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Research In Library Herald During 2017-2021 : A Bibliometric Analysis, Sangram Haldar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometric analysis of research papers, articles, etc., has gained increasing importance in Library and Information Science to analyze the publication patterns, authorship patterns, and citation patterns of research papers published within a defined period. Bibliometric analysis is essential for library professionals in the collection development process. This paper intends to analyze the articles published in the journal 'Library Herald' from 2017 to 2021 with the help of different statistical tools and techniques. The results indicate most of the contributions by two authors and one article by six authors and the overall degree of collaboration among authors is 0.62. The study …

A Scientometric Analysis Of The Journal Information And Organization, Bidisha Debnath,, Jayanta Kr Nayek

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The main aim of the study is to analyze the different quantitative aspect of the journal, Information and Organization, which includes: year wise growth of articles, authorship pattern of articles, collaboration index, degree of collaboration, geographical distribution of the research output, productivity and ranking of authors etc. A scientometric analysis of the international journal ‘Information and Organization’ was conducted based on the articles published in the journal during 2003 to 2017. It covers 193 articles contributed by 407 authors from 138 institutions of 28 various countries. We have used several scientometric tools to see the different aspects of the journal. …

Intellectual Structure And Publication Pattern In Journal Of Money Laundering Control From 2014 To 2020: A Bibliometric Study, Prof (Dr.) Sasmita Samanta, Dr. Bijayalaxmi Rautaray, Dr. Dillip K Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study comprehends intellectual structure and publication pattern of scholarly articles published in the Journal of Money Laundering Control ranging from the year 2014 to 2020 through the prevailing methods of bibliometric analysis. The study finds that the JMLC has published the lowest number of 29 papers in 2014 and the highest number of 117 papers in the publishing year 2020. Regarding country wise distribution of research productivity, the UK is the top performer followed by Switzerland, and the USA. The degree of collaboration (DC) in JMLC publications is found to be 0.34. The study intends to provide its readers …

Bibliometrics Visualization Of Desidoc Journal Of Library & Information Technology And Srels Journal Of Information Management During 2016 - 2020: A Comparative Study, Laltu Aich, Ankit Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study analyses the articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) and SRELS Journal of Information Management, the leading UGC-CARE enlisted Indian journals in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) during the year 2016-2020 which explores the volume wise, issue wise pattern of distribution of articles, authorship pattern of articles, geographical distribution of major contributions and contributors, state wise distribution of articles from India, reference distribution pattern and its authorship pattern. The study reveals that DJLIT (277) has more publications than SRELS Journal (248) during the mentioned period. DJLIT has got maximum contribution …

Research Productivity Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology: A Bibliometric Review, Kunwar Singh, Madan Singh, Ayush Kumar Patel, Gireesh Kumar T K, Satyajit Nayak, Avadhesh Kumar Patel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examines the research productivity of the DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) for a selected period of 2012-2020. In 2012, the Scopus database started indexing DJLIT publications, and it was the motivation behind choosing this specific period for the present study. The sourced data for the present study was extracted from the Scopus database covering the period 2012-2020. The various bibliometric parameters have been applied, such as year-wise distribution of publications with citations, RCI, ACPP, CAI, Citation analysis, the collaboration of authors, institutions and countries to measure the research productivity. The study's findings revealed that the …

A Bibliometric Study Annals Of Library And Information Studies, Sachin Vaidya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to analyze the Annals of Library and Information Studies for a period 2016 to 2020. In this study the issue wise number of articles, authorship pattern and the degree of collaboration are analysed. The study also analysed the country and state wise contribution of articles, the length of articles on the basis of pages and the number of reference.

