CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES RESEARCH (IJVASR): A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

The Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research published 235 research articles, which were subjected to a scientometric analysis (IJVASR). Six volumes of the journal, including 30 issues from 2016 to 2020, were evaluated for this study. Contribution levels, authorship patterns, author productivity, average article length, and average keyword density were all investigated. Only 20 of the 235 contributions were single-authored, with the remainder being multi-authored and including an average degree of collaboration of 0.91 and a week of collaboration between the authors. The increasing tendency of co-authored publications was highlighted by the pattern of coauthorship. According to the research, author productivity is 0.26.


INTRODUCTION
A research journal has been published by the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) in Chennai since 1972. TANUVAS is an Educational, Research, and Development Institution founded in 1989 with its headquarters in Chennai. Cheiron was the name of the journal in its early years. The research journal's current title is "Indian Publication of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research" (IJVASR). Every year, the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Chennai publishes this journal bimonthly.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The primary goal of this study is to examine the findings of the Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research, which will be published bimonthly between 2016 and 2020. The research concentrates on the following goals in great detail: • To map the year wise distribution of papers • To examine the authorship pattern and author productivity • To determine the degree of collaboration • To find the average length of papers • To find the average keywords

METHODOLOGY
The data for the five years (2016-2020) was acquired by searching the Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research database for the term "Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research" in the title field. The online database contains information from 2015 to 2020.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The data was reviewed and presented using a variety of statistical methodologies, including tables, from the Indian published database on Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research.

YEAR WISE DISTRIBUTION OF PAPERS
The distribution of research articles published in the Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research from 2016 to 2020 is shown in Table 1.

AUTHORSHIP PATTERN
Multi-author papers accounted up nearly 90% of the total number of papers, as seen in Table 2. Double-authored papers account for the most papers (27), accounting for 11.49 percent of the total, followed by three-authored articles (44, accounting for 18.72 percent of the total). Four authors published 21.28 percent of the papers. Five authors were responsible for 19.15 of the articles that were published. The remaining 20.85% of papers were co-authored by more than five people. However, the author pattern in the publication indicates that the team size was two to four people.  Table 3 shows the data on authorship patterns year by year. In terms of singleauthored contributions, 2018 had the most with six, and 2016 had the least with one. With eight double-authored contributions, 2016 is the year with the most. The years 2017, 2018, and 2020 have the most three, four, and five written contributions, with 11 each. With thirteen submissions from more than five authors, the year 2020 has the most.

AUTHOR PRODUCTIVITY
The output of authors is seen in Table 4. As indicated in the table, the average number of authors per publication for the 235 papers is 4.18. The average number of authors per article in 2016 and 2018 is nearly comparable when compared to the total average number of writers per post. The average productivity per author was 0.24 between 2016 and 2020. The years 2016 and 2018 had roughly comparable productivity per author when compared to the average productivity. Productivity was calculated using the formula below.

DEGREE OF COLLABORATION
To determine the strength of collaboration, Subramanyam K devised the following formula (DC).
Where DC = Degree of collaboration N m = Number of Multiple authored papers N 2 = Number of Single authored papers The degree of collaboration between writers is shown in Table 5 by year. The percentage of people that collaborate fluctuates between 0.87 and 0.95. The average degree of collaboration in the journal from 2016 to 2020 was 0.91, showing that there is a higher level of collaboration in the journal.  Table 6 shows that 235 publications with a total page count of 1629 (average 6.93 pages per article) were published between 2016 and 2020. The articles were 6.02 pages on average, with a minimum of 6.02 pages. The year 2020 has the greatest average page per paper at 7.36 pages per paper, while the year 2016 has the lowest average page per paper at 6.02.  Table 7 shows that 802 keywords have been appended to 235 papers. The average keyword for the publication changed between 2.02 and 4.58 between 2016 and 2020. The year 2020 has the highest average keyword per paper, at 4.58, while the year 2017 has the lowest average keyword per paper, at 2.02. The average number of keywords per article is 3.41.

FINDINGS
The research's findings are listed below.
• The maximum number of papers will be published in 2020, while the fewest will be published in 2016. • During the study period, the number of research publications provided by many authors was the highest. • The percentage of people that worked together was 0.91.
• Author productivity is 0.24, while the average number of authors per manuscript is 4.18. • The average length of a paper is 6.93 pages.
• 3.41 keywords per paper is the average.

CONCLUSION
According to the research, the majority of publications are written by many writers. 6.93 is the average page length, which is excellent for research papers. The degree of collaboration indicates that there is a high level of collaboration. The average co-authorship index for all authors reflects the journal's global average and the improving trend of co-authored papers. According to the findings, S. Senthil Kumar produced 11 papers, the most of any author, and some writers have written articles in the journal (5,6,7,10).