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The Bibliometric studies are on the subject of interdisciplinary and major subject in nature of the science to identify the pattern of publication, authorship and citation analysis. It is the vast area of distribution of literature by country-wise, subject-wise and language-wise. It is useful to identify the subject relationship, structure of knowledge and pattern of communication. The present study was carried out using 281 scholarly research articles published in the Defence Science Journal during the period 2002-2006, covered overall five years of articles.The data are collected from the Defence Science Journal. It is the area of Defence Science and Technology published from India by the Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi.The Index is available in the DRDO Publications of open access for all users. The research has analyzed and selected only the Defence Science Journal which is a bimonthly multidisciplinary research journal. It was started in 1949 in the area of Defence science and technology. It is mostly confined to examine article distribution patterns of the research articles, authorship pattern, geographical distribution of authors and citation analysis. Data collected through database were analyzed using different conventional statistical tools and expressed as tables, figures, percentages, Degree of Collaboration, patterns of the year, authorship pattern. The research identifies the level of collaborative research in Defence science Journal output (1.38). It reveals that the majority of the 5 Years (2002 - 2006) of the total number of pages of 656 is in the year 2006 (26.12%). The data are collected from the Defence Science Journal. The present study was carried out using 281 scholarly research articles published in the Defence Science Journal during the period 2002-2006, covered overall five years of articles. Data collected through database were analyzed using different conventional statistical tools and expressed as tables, figures, percentages, Degree of Collaboration, patterns of the year, authorship pattern. The research identifies the level of collaborative research in Defence science Journal output (1.38). It reveals that the majority of the 5 Years (2002 - 2006) of the total number of pages of 656 is in the year 2006 (26.12%). The study confirmed that Defence Science Journal published by the Defence Research Development Organization in the field of Defence related Sciences and allied science has majority of the publications by Indian scientists and were in foreign journals.

Keywords: Bibliometrics Laws, Statistical Tools, Degree of Collaboration. Mountain Gray-Brown Soils

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