Mapping of Indian Social Science Literature

• Published in: Collnet journal of scientometrics and information management Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 61 - 80
• Main Authors: Sangam, S. L., Mogali, Shivaranjini S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02-01-2014
• Subjects: Author Productivity; Growth of Literature; Mapping of science; Ranking of Journals; Scientific Productivity
• ISSN: 0973-7766; 2168-930X
• DOI: 10.1080/09737766.2014.916861

In this paper an attempt has been made to map social science literature. The mapping of knowledge domains has been done in order to understand the positions of its various subfields and their relative position. The Social Science forms a very vast field and comprises many of subfields or disciplines. The different schemes of classification systems have been used to locate the position of each subject which comes under social science namely DDC, CC, UDC, and Web of Science. The visual representation of the same has been depicted in order to understand the relation of each sub-disciplines of social science. The modeling Growth of articles, Author Productivity, Collaborative measures, Ranking of Journals and Productivity of Institutions and other indicators have been used to map the literature.