Scientometric observations of Authorship Trends and Collaborative Research on DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology

The present study has been made an attempt to measure the quantitative research out of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology journal during the period between 2007 and 2013. It is observed from the analysis that the maximum number of research output were written by a multiple authors. The highest author productivity is 130 in the year 2012 and the lowest author productivity is 58 in 2007. The majority of 181 contributions have been contributed by multi-authored and the remaining 121 contributions by solo authors. It shows that the highest number of contributions were multi authored papers. It is found that that the degree of collaboration ranges from 0.36 to 0.77 and the average degree of collaboration is 0.59.