A Scientrometric Study Of Computer Science Literature (ACM)

Scientomentrics was the result from statistical studies of bibliographies and databases. In the present context, scientometrics is a type of research method used in the library and information science for measuring the production and dissemination of different branches of human knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge. In order to trace the growth of literature on computer science, the study on aspects like -Growth of ACM¿s journals and distribution of literature; chronological distribution of literature of ACM journals; growth of trust areas study in the computer science; and growth of research workers in the computer science; keywords distribution and citation analysis was conducted. It has been noticed that China has been growing fast as compare to India in computer science. A large number of papers contributed by the highly productive authors were in collaboration or joint authorship. The distribution of keywords shows that the studies have been conducted in a large number of areas of study in computer science.