Citation Analysis of the Doctoral Theses on Shakespeare Submitted to the University of Calcutta during 1957-2014

a study

Abstract

The importance of the citations lies in the fact that as an integral part of any research documentthey create a link between the cited and citing documents.Keeping this in mind, citation analysis was conducted on the bibliographical references collected from 19 doctoral theses on Shakespeare submitted to the University of Calcutta with the aim to observe the features of the citations as well as the citing behaviour of the researchers in this specific field of literature. Finally 3310 references were taken into consideration, on the basis of which a database was created using Microsoft Office Excel 2007.The study shows that books were the highly cited  documents , and that one-authored books and articles received maximum citations in the theses. UK was the highest cited country in case of bothbook and article citations. Shakespeare Quarterly was the most productive journal on Shakespeare, as observed from the study. This study is very much authentic and original. No research work on this topic has been published elsewhere previously.