Mapping The Research Productivity Of Journal Of Chemical Sciences: A Bibliometric Study, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper presents a bibliometric study of the Journal of Chemical Sciences for the period of 10 years (1987-1996) in which articles were published. The study focuses on necessary bibliometric analysis forms, authorship pattern analysis, year wise distribution of articles, issue wise distribution of articles, subject wise distribution analysis.The study revealed that that the maximum number of articles were published in the year 1993 (127) and minimum in the year 1994 (21) articles. The authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study was contributed maximum by two authors 265 (27.20%), followed by three authors with 253 (25.98%) …

Research Productivity And Degree Of Collaboration In Journal Of Digital Library Perspectives (2016 To 2020), Somaraya B. Tallolli Dr., K R. Mulla Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in “Journal of Digital Library perspectives” during the year 2016 to 2020. This study examines mainly the authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, geographical distribution, and citation analysis. Results indicate that most of the papers are published by multiple authors and found 22.16% average citations per paper. The degree of collaboration is found to be 0.56. The (46.96%) USA is the highest contributor to the articles in the journal during the study period.

Global Research Productivity In Physical Cosmology: A Scientometric Analysis, Vijaya Kumar R, Palaniappan M, Thangamani T

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cosmology is the most preferred research area among global research and development for quite a time in terms of the total number of publications, authorship pattern, h-index, institution, journals, and countries. The present study deal with the assessment of Physical Cosmology research output as reflected in the Web of Science (WOS) database for the period 2011 to 2020 for identifying the research output in the field of Physical Cosmology. We measure global contribution to Physical Cosmology research. In the ten years, 2011 to 2020 researchers have published 1979 papers. India published 254 papers with a 12.83 percentage, the USA contributed …

Journal Of Informetrics: A Bibliometric Study, Digbijoy Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper presents a bibliometric study of the “Journal of Informetrics”. It publishes four issues per year. The data were downloaded from the journal’s website. The bibliometric analysis has been conducted with 404 contributions published in the journal selected five years for a period between 2016-2020. The study focuses on necessary bibliometric analysis forms, authorship pattern analysis, year wise distribution of articles, issue wise distribution of articles, single and multi authored papers. Findings of the studies pointed towards the advantages and weakness of the journal which are helpful for its further development. The study revealed that that the maximum number …

Scholarly Communication In Global Business Review Of The Last Decade As Reflected In Scopus: A Bibliometric Survey, Sudam Charan Sahu Mr., Gati Krushna Nayak Mr., Chandrakant Swain Dr., Sudeshna Tripathi Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The research paper aims to analyse the research output of “Global Business Review” Journal during the period of 2011-2020. The SCOPUS (a product of Elsevier) multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database has been used to retrieve records. The raw bibliographic and citation retrieved data are analysed with bibliometrix R-package. Based on the retrieved data of “Global Business Review” research publication is analysed and interpreted. The performance of the annual scientific productions, most productivity countries, authors, Affiliations/Institutions –wise and citation reference is analysed. The findings reveal that total 1071 publications are there during the period of study, the most …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Nanomedicine Research From 2009-2018, Chinmay Sarma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper is based on the bibliometric analysis of Nanomedicine research published from 2009 to 2018. Total 6415 records were retrieved for analysis from the Web of Science database. The study covers year wise distribution of publications, identification of most prolific authors, identification of most contributing countries, application of Bradford’s law and identification of core journals in the field of nanomedicine. The study reveals that China has contributed highest publications followed by USA and India. The authorship pattern of the publications was studied. The publications are highly collaborative (DC=0.98).

Research Productivity Trends Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology (Djlit) During 2011-2020: A Bibliometric Analysis, Parishmita Hazarika

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper intends to glance at the DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) research productivity over ten years (2011-2020). The paper illustrates the various bibliometric factors in the Journal DJLIT, which published 588 publications during 2011-2020. As per the analysis, in 2012, most of the papers were published with the highest growth rate of 20.68 %. The productivity of the authors shows that a total of 1144 authors published 588 papers, with an average of 0.51% per author. The degree of collaboration varies from 0.53 to 0.75, with 0.65 being the average. The author B.M. Gupta has the …

