Citation Analysis of PhDs Awarded in Public Administration and Political Science by Punjabi University Patiala

Abstract

This research paper presents the use of different forms of literature by the Ph. D. researchers of Department of Political Science and Department of Public Administration, Punjabi University, Patiala. It is assessed by analyzing the resources cited in the PhD theses awarded by Punjabi University, Patiala during 2015-2019. The different bibliographic forms of the references have been analyzed in order to find out the year-wise submission, average citations per thesis, authorship pattern, chronology, use of electronic resources, and format of citations in both the subjects under study. Ranked list of journals for both the subjects have been prepared to identify core journals. Bradford Multipliers have been calculated and application of Bradford’s Law of Scattering has also been tested for both the subjects.