147
14.85
DESIDOC
19
1.92
Total
990
100
5. 5 Ranking of Authors/No. of Authors
Table 5.5 represents the analyzed data regarding authors ranking. During 1981-2018 1761 authors have
contributed 990 full- length articles. If we elaborate the data in detail we find that 48 articles were
contributed by DESIDOC Director i.e. 2.73%, B.M. Gupta has contributed 41 articles i.e 2.33% along with
that C.K. Ramaiah has contributed 23 articles in this journal. 18 articles published under the name of S.M.
Dhawan followed by these 15 papers are contributed by Ashok Kumar and so on. Apart from that 909 other
authors have contributed 01 article each during the period of study. In nutshell, the data shows that the
percentage of single author’s contribution is higher than other authors i.e. 51.62 percent.
S. NO.
Name of Contributor
No. of Contributions
%
1
DESIDOC Director
48
2.73
2
B.M. Gupta
41
2.33
3
C.K. Ramaiah
23
1.31
4
S.M. Dhawan
18
1.02
5
Ashok Kumar
15
0.85
6
Alka Bansal
11
0.62
7
Mohinder Singh
11
0.62
8
Nine Autors
63
3.58
9
Eight Autors
16
0.91
10
Seven Autors
56
3.18

11
Six Autors
48
2.73
12
Five Autors
50
2.84
13
Four Autors
100
5.68
14
Three Autors
114
6.47
15
Two Authors
238
13.52
16
Single Authors
909
51.62
TOTAL
1761
100.00
5.6 Mean and Median page length of articles published by number of page
Table 5.6 discussed the data about page length of articles published by a number of pages during 1981-
2018. From the above tables, we know that 990 articles were published in 7172 pages. The arithmetic mean
of 990 articles are range from 3.29 – 12.40 and median of the page length of articles varied between 3-12.
According to the table, the minimum pages 04 were used in 1983 for 01 article and maximum 481 pages
were used in 2013 for 65 articles.
Year
Total Articles
Total pages for
articles
Mean page
length of articles
Median page
length of
article
1981
6
24
4
4
1982
5
20
4
4
1983
1
4
4
4
1984
5
18
3.6
4
1985
5
22
4.4
4
1986
5
27
5.4
5
1987
6
31
5.17
5
1988
7
23
3.29
3
1989
5
28
5.60
6
1990
7
31
4.43
4
1991
6
32
5.33
5
1992
10
60
6.00
6
1993
5
23
4.60
5
1994
8
50
6.25
6
1995
24
159
6.63
7
1996
28
217
7.75
8
1997
29
202
6.97
7
1998
28
231
8.25
8
1999
23
175
7.61
8
2000
15
122
8.13
8
2001
10
124
12.40
12
2002
15
154
10.27
10
2003
20
175
8.75
9
2004
14
107
7.64
8
2005
14
112
8.00
8
2006
18
152
8.44
8
2007
35
331
9.46
9
2008
54
418
7.74
8

