There is a great deal of disparity in the creation and dissemination of scholarly publications across disciplines. The main objective of the study in this article is three-fold: first, to find empirical evidence of publishing regularity in economics journals in India; second, to examine what accounts for author concentration in journals, with a special focus on economics; and third, to understand the nature of scholarly collaboration. For this, authorship data from eight Indian economics journals and the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), a prestigious periodical encompassing a range of areas in social sciences, were manually obtained. This study contributes to existing literature by substantiating that author concentration is not merely an outcome of the degree of journal specialization. Interestingly, the study shows that a journal with generic readership is likely to form a power-law distribution. The computed measures of social network analysis indicate that collaboration in Indian economics, unlike in world economics, is in a nascent stage, consisting of a large number of isolated authors on the one hand, and some fragmented groups of varied sizes, on the other.

在跨学科的学术出版物的创建和传播方面存在很大的差异。本文研究的主要目的包括三个方面：第一，寻找印度经济学期刊出版规律的经验证据；第二，研究什么因素导致作者集中在期刊上，特别侧重于经济学；第三，了解学术合作的性质。为此，来自八种印度经济学期刊和《经济与政治周刊》的作者数据（EPW）是一本享有盛誉的期刊，涵盖社会科学的各个领域，是手动获得的。这项研究通过证实作者集中注意力不仅仅是期刊专业化程度的结果，为现有文献做出了贡献。有趣的是，研究表明，具有通用读者身份的期刊很可能会形成幂律分布。社交网络分析的计算方法表明，与世界经济学不同，印度经济学中的合作处于起步阶段，一方面由大量孤立的作者组成，另一方面由一些规模不一的零散的群体组成。