Impact of Research Collaboration on Growth of Literature in Geology: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

The paper attempts to derive nature of growth of literature in Geology during 1987 to 1996, type of collaboration among authors and the trend of growth during this period degree of collaboration among various categories of authors, correlation of the growth of various categories of authors and impacat of collaboration on growth of literature. From the study of five very old journals of Geology it was noticed that the increase in collaboration and simultaneously decrease in the amount of publication verifies that subject Geology is a quite a fully developed field of study. It is therefore, concluded that in a highly developed field, although the number of collaborative publications are more, the rate of growth of publications is low.