254 DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, Vol. 38, No. 4, July 2018, pp. 254-258, DOI : 10.14429/djlit.38.4.12511  2018, DESIDOC Received : 02 January 2018, Revised : 20 March 2018 Accepted : 10 May 2018, Online published : 25 June 2018 Scientometric Analysis of Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research Simran Gupta # and Nabi Hasan $,* # Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra - 282005, India $ Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi - 110016, India * E-mail: nabihasan@gmail.com AbStRAct Scientometric analysis of 200 research article published in the journal, “Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research” from its debut year 2002 to 2016 is studied. The study focuses on various aspects of the journal such as the distribution of articles, annual growth rate, authorship pattern, authorship productivity, degree of collaboration, collaborative index, country-wise distribution of articles, citation analysis. The study shows that most of the papers, 114 out of 200 (57per cent) were published by single authors whereas 86 out of 200 (43 per cent) were contributed by joint authors. Overall average degree of collaboration, average collaborative index and average citation per paper were 0.43, 2.35, and 25.59, respectively. Remarkable collaborative contributors are from India with 81.65 per cent sharing. The study may help those who wish to map the scientometric patterns of journals or institutions or an individual. Keywords: Scientometric analysis; Mapping research; Authorship pattern; Degree of collaboration 1. IntRoductIon Scientometrics is a branch of the science, ‘Science of Science’. Haitun 1 treats Scientometrics, as a scientiic discipline, which performs reproducible measurements of scientiic activity. Now a days, scientometrics is one of the truly interdisciplinary research ield extended to almost all scientiic ields. For conducting this study, Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research has been taken into account. In this mapping study, the authors has discussed, analysed, and calculated different scientometric aspects by using scientometric tools such as the degree of collaboration, collaborative index, average author per paper. 2. LIteRAtuRe RevIew Alan Pritchard explained the bibliometrics as “the application of mathematical and statistical methods to books and other media of communication” 2 . Nalimov and Mulchenko 3 interpreted scientometrics as “the application of those quantitative methods which are dealing with the analysis of science viewed as an information process”. For conducting this study, the authors have reviewed many related research articles. Singh 4 has done a Scientometric analysis of Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics for the period from 2006-2010 using Web of Science database. He concluded that the maximum numbers of papers were published in joint authorship with 93.46 per cent where as merely 6.54 per cent papers were contributed as single authored. The author R. Kumar and the institution CSIR were the most proliic author and institution with 8.29 per cent and 3.2 per cent sharing respectively. 1.87 average citations per paper were noticed. Velmurugan and Radhakrishnan 5 conducted the scientometric study of Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science. In their study, they described that the highest numbers of contributions (75.36 per cent) were from joint authors and rest 24.64 per cent contributions were single authored. The country Malaysia placed irst with 31.84 per cent contribution whereas India placed third with 11.01 per cent contribution. The average author per paper, the average productivity per author and degree of collaboration was 2.36, 0.42 and 0.75 respectively during the period between 2008 to 2014. Navaneethakrishnan 6 in his study analysed that multiple authors published the maximum research papers. The degree of collaboration was progressively increased. It was 0.33 in the year 1962 and 0.80 in the year 2012. US collaborative contributors got the irst rank with 15.93 per cent contributions during the study span. A Scientometric analysis of 203 article published in Annals of Library and Information Studies has also been done by Velmurugan 7 for the years 2007 to 2012. He concluded that most of the contributions 88 (43.35 per cent) were by two authors, the highest number of contributions 43 (21.19 per cent) were in 2010 and the least number 27 (13.31 per cent) were published in 2012. Maximum research output 39(22.94 per cent) was related to the ‘User Studies’ subject ield and 37 articles were related to bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics. 3. obJectIveS The objectives of the study include: