An analysis of 3047 research articles published by the research community in the five universities of Karnataka has been reported based on the national consortia portal JCCC@UGC INFONET. The research publications contributed by the academic community between 1969 and May 2011 reveals that University of Mysore has highest research publications with 1100 articles appearing in JCCC@UGC INFONET portal. Authorship trend reveals that single author contribution is diminishing to a great extent with just 3.93% of authors published individually while 43.41% of authors have contributed with four and five authors. The domain wise publications are mainly from science stream, with Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics dominating the area of research contributions and Library and Information Science at ninth position. Application of Bradford’s law reveals that onethird of scientific journals publish 2409 articles accounting for 79 percent of publication.

Key words: Scientometrics; Research productivity; Bibliometrics; Publication productivity; Core Journals; Authorship Pattern.