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Visualization Of Authorship Patterns And Research Trends Of Annals Of Library And Information Studies, Kunjan Prasad Gupta, Manendra Kumar Singh, Satyanarayan Tiwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was designed to know the year-wise research growth rate, author collaboration pattern and productivity, sub-domain research in library science, research keyword network, thematic and cluster analysis of journal Annals of Library and Information Science. The data search and download has been done under (Scopus database) sources by selecting the subject area Social Science/Library and Information Science and the journal Annals of Library and Information Science. A total of 388 articles from the study period 2011 to 2022 have been downloaded with all bibliographic information from the Scopus database. VOSviewer (version, 1.6.9) and R (Biblioshiny) software have been used …

Analysis Of Serials Citations In Graduate-Students’ Thesis As A Practical Instrument For Effective Serials Management In Academic Libraries, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

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Serials being important to students and researchers as they contain the most current and relevant information that can be used for academic and research purposes needs to be assessed periodically to determine if they are still relevant to the users. This study therefore examines the analysis of serials citations in graduate-students’ theses as a practical instrument for effective management of serials in academic libraries using theses submitted from 2013 to 2021 in Library and information Science of four government owned universities in eastern region of Nigeria as case in point. The study was meant to provide answers to three research …

Citation Analysis Of Serials In Postgraduate Theses And Dissertations Of Library And Information Science Of Public Universities In Southeast, Nigeria, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

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This study is a citation analysis of serials in postgraduate Theses and dissertations of library and information science of public universities in Southeast Nigeria submitted from 2013 to 2021. The study was guide by five research questions in line with the objectives of the study. The study employed a descriptive survey design with a sampled population of 296 derived through census method from four public universities offering library and information science. The principle instruments used in collecting data for this study were self-designed checklists. With the checklists, 12455 serials citations were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mode, mean and range …

A Citation Analysis Of Scholarly Communications Of Universities In Karnataka, Kodandarama ., Chandrashekara M

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Purpose-The study aims to analyse the resources used in the citations of 571 research publications of University of Mysore and Karnatak University in the field of physics and prepares the list of core journal, leading publishers and prolific authors. For any research and academic institutional libraries, books and journals are considered as key resources. As the resources are more and diverse, collection building is a tough task for librarians. Citation analysis is one of the best methods to list the most used resources by the users. The paper highlights the extent of use of different sources in the research …

Contribution Of Annals Of Library And Information Studies In Scopus Database (2011-2021): An Analysis Bibliomatrice Study, Dheeraj Singh Negi

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The paper is based on the bibliometric analysis of 44 issues of Annals of Library and Information Studies published during 2011 to 2021. Each issue published 9.74% research output by and large. Of the total 344 were retrieved from 44 issues of Four volumes with an average of 46.15 from Annals library journal in the period 2011-2021, in which year 2014 has got the highest number of publications i.e, 45 with an average article of 11.2 per issue India 263, Nigeria stands next with 24 contributions and Sri Lanka 15 contributors, Bangladesh with 09 contributions, Iran 07 contributions, South Africa …

Citation Analysis Of Library And Information Science Doctoral Theses Awarded By Universities In India With Jabref Reference Management Software, Avinash Kumar Singh Mr., Vinit Kumar

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ABSTRACT

Society's growth and progress are totally dependent on ongoing research. Citation analysis is one of the most common research methodologies used to assess the quality of research in any area of a topic. A bibliometric study would be helpful to all LIS members. To fulfil the study's goals, citation analysis techniques were utilized. The information was gathered from the Shodhganga repository, which is an online database of Indian theses. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology received the most citations. According to the research, it was ranked first out of 1929 national and worldwide referenced …

Citation Analysis Of Bldea’S Professional Institutes, Vijayapura: A Scientometric Study, Dr. Bachalapur M.M., Dr. Prasanna Kumara Bm, Dr. Jayaprakash G. Hugar

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This paper aims to evaluate the research productivity and citations received by the BLDEA’s professional institutions established in Vijayapura, Karnataka State, India under the banner of BLDE Association's based on their publications and citations as reflected in the Scopus Citation Database for the period of ten years from 2011 to 2020. A total of 910 research publications and citations with all metadata have been downloaded and analyzed as per the objectives of the current study. These three professional institutions received four thousand two hundred forty-seven citations. The paper tries to provide all measurements to view the research output and citations …

Productivity Trends And Pattern Of Scientific Collaboration Of Bibliometric Research: An Exploratory Analysis, Sk Sofik, Ziaur Rahman Dr, Sabahat Nausheen Dr

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Bibliometrics is an emerging thrust area of research and has become a standard tool of science policy and research management in the last decades and attracted much attention because of the substantial expansion of literature. This study aims to systematically review the worldwide productivity trends, the pattern of scientific collaboration, and research outputs of Bibliometrics research from Web of Science (WoS) web database, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E). A bibliographic database of scientific papers published by authors affiliated worldwide, and containing the keywords “Bibliometric(s)” or “Scientometric(s)” or “Informetric(s)” or “Altmetric(s)” was built. A corpus of 9,630 publications was obtained and …

Citation Analysis On The Articles Published In International Journal Of Digital Library Services(Ijodls) During 2015-2017, Sagarika Medhi, Mukut Sarmah

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Citation analysis of all the journal articles published in the International Journal of Digital Library Services (IJODLS) from 2015-2017 is carried out. 144 articles published in the journal during 3 years. The highest numbers (55) of articles are published in the year 2015. The journal contained 1915 citations from 2015-2017. The average number of citations per article is the maximum in the year 2015. The study also covers the analyses of authorship patterns in citing articles. In the authorship pattern, Single author citations are dominant than others and it is 806(42.07%). Among the citations, Journal citations were the highest 1104(57.67%). …

Research Collaboration By Faculty Members In Physics In The University Of Calcutta During 2001-2019: Using Bibliometrix R, Souvik Koner, Samir Kumar Jalal Dr.

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The paper analyses 775 publications by the faculty members in the Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, collected from Scopus database for the period of 19 years (2001-2019). A number of bibliometric indicators e.g. total publications, citations, journal cites score, h-index, year-wise productivity, national and international collaborations, the most preferred and cited journal are employed for analysing the nature of publications. Bibliometric technique and open source software like Publish or Perish and Bibliometrix R Package are used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that 775 papers published in 173 journals with 9090 citations. The average citations per …

Quantitative Research Of The Journal Of Medical Library Association (Jmla) Publish During 2002-2020: A Bibliometric Analysis, Chakradhar Rana, Ramani Ranjan Sahu

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The present study based on bibliometric analysis of Journal of Medical Library Association (JMLA) from 2002-2020 indexed in Scopus database. A total number of 1356 documents were published during the nineteen years from 2002 to 2020. All publication has been examined carefully to extend the data that year wise distribution of papers and citations, volume and issue wise distribution of documents and citation, authorship pattern, Average number of citations per paper, affiliation wise distribution, most cited countries, geographical distribution, top cited documents, occurrence index keyword analysis, co-citations countries, and author productivity. The study reveals that, during these 19 years, the …

Collaboration And Authorship Pattern Of Research Outputs Published By Central Institute Of Plastics Engineering & Technology From 2005 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis., Rajib Debnath , Research Scholar, Dlisc

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The present study focuses on the different attributes of authorship pattern in the literature published by Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET). For this purpose data is collected from Scopus database for the period from 2005 to 29.02.2020. A sum total of 591 papers were published during the period considered which is indexed in the Scopus database. The study aims to find out the pattern of publication, growth rate of publication, authorship pattern, collaborative index, collaborative coefficient, modified collaborative coefficient and co-authorship index etc. From the study it is found that the year 2019 was the most productive …

Grey Literature Citation In Doctoral Theses Of Library And Information Science Awarded By Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad From 2015-2019, Mahendra Kumar

