Current Science

Marcin Kozak ¹, Olesia Iefremova ², Mateusz Stopa ², James Hartley ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Sucharskiego 2, 35-225 Rzeszow, PL
2 Department of Social Sciences, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Sucharskiego 2, 35-225 Rzeszow, PL
3 School of Psychology, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, GB

Abstract

Multidisciplinary science journals include a few papers in economics. However, very few papers in economics appear in Current Science, itself a multidisciplinary journal. This article reports the results obtained from our analysis of the possible reasons for this situation. A study of almost 6500 articles from the journal's archives led us to the conclusion that the proportion of the journal's papers in the field of economics is very small, less than 0.5%. Thus we conducted an e-mail survey with 43 Indian authors publishing in Indian economics journals, asking them whether or not they had submitted any manuscript to Current Science and what were the reasons for this decision. Then, following a quantitative analysis, we constructed a model that represented the different argumentation strategies used by our sample of authors. Our main conclusion is that it is a lack of communication between economics researchers and the journal itself that creates disciplinary gaps in the multidisciplinary nature of Current Science.

Keywords

Dissemination of Scientific Results, International Acknowledgement, Multidisciplinary Journals.

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Olesia Iefremova ¹, Daniel Sas ², Marcin Kozak ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Social Sciences, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Sucharskiego 2, 35-225 Rzeszow, PL
2 Research Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, Pomologiczna 18, 96-100 Skierniewice, PL
3 Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Suchaskiego 2, 35-225 Rzeszow, PL

Abstract

International collaboration is becoming more important for modern science. Among others, it is reflected in authorships of scholarly articles. We studied internationality of Current Science based on internationality of its authors. We analysed articles based on their authors, taking into account foreign authors, co-authorship between countries. We did it for various article types as well as all articles taken together, with the help of Web of Science data as well as data from the journal's web page. Most articles (87%) were written by authors affiliated to Indian institutions. Citation analysis of most highly-cited articles based on citation counts and co-authorship patterns showed that only one article from top five articles was internationally co-authored. Word cloud of Current Science titles shows that the journal is focused on India.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Citation Patterns, International Scientific Collaboration, National Journals, Scientific Journals Evaluation, Word Cloud.

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