Literature contribution in journal of environmental biology: A bibliometric study

31-40<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">nalyses the literature contributed (132 items) to the journal of Environmental Biology, 1980-84 with regard to the nature and the time lag of the citing research papers. It also analyses country-wise and institution-wise scattering of the contributions. The authorship and citation patterns are also evaluated to ascertain the nature of research (solo/team) and the core journals of the discipline. Gives a list of 21 highly cited journals, cited at least 10 times. The Bradford's Law of Scattering is applied to the literature of environmental biology.