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Associate Librarian
Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, Naihati, Pin- 743165, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
Dr. Tunga is serving as a ‘College Librarian’ with Associate Rank at Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, Naihati-743165, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India from November, 1998, before that he served as ‘Project Assistant’ at Library, Documentation & Information Science Division of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata in 1997. Dr. Tunga obtained Ph. D. degree from Department of Library & Information Science (DLIS), University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal in 2015. He has experience in teaching as Guest Teacher in DLIS, University of Kalyani since 1999 and as Counselor in DLIS, Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU) in the Personal Contact Programme (PCP) of B.L.I.Sc. since 2009. He guided 17 M.L.I.Sc. Dissertations submitted to DLIS, University of Kalyani, NSOU and IGNOU. He has 56 Research Publications in various National and International Journals and Conferences, and 4 Books to his credit in the field of LIS.
M. COM., B. Ed., M. Lib. Sc., Ph. D. in Library and Information Science
Bibliometric Studies, Webometric Studies, Scientometric Analysis, E-Resource Management, Library Statistics, Library Automation
Scopus Publications
Scholar Citations
Scholar h-index
Scholar i10-index
Santosh Kumar Tunga
The Research Publication
The present study is to analyze citation pattern of Economica, New Series as a source journal in order to determine the application of Lotka’s law and author productivity in the economic literature. It is an international journal devoted to research in all branches of economics. The article covers 8347 citations appended to 302 articles appeared in volume 74, number 393 to volume 83, number 432 during the year 2007 to 2016. Findings indicate that 10 volumes (40 issues) of Economica, New Series contained 8347 citations in 302 articles which mean that average number of citations appeared 208.675 citations in each issue. Major forms of literature are journal articles 5328 (63.831%) and followed by books 2211 (26.489%) citations. Out of 5328 journal citations 1013 (19.013%) citations are single authored journals and 4315 (80.987%) citations are multi-authored journal. The Lotka’s law is not suitable for the economic literature of author productivity distribution.