CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES RESEARCH (IJVASR): A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

A Scientometric study was performed on 235 research articles published in the Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research (IJVASR). For the current analysis, six volumes of the journal totalling 30 issues from 2016 to 2020 were considered. The amounts of contributions, authorship patterns, author productivity, average article length, and average keyword density have all been examined. Only 20 of the 235 contributions were single-authored, while the rest were multi-authored, with an average degree of collaboration of 0.91 and a week of collaboration between the writers. The increasing tendency of co-authored publications was highlighted by the pattern of co-authorship. According to the research, author productivity is 0.26.

Fate of Manuscripts Rejected by a Specialty Psychiatry Journal: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Little is known about the publication outcomes of submissions rejected by specialty psychiatry journals. We aimed to investigate the publication fate of original research manuscripts previously rejected by the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (IJPM). Methods: A random sampling of manuscripts was drawn from all submissions rejected between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2019. Using the titles of these papers and the author names, a systematic search of electronic databases was carried out to examine if these manuscripts have been published elsewhere or not. We extracted data on a range of scientific and nonscientific parameters from the journal’s manuscript management portal for every rejected manuscript. Multivariable analysis was used to detect factors associated with eventual publication. Results: Out of 302 manuscripts analyzed, 139 (46.0%) were published elsewhere; of these, only 18 articles (13.0%) were published in a journal with higher standing than IJPM. Manuscripts of foreign origin (odds ratio [OR] 1.77, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.06–2.97) and rejection following peer review or editorial re-review (OR 2.41, 95% CI = 1.22–4.74) were significantly associated with publication. Conclusion: Nearly half of the papers rejected by IJPM were eventually published in other journals, though such papers are more often published in journals with lower standing. Manuscripts rejected following peer review were more likely to reach full publication status compared to those which were desk rejected.

SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL NUTRITION (IJAN)

Using scientometric analysis, animal nutrition research from 2016 to 2020 was collected from the quarterly journal of the Indian Journals of Animal Nutrition. According to the research, 384 papers were written between 2016 and 2020, with 24 papers being highly published in 2016. As a result, animal nutrition is the most popular topic among scientists interested in veterinary research, with 1838 papers published out of 384. In particular, author Chander Data published 15 publications in the years (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020), and some authors published (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12) articles in the years (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020).