COLLABORATION PATTERN IN CRYPTOGRAPHY RESEARCH OUTPUT (1976 – 2015): A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

The Collaboration authorship pattern of research has been given high priority specifically on scientific subject domain. Scientometric analysis has been adopted to quantify the research output. In this paper Cryptography research output has been taken up for the study. Cryptography is the science of writing in secret code and is an ancient art. To analyse the authorship pattern of research output, 40 years publications data from 1976 to 2015 collected from Scopus database. A total of 1,21,697 records were identified in the field of “Cryptography”, of which 1,18,873 records (97.68%) are directly related to Cryptography. The solo research paper can be seen only 14.7%. The collaborative research works out to 84.3% and only 1.0% of papers from anonymous. 1,18,873 papers were contributed by 3, 44,703 authors. Nearly 90% of publications were appeared during the period of 2002 and 2015. On an average 2972 articles were published per year during the study period of 40 year i.e. 1976-2015. 50.2% of articles were conference papers and nearly 45.2% of publications were Journal articles. In general this paper enumerates the patterns of authorship, intensity of research-collaboration and measures the collaboration-index in this particular domain by using various authorship pattern indicators