Seed science literature on Nigeria, India, Australia, United Kingdom and United States: a comparative study of author collaboration

Abstract

The study compares author collaboration in the periodical literature of seed science on Nigeria, India, Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America. The study was based on the literature of seed abstracted in the 1993–1995 issues of Seed Abstracts. However, it was found that both the annual rates as well as the accumulation rates for the period of each of the five countries studied was generally high, although the figures obtained for the United States of America and the United Kingdom were higher than those of Australia, India and Nigeria. The study concludes that the literature of seed science is dominated by multi‐authored papers and that there is a trend towards collaboration in the countries studied.

Citation

Harande, Y.I. (1997), "Seed science literature on Nigeria, India, Australia, United Kingdom and United States: a comparative study of author collaboration", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 49 No. 3, pp. 61-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051449