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Grey literature has an important role in information transferring process. This study evaluates the citations of grey literature by the researchers to analyze the citations of grey literature forms in doctoral theses which are awarded by the Department of Library and Information Science by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad during the period from 2015 to 2019. For analyzing the data, average, percentage distributions (presented in charts, tables etc.).The study reveals that Grey Literature is the most utilized as reference materials in the theses. The highest number of Grey Literature cited in the year 2016, 140 citations per thesis and …

Exploring The Current Status And Emerging Trends Of Digital Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis Of “Australian Journal Of Chemistry”, Sana Zia, Sudharma Haridasan

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The main aim of this paper is to investigate the current status and emerging trends of digital scholarly communication through the distribution of citations. It specifically identifies the usage framework of digital research works by the citation analysis of “Australian Journal of Chemistry”. Articles published in “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were chosen as a sample source for data. The data were collected from the time of 2011-2020 i.e. the period of 10 years. The references of every article from each issue of the “Australian Journal of Chemistry” were searched on May 19, 2021. Total of the 42126 citations were retrieved, …

Application Of Citation Analysis In Development Of Core Chemistry Information Sources In Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library, Awka., Angela Nkiruka Ofoedu, E. S. Anaehobi

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This study was carried out to develop core information sources in chemistry using citation analysis. A total of 85 theses submitted to the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2019 constituted the population. A bibliometric study was conducted using indicators such as types of cited sources, most cited journals, most cited books, age of cited journal and books and availability of cited journals and books in the university library. A total of four thousand, seven hundred and thirty (4,730) citations were obtained from the 85 theses. The findings of the study revealed that journal was the most cited source with …

Comparative Analysis Of Citation Based Scientometric Indicators Of Desidoc Journal Of Library & Information Technology (Djlit) And Annals Of Library And Information Studies (Alis) Journals Using Scimago Journal Rank For The Period 2016-2020, Dr. Sudhi S. Vijayan, Renjith V. R

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In the academic world, journal rankings have broadly used to evaluate the impact and quality of scholarly journals. The study's key objective is to comparatively analyze the citation-based scientometric indicators of DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) and Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) journals using SCImago Journal Rank from 2016 to 2020. The data was collected from SCImago Journal Rank website. This article discusses the year wise SJR with quartile, citation per document 4years/3years/2years wise, self cites and total cites, external cites and cites per document, percentage of international collaboration, citable and non-citable documents, cited and …

A Scientometric Mapping Of Highly Cited Works On Medicianal Plants., Senthamilselvi .. A ., Surulinathi .. M ., Srinivasaragavan .. S ., Jayasuriya .. T .

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This article is written to analyze the articles published in Web of science in the context of the keyword “Medicinal plants”. Using the key word “Medicinal plants” a search was made in the Web of Science database to find the articles which are cited more than 100 times by the authors during the year 1989-2021. From the result of the search it is found that 1387 articles were cited more than 100 times. The main aim of this paper is to help the researchers, in the domain of Medicinal plants, to identify the mostly cited journal, most productive and cited …

Measuring The Global Research Output And Visualization On Gender Equality: A Bibliometric Analysis, Navaneeta Majumder, Mayuri Pandya, Shanti P. Chaudhari, Atul Bhatt, Dharmendra Trivedi

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Abstract:

The purpose of present study is to explore the bibliometric features of scientific productions in the domain of gender studies for the period of 2011–2020. The data of the scientific productions were retrieved from the Scopus database. The key words “Gender” and “Equality” were applied as topic terms to search articles published during the study period. The statistical analysis was conducted by using the R Studio, MS Excel and VOS Viewer. A total of 7619 scientific productions were published during the study period. It was found that in the last decade there is a 238% increase in the number …

Investigating Intra-Disciplinary And Extra-Disciplinary Relationships Of Iran’S Rehabilitation Articles Indexed In The Web Of Science During 2013-2017, Fatemeh Haji Hosein Khabbaz, Azam Shahbodaghi, Maryam Shekoufteh

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Background and purpose

Establishing Intra-disciplinary and extra-disciplinary relationships are a prerequisite for the growth and expansion of various scientific disciplines, including rehabilitation science. In this study, we have tried to examine the intra-disciplinary and extra-disciplinary relationships of scientific articles in the field of rehabilitation sciences of Iran, indexed in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2013 to 2017.

Materials and methods

This research was conducted using scientometric techniques, content analysis and citation analysis through a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the research included 392 articles of Iran consisting of original articles and conference articles indexed in the Web …

Assessment Of Bradford’S Law In Publications Of Central Institute Of Plastics Engineering And Technology : A Study Based On Scopus Database., Rajib Debnath , Research Scholar, Dlisc, Sanjay Kumar Singh , Professor & Head, Dlisc

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Bradford’s Law states that for a given subject area the scattering of literature can be divided into three zones. The first zone (Zone 1)also called as core zone consists of very few number of sources (journals) with highest number of citations, the second zone (Zone 2) consists of moderate number of sources (journals) with a few number of citations and the third zone (Zone 3) consists of highest number of sources (journals) with seldom citations. The present study tests the applicability of Bradford’s Law using 606 articles that were collected from the Scopus database for the period from 1988 to …

Citation Analysis Of Doctoral Theses In Science And Social Sciences Submitted To Icfai University, Dehradunduring 2012 – 2020., Tapas Roy, Rounak Biswas, Samaresh Modak

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The study is based on the citation analysis of doctoral theses submitted to ICFAI University, Dehradun which was established under ICFAI University Act 2003. The main objective of this study is to determine the use of information sources by the research scholars of the University for completing their doctoral theses. There are a total of 23 numbers of doctoral theses awarded from the year 2012 to 2020.Among those thesesthirteen theses are from social science departments and remaining ten theses belong to science departments. The study is conducted on the 8979 citations appended in these theses. Bibliographical entries illustrated at the …

Research Trends Of Chennai Mathematical Institute (Cmi) During 2005-2019: A Study Reflected On Web Of Science Data Base, N Senthilkumar, Radhakrishnan Natarajan

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The present study examines the publication pattern of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) during 2005 - 2019 using Web of Science (WOS) database from Clarivate Analytics. 632 articles were published during the study period, more number of articles published in 2019 with 94 (14.87%) and highest number of papers published in physical review letters journal which havs more h-index (567), average annual growth rate of CMI publications was 18.48. Researchers are interested with joint authorship rather than solo authorship pattern. Arun K G is the most prolific author with 94 records and USA is the top collaborative country for CMI with …

Scientometric Profile Of Central Institute Of Plastics Engineering And Technology (Cipet) Based On Scopus Database A Study, Rajib Debnath, Sanjay Kumar Singh

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The research productivity of CIPET has not been measured until now from any view point of Scientometrics. This is the untouched area of research. In the study a generous attempt has been made to understand and evaluate the research productivity based on Scopus database. The study focuses on various aspects of the publication such as the distribution of articles, annual growth rate, authorship pattern, authors productivity, degree of collaboration, collaborative index, country-wise distribution of articles, citation analysis. The dataset collected from Scopus database shows 606 publications from the beginning (1988) to 29.02.2020 in the area of Plastics Technology. From the …

Citation Analysis Of Mathematics: A Scientometric Study Based On Phd Theses, Tripura University, Mithu Anjali Gayan, Sanjay Kumar Singh

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Citation analysis of theses helps in evaluating research performance of departments and universities. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the theses available in Central library, Tripura University from the department of Mathematics. Theses available in the central library for the period of ten years from 2007 to 2016 constitute the sample as the university was converted to central university in 2007. The authorship pattern of the articles was measured with collaborative measures. Bradford law and Leimkuhler model were tested against the dataset. It was revealed that the journals are the most preferred type of documents having the …

Top 100 Most Cited Papers Of The Journal Of Geological Society Of India (Jgsi) In Web Of Science (Wos): A Scientometric Assessment, Renjith V R, Pradeepkumar A P

