A Study of Authorship Patterns and Collaborative Research in Planner, 2010-2016

ABSTRACT This paper presents a bibliometric study of PLANNER (Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region) during the period of 2010-2016. It is a series of conventions and has completed 10th convention last year (2016). This paper deals with 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th conventions; those are organized in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, respectively. A total of 187 research contributions and 362 others were examined by growth of contributions by year, growth of authors by year, authorship patterns, author productivity and degree of collaboration. Average number of authors per paper is 1.936. The highest number of author productivity, i.e., 0.517. The average degree of author collaborated in this study is 0.690, which clearly indicates its dominance upon multi authored contributions.