Authorship And Collaboration Pattern Of Annals Of Library And Information Studies Journal During 2009-2018: Scientometrics Mapping, Saumen Das, Manoj Kumar Verma

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This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal titled Authorship and Collaboration Pattern of Annals of Library and Information Studies Journal during 2009-2018: Scientometrics Mapping. The analysis focused on the distribution pattern of articles, author's productivity, collaboration pattern and Collaborative coefficient and citation impact over time. It showed that the highest 12.57% of articles were published in the year 2010. The majority of articles are double authored with 47.03% of the total contribution. The degree of collaboration among the authors was found 0.66, which means collaborated papers are increasing. Total 2886 citations were appended where the highest number of …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Papers Published During 2016-2020 In ‘Tulsi Prajna’ Research Journal, Sunil Tyagi, Satya Narain Bharadwaj Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of the research journal titled “Tulsi Prajna” to provide a summary of research activity in the journal and to characterize its most important aspects.

Methodology: The present study is based on the bibliometrics analysis of the papers published in Tulsi Prajna for the period 2016–2020. The analysis was done in two parts viz analysis of articles and analysis of citations. The analysis mainly covers the year-wise distribution, category-wise classification, authorship patterns, degree of collaboration, geographical distribution of articles and the citation analysis.

Findings: The present analysis displays a trend of growth …

Scientometric Analysis Of The Research Performance On Astronomy: The World Perspective, Vijaya Kumar R, Palaniappan M, Thangamani T

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A study examined astronomy research performance from 2010 to 2019 by conducting in the following paper. The results are study based on the objectives of the Astronomy research. Scientometric analysis of collected data has been downloaded from the Web of Science database, a total of 6905 bibliography records. The highest number of publications 861 (12.47%) in the year 2018, It is found the degree of author collaboration in astronomy ranges from 0.66 to 0.78 during the period from 2010 to 2019. The maximum annual growth rate of 0.14 was found during 2011 with 582 publications. In the mean of a …

Global Research Publications Trends Of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Scientometric Analysis, Gesa George, Ashok Thomas

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Gestational Diabetes is high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy and can cause problems for both mother and baby, during and after birth. But the risk of these problems can be reduced if its detected and well managed. The paper attempts to analyze the studies done on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) for the past 10 years. It includes document by affiliation, document by type and document by author. Scopus international multidisciplinary bibliographic database has been used to retrieve the 10 years covering the the year 2011-2020.

Scientometric Analysis Of Waste Water Management Research Publications From Scopus Database During 2010-2019, Vivekanandhan S Dr, Ravichandran Shanmugam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: This paper examines the waste water management research publications during the period of 2010-2019 from the Scopus multidisciplinary online database. The study aims to analysis the year wise growth of publications, relative growth rate and doubling time, top 10 authors contribution, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, collaborative index, Co- author index, document types, time series analysis, contribution of top 10 journals, institutions, countries, language and Highly cited papers of waste water management research publications.

Results: There are 19861 research publications are identified in the field of waste water management research publications during the ten year study period. …

Self-Citation And Authorship Pattern In Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology, Anil Kumar Siwach, Vinod Kumar Thakur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Researchers support their research work by citing previous studies. Citations are considered important indicator of research performance and many research based indicators are based on these. Self-citation, i.e., citing own previous studies, is a common practice but excessive and unsolicited self-citations are unethical and not considered good. The present paper intends to study the self-citations of “DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology” in terms of author-self citation, journal self-citation and author-journal self-citation during the ten year period from 2010 to 2019. The study also covers authorship pattern, collaboration and prolific authors in the journal under study.

