Scholarly communication in Journal of Financial Crime, 2006‐2010: a bibliometric study
| Pages | 371-383 |
| Published date | 05 October 2012 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/13590791211266368 |
| Date | 05 October 2012 |
| Author | Kamal Lochan Jena,Dillip K. Swain,K.C. Sahoo |
| Subject Matter | Accounting & finance |
Scholarly communication in
Journal of Financial Crime,
2006-2010: a bibliometric study
Kamal Lochan Jena
College of Engineering & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
Dillip K. Swain
PG Department of Library Science, North Orissa University,
Baripada, India, and
K.C. Sahoo
Department of Library and Information Science, Dr H.S. Gour University,
Sagar, India
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scholarly communications in Journal of
Financial Crime (JFC) during the last five years and to study the key dimensions of its publication
trends.
Design/methodology/approach – For the analysis of the study, five volumes containing 20 issues
of Journal of Financial Crime during the years 2006 to 2010 have been taken up for evaluation. The
authors employ necessary bibliometric measures to analyze different publication parameters.
Findings – It is found that the contribution of articles to each volume of JFC is very consistent and
the journal has published around 30 articles per year. Single authored papers are found to be the
highest, followed by two-authored and then three-authored papers. The degree of collaboration in JFC
is found to be 0.246. In regards to ranking of country productivity, the UK topped the list followed by
the USA, Canada and Australia. Journal of Financial Crime, which is the source journal, leads the
table followed by Journal of Business Ethics,Crime Law and Social Change and Journal of Money
Laundering Control.
Research limitations/implications – This paper focuses on the publication traits of Journal of
Financial Crime over a five-year period. Patterns of research output in 155 publications are analyzed.
Further studies can include other journals in the field of economics.
Practical implications – Scholars can benefit from insights into the scholarly contributions of
Journal of Financial Crime that has accommodated 220 authors from 41 different countries of the world.
Originality/value – The paper provides valuable insights into the nature of academic publishing of
Journal of Financial Crime. It can help JFC readers to understand the most striking contributions,
highly cited journals, the most prolific authors, country productivity, and assorted parameters.
Keywords Journals,Financialcrime, Research work,Bibliometrics, Scientometrics,Equalcredit method,
Citation counts
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
Though the statistics was applied to study the literature in any subject but the first
recorded study of bibliometric topic was in 1917 by Cole and Eales (1917) with the title
“Statistical analysis of literature of history of comparative anatomy” which served
as a modelfor applying the counting techniquein the evaluation of internationalactivities.
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