Scientometric analysis of Metamorphosis: a Journal of Management Research

The paper presents a scientometric analysis of 200 research articles published in the journal, “Metamorphosis: a journal of management research” from its debut year 2002 to 2016, published in association with India’s one of the top management institutions, IIM Lucknow and with one of the most famous publishing house, Sage. The study focuses on various aspects of the journal such as the distribution of articles, annual growth rate, authorship pattern, authorship productivity, degree of collaboration, collaborative index, country-wise distribution of articles, citation analysis, etc. The study shows that most of the papers, 114 out of 200 (57%) were published by single authors where as 86 out of 200 (43%) were contributed by joint authors. Overall average Degree of Collaboration (DC), average Collaborative Index (CI) and average citation per paper were 0.43, 2.35 and 25.59 respectively. Remarkable collaborative contributors are from India with 81.65% sharing. The study may help those who wish to map the scientometric patterns of journals or institutions or an individual, etc.