A descriptuve study of agricultural literature: a case of SJA

The Sarhad Journal of Agriculture (SJA) is published by the KPK Agricultural University (formerly NWFP Agricultural University), Peshawar since 1985. The present study has examined 2761 articles published in SJA during 1985-2009 in its 25 volumes. Research output in agricultural sciences published in the SJA was analyzed bibliometrically through this research. To this end, standard bibliometric indicators such as authorship patterns including amount of productivity, institutional affiliation, collaboration, and country of origin, along with topics covered, year-wise distribution of articles, number of citations used, and the number of pages per article were analyzed. The subject of the article and its facets were determined with the help of AGRIS thesaurus