Analysis of Authorship Pattern in the Field of Lung Infection in Adult Literature

Abstract

This study helps a bibliometric analysis of the authorship pattern in the field of Lung Infection in adult literature in the MEDLINE database which covered in PubMed. The years i.e. from the year 2000 to 2019 considered for this study. A total number of 34308 papers were published in the study period. A total of 97.2% of papers are concealed by multi-authors’ papers. The ratio of single and multi-authors’ papers is 1:38 in the field of Lung Infection in adult. The year-wise Degree of Collaboration (DC) displays the ratio in-between 0.94 to 0.99 in the field of Lung Infection in adult. It shows that the multi-authors’ papers are more in the field of Lung Infection in adult. The values of Co-Authorship Index (CAI) for single and two authored papers were higher in the first block and declined in the other three blocks in Lung Infection in adult literature. At the same time, the value of Co-Authorship Index (CAI) for more than two authors’ papers was lower in the first block and higher in the fourth block period in Lung Infection in adult literature. The result of this study shows that the collaboration in the field of Lung Infection in adult research. It also shows that it is in an increasing trend in recent years. The average Collaborative Co-efficient (CC) has been reached at 0.64 which also shows large number of papers was by multiple authors.