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Citations of the top 100 most cited papers of the ‘Journal of Geological Society of India’, the premier geology journal published from India, in Web of Science (WoS), are analysed. The parameters used include publication year, citation count, age of publications, contributing authors, institutions, countries and most occurring keywords. Spearman’s rank rho (ρ) is used to ascertain the association between citation count and age of publications. The study found that there is a no association between citation count and age of publications of 100 most cited papers of the journal in WoS. Among 272 authors of the 100 most cited …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Mlisc Dissertation Submitted To Cliss In Dibrugarh University, Anjuma Saikia As, Ranjeet Kumar Choudhary Rks

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The present study is based on 2945 citations, appended in the 75 dissertation submitted to Dibrugarh Centre for Library and Information Science Studies(CLISS) in Dibrugarh university, Assam to confer Master degree during the period of 2014-2019.The primary objectives of this study was to investigate the core literature and/or the group of authors central to the field of LIS, to know the forms of documents cited in the MLISC dissertation, to define the most frequently cited periodicals and authorship pattern, to ascertain the geographical distribution of cited documents, determine the year of publication of cited documents in Library and information Science. …

Grey Literature Citation In Doctoral Theses Of Library And Information Science Awarded By The University Of Burdwan From 2010 To 2019., Partha Sarathi Mandal Librarian, Sukumar Mandal Assistant Professor

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Grey literature has an important role in information transferring process. This present study evaluates the citations of grey literature by the researchers to analyze the citations of grey literature and grey literature forms in doctoral theses which are awarded by the Department of Library and Information Science by the University of Burdwan during the period from 2010 to 2019. For analyzing the data, average, percentage distributions (presented in charts, tables) and measures of central tendency are used here. The present study reveals that Grey Literature is the most utilized as reference materials in the theses. The highest number of Grey …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Publications In The Scopus Database: A Study At Prince Of Songkla University (Psu) During 1978-2021, Pachisa Kulkanjanapiban, Tipawan Silwattananusarn

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This paper presents a Bibliometric analysis of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) based on the Scopus database for 1978-2021. The study aimed to explore the current state, the trends, characteristics of Prince of Songkla University (PSU), i.e., growth of research output, collaboration trends, authorship pattern, citation patterns, contributing countries, and organizations. A total of 14,644 publications consulted of PSU published during the year 1978-2021 retrieved from the Scopus database, and these articles had a total of 10,257 cited items. The method used to display the research pattern and research activity on a particular topic is the bibliometric analysis commonly used …

Exploring Growth And Impact Of Research Productivity For Prince Of Songkla University (Psu) On Scopus Database: A Bibliometric Analysis, Pachisa Kulkanjanapiban, Tipawan Silwattananusarn

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This paper presents a Bibliometric analysis of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) based on the Scopus database for 1978-2021. The study aimed to explore the current state, the trends, characteristics of Prince of Songkla University (PSU), i.e., growth of research output, collaboration trends, authorship pattern, citation patterns, contributing countries, and organizations. A total of 14,644 publications consulted of PSU published during the year 1978-2021 retrieved from the Scopus database, and these articles had a total of 10,257 cited items. The method used to display the research pattern and research activity on a particular topic is the bibliometric analysis commonly used …

Growth And Impact Of Scholarly Contributions For Sp University: A Bibliometric Analysis, Pradip Patel, Atul Bhatt

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Qualitative analysis of bibliographic datasets becomes advantageous to individuals and institutions since the high weightage of ‘research’ enunciated in assessment ranking or gradation framework. Out of the various existing methods ‘bibliometric methods’ applied in the current study for quantitative examination of research output to measure productivity and performance. A total of 1690 Bibliographic records consulted of Sardar Patel University (SPU) published during the year 2009-2018 retrieved from the Scopus indexing database. To validate the objectives i.e. to determine chronological growth, authorship pattern, core sources for research communication, and influence of productivity by citations received, various indicators, and indices and bibliometric …