2009
53
351
6.62
7
2010
48
410
8.54
9
2011
58
457
7.88
8
2012
70
413
5.90
6
2013
65
481
7.40
7
2014
63
443
7.03
7
2015
54
378
7.00
7
2016
51
341
6.69
7
2017
59
409
6.93
7
2018
61
417
6.84
7
Total
990
7172
7.24
7
%
100
5.7 Institution type with which the authors of articles were affiliated
Below table discussed data about the affiliation of an author whose articles were published during 1981-
2018. As per data maximum authors belongs to Academic/Institutes as they contributed 1177 articles (66.84
percent). Followed by these 467 articles (26.52%) from Research Institute/centre 63 articles (3.58%) are
from others and 31 articles (1.76%) are from Special /Public Library. Only 19 articles (1.08%) were
belonging to those authors who were associated with government departments.
Contributed by
No of Articles
%
Academic/ Institutes
1177
66.84
Special /Public Library
31
1.76
Government Department
19
1.08
Research Institute/centre
467
26.52
Others
63
3.58
Total
1761
100.00
5.8 Geographical distribution of the contributors
Bibliometric study regarding the geographical distribution of authors of DESIDOC journal gives some
interesting findings, as table 5.8 presents the clear picture that there are 1761 authors who represent 35
countries. Out of 1761 contributions, authors from India have been contributed 1576 (89.49 percent), USA
32 (1.82 percent), Nigeria 29(1.65 percent), Greece 15(0.85 percent), Saudi Arabia 14 (0.80 percent) and
United Kingdome 12 (0.68 percent), are top six contributors. It is found that authors from Germany, Egypt,
Boulder, Malaysia, Portugal, Kingdom of Swaziland, Slovenia, Belgium, West Bengal, UAE, Thailand,
Romania, New Zealand and Washington (USA) have contributed one article each. Apart from that 9 authors
are from Singapore, 7 are from Iran along with these 6 contributors are from South Africa, 5 are from
Australia, North Carolina, Taiwan, Arab world and, Bangladesh. Followed by these 4 authors are from
Turkey 3 are from Canada and Indonesia. Last but not the least 2 authors are from California, Oman, Sri
Lanka and Spain respectively. The geographical distribution of contributors is decided on the basis of
addresses of author’s affiliation that is given by them in the article.

Name of Country
No. of Contributions
% of Contributions
Rank
India
1576
89.49
1
USA
32
1.82
2
Nigeria
29
1.65
3
Greece
15
0.85
4
Saudi Arabia
14
0.80
5
UK
12
0.68
6
Singapore
9
0.51
7
Iran
7
0.40
8
South Africa
6
0.34
9
Australia
5
0.28
10
North Carolina
5
0.28
10
Taiwan
5
0.28
10
Arab
5
0.28
10
Bangladesh
5
0.28
10
Turkey
4
0.23
11
Canada
3
0.17
12
Indonesia
3
0.17
12
California (USA)
2
0.11
13
Oman
2
0.11
13
Sri Lanka
2
0.11
13
Spain
2
0.11
13
Germany
1
0.06
14
Egypt
1
0.06
14
Boulder
1
0.06
14
Malaysia
1
0.06
14
Portugal
1
0.06
14
Swaziland
1
0.06
14
Slovenia
1
0.06
14
Belgium
1
0.06
14
West Bengal
1
0.06
14
UAE
1
0.06
14
Thailand
1
0.06
14
Romania
1
0.06
14
New Zealand
1
0.06
14
Washington(USA)
1
0.06
14
Total
1761
100
6. CONCLUSION
On the basis of this bibliometric study we got to know that during 1981-2018 the journals has published 990
full length articles. The analysis reveals that the maximum number of articles were published in 2012 i.e.
70 papers (7.07 percent). As table 5.5 shows that 1761 authors has contributed 990 full length articles, from
1761 authors 48 articles were contributed by DESIDOC Director i.e. 2.73%, B.M. Gupta has contributed 41

articles i.e 2.33% along with that C.K. Ramaiah has contributed 23 articles in this journal. 18 articles
published under the name of S.M. Dhawan followed by these 15 papers are contributed by Ashok Kumar
and so on. As per data maximum authors belongs to Academic/Institutes as they contributed 1177 articles
(66.84 percent). Followed by these 467 articles (26.52%) from Research Institute/centre, 63 articles (3.58%)
are from others and 31 articles (1.76%) are from Special /Public Library. Only 19 articles (1.08%) were
belonging to those authors who were associated with government departments. Bibliometric study regarding
geographical distribution of authors of DESIDOC journal gives some interesting findings, as table 5.8
presents the clear picture that there are 1761 authors who represents 35 countries. Out of 1761 contributions,
authors from India have been contributed 1576 (89.49 percent) that is highest in number.
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