PUBLISHING TRENDS IN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY

The aim of this study was to explore the scientometric analysis of the ‘Journal of Management’ for a period of six years starting from 2006-2011. This journal is published by Sage publications with high impact factor. The study intended to examine the year-wise distribution of contributions, the pattern of authorship, degree of collaboration, relative growth rate, and doubling time. Analysis of the study showed the increasing and decreasing trend in research publishing. Degree of collaboration in the Journal of Management was high with value of 0.87. The Relative Growth Rate has increased from 0.72 to 1.68; and the Doubling Time decreased from 0.96 to 0.41.