First decade of Jihat Al-Islam: a statistical analysis

Abstract

Bibliometrics is statistical analysis of written publications. The paper presents the bibliomatic analysis of research journal: Jihat Al-Islam (2007-2017). Data were collected for study from printed volumes and PDF files of the research journal for selected period of ten years. Total numbers of 318 scholarly items were analyzed from different aspects to find out volume wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern, and gender wise distribution, ranking of authors, length of articles, cited documents per article, country and city wise and subject wise contribution of authors. The study revealed that articles published in the journals are male dominant; Pakistani authors contribute more as compared to foreign authors. A reasonable number of articles are of length 21-30 pages, followed by 41-50 pages. Majority of the articles are single authored, female contribution is minimal.