Journal Packing Density across Subject Disciplines at the Global Level: A Study

What is it about?

The study aims to assess the Journal Packing Density (JPD) of the research journals published across different subject discipline at the global level. The concept of Journal Packing Density is aimed to compute the average number of research articles published per volume or per issue of a research journal in any given subject discipline. The study also discusses about the leading research journals publishing countries and continents across the world and their average JPD. An attempt has also been made to identify the leading research counties having maximum JPD in any given subject discipline.

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Why is it important?

Countries from where a lesser number of research journals are indexed by the popular indexes, such as SCOPUS, Web of Science etc., face greater pressure of publishing. In order to ooze out this pressure, there is need to index more and more research journals from these countries and that can be done only by improving & maintaining the research standard over a period of time.