Lotka's Law and Bioinformatics Research in India

The study aims to examine the validity of Lotka’s law and authorship distribution to the research outcome of Indian bioinformatics research output indexed in the web of science during 2008-2017. A total of 8732 papers has been scattered in 1723 journals during the period were compiled from web of science database. The paper gives a review of the scholarly contribution on the various facets of Lotka's Law and its application in different subject fields. Using ‘straight count’ of authors, a total of 3835 personal authors were identified and the Lotka’s law was tested using K- S goodness- of - fit test and Chi- square test. The results indicate that the author productivity distribution of Lotka’s law is applicable to bioinformatics literature, while applying K- S test and not applicable when the Chi- square test is employed.