“…The indicators like Total papers (TP),Total citations (TC), Average citations per paper (ACPP), Annual citations per year (ACPY) are studied in a large number of papers by Abbott and Doucouliagos (2004), Abramo et al (2017), Agboola and Oduwole (2005), Ahmad et al (2018), Anderson and Tressler (2008), Anilkumar (2010, 2014), Anyaogu and Iyabo (2014), Chan et al (2014), Cohn and Farrington (2014), Dalrymple and Varlejs (1995), Dean et al (2011), Falagas et al (2006), Gupta and Bala (2013), Gupta and Dhawan (2008), Gupta et al (2010), Kaur et al (2011), Johanson and Woods (2002), Khiste (2017), Khiste et al (2018), Kostoff (2012), Krishnamurthy and Awari (2015), Kumar et al (2009, 2015), Liu et al (2015), McPherson et al (2013), Maske Dnyaneshwar and Khiste (2018), Murugan and Ravanan (2016), Nagarkar et al (2015), Naheem et al (2017), Nakanjako et al (2017), O’Brien and Cronin (2016), Ocholla et al (2012), Peter et al (2019), Ramos et al (2009), Ray et al (2016), Research Council UK (2010), Siwach and Satish Kumar (2015), Sudhier and Kumar (2010), Tsafe et al (2016), Uma and Rao (2014), Vasishta (2011), Visakhi and Gupta (2013) and Webber (2012). The indicators that reveal the number of collaborative papers at the local, national and international levels are termed as Locally collaborated papers (LCP), Domestic collaborative papers (DCP), National collaborative papers (NCP), and International collaborative papers ICP respectively and reflected in many studies likely…”