• Dr. Muneshwar Bhimabai Subhash
• Dr. Khaparde Vaishali S

The present study is based on 31,123 citations appended at the end of 254 Ph.D. theses on Economics, submitted to The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). London. During 1909 to 2018 on Citation analysis is worthwhile area of research. A study on 110 Year data it can also observed that, the majority of the theses were submitted in the year 2012 that is 29. Journals contributed the maximum number of citations, accounted 17,511 (56.26%) of the total citations. This indicates that Journals are the most preferred form of information used by researchers in Economics, the oldest documents published as in 1614 have been cited, the authorship patterns of citation are arranged Lotka’s law of scientific productivity. From the authorship dataset given below, calculate the estimated and standardized number of authors using n-values obtained from inverse square root law, Least-squares method formulations and Lotka’s original formulation. The attempt was made to test applicability of Bradford’s law of scattering, Bradford,s law as well as Leimkuhler models both are tested to verity the scattering of literature in Economics. Language wise and country wise have been used for the data analysis.

Citation analysis, Economics, Bradford,s law, Leimkuhler models, Lotka’s law.

"Citation Analysis of Ph. D. Thesis in Economics Submitted to London School of Economics and Political Science ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no.c484-c499, November-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511258.pdf

"Citation Analysis of Ph. D. Thesis in Economics Submitted to London School of Economics and Political Science ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no. ppc484-c499, November-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511258.pdf