REFERENCING PATTERN IN SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE RESEARCHERS OF CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE, VELLORE, INDIA

Abstract

Research productivity is a measure to assess the efficacy of research processes with respect to the two parameters namely quantity and quality.  The quality of research productivity is based on various parameters such as the impact of the publications that is measured in terms of citations, the impact factor of the journals where the papers are published, the references and the referencing pattern of the publications.  The main aim of this paper is to analyse the referencing pattern of researchers of Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.  The findings of the study show that the average number of references to a research paper by researchers of CMC, Vellore is 6.  As regards to the referencing pattern, it is found that the percentage of references to current 5 years period is 33.1%.  That is, nearly one third of the references appended to the research papers published by researchers of CMC, Vellore belong to the recent current five years.