Mapping of Scholarly Research in Open Science: A Scientometrics Study- 1979 to 2024

This study attempts to assess the patterns of authorship and collaboration in the open science sector from 1979 to 2024. A total of 1459 research articles were published during this period, of which 385 were published by single authors, 58 articles without any authorship, and the remaining 1016 articles were published jointly by two or more authors. These observations indicate that the pattern of multi-authorship is dominant in the open science sector. The study also found that about 59 percent of research articles were published between 2021 and 2024, compared to 38.54 percent in the previous decade from 2011 to 2020. Keywords: Relative Growth Rate, Doubling Time, Authorship Pattern, Collaboration Index, Degree of Collaboration, Collaboration Coefficient