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Journal Of Advances In Library And Information Science (Jalis) From 2016-2020: An International Online Journal, Vellaichamy Alagarsamy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study analyses papers published in Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science (JALIS) using bibliometric techniques for the period of 2016 to 2020 (5 years). The study examines that, publication growth, degree of collaboration, authorship pattern of the articles and reference distribution. The study has analysed that the highest number of articles was published during the year of 2017 followed by 2016. The degree of collaboration ranges from 0.70 to 0.78 and its mean value is 0.74. The findings indicate that a total of 431 authors produced 243 articles with an average of 0.53 percentage of per author …

Mapping Of Global Research Trends In Financial Literacy: A Scientometric Approach, Avadhesh Kumar Patel, Madan Singh, Ayush Kumar Patel, Kunwar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main goal of this present study was to access the global research trends in financial literacy. The data obtained from the Scopus database, one of Elsevier's largest bibliographic databases. The various scientometric indicators have been applied in this study, such as year-wise growth pattern with Citation, Annual growth rate (AGR), Relative growth rate (RGR), Authorship pattern, degree of collaboration (DC), Correlation coefficient (CC), Most prolific authors, highly cited documents, most collaborative institutes, highly preferred sources, top funding agencies, Subject wise distribution and types of papers, etc. The study comprises a review of 2000 research documents published with 22229 citations …

Research Performance Of Postgraduate Institute Of Medical Education And Research (Pgimer), Chandigarh: A Scientometric Analysis, Ashok Thomas, Gesa George

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper attempts to analyze the research profile of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, on several parameters including its status, growth rate, impact, international collaborative research patterns, media of communication. The paper also evaluates the research characteristics under 10 broad subjects and of 10 productive authors. Scopus International multidisciplinary bibliographical database has been used to retrieve the 10 years data covering the years 2011-2020.

Publication And Collaboration Pattern Of College And Research Libraries Journal During 2009-2018: A Scientometric Analysis, Saumen Das, Kiran Kaur, Manoj Kumar Verma Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal titled College and Research Libraries for the period between 2009 to 2018. The analysis focused on the distribution pattern of articles, the author’s productivity, collaboration pattern and Collaborative coefficient, Relative Growth rate and doubling time. It showed that the highest 14.47% of articles were published in the year 2015. The majority of articles are singled authored with 35.02% of the total contribution. The degree of collaboration among the authors was found decent, the average growth rate was in an upward direction from beginning to latest years. Total 14942 citations were appended …

Collaborative Measures And Authorship Pattern Of Current Science Journal – A Scientometric Analysis, M. Thamaraiselvi, Lakshmi S Dr, Manthiramoorthi M Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examined the collaborative measures and authorship pattern of current science journal during 2014 to 2018. Data retrieved from Web of Science (WoS) bibliographical database. A total of 4298 publications appeared in current science journal during the study period. The aim of the study to illustrates various significant aspect of collaborative measures like collaborative index, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, modified collaborative coefficient and authorship pattern. Relative growth rate and doubling time also analysed to find the growth of publications. Finding of the study states that 1440 (33.50%) papers contributed by single author, average value of collaborative index are …

Lis Research Productivity According To Gender, Vinay R S Mr., Sampath Kumar B T Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose-The present study aims to explore the publication trend, authorship pattern and research productivity by male and female authors in the field of Library and Information Science research.

Design/Methodology/Approach- A total of 571 articles published in selected three LIS Emerald journals viz., i) Library Management, ii) New Library World iii) Performance Measurement and Metrics during 2009-2018 are downloaded from Emerald group of publishing. The data related to the author’s gender, affiliation, university and country are extracted and saved in a separate file for further analysis. Influence of gender was assessed with respect to at individual and collaborative level. The …

Contribution Of The University Of Burdwan And Kalyani University During 2000-19: A Scientometrics Analysis, Subhodip Bid, Dr Sukumar Mandal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper attempt to compare the contribution of two state universities of West Bengal i.e. University of Burdwan (BU) and University of Kalyani (KU) under different parameters like publication size, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, subject, language, geographical distribution during the period 2000 to 2019 ( 20 years) by using Web of Science as a source database. The study revealed that both the universities have almost similar authorship pattern, citation distribution and prefer to publish articles in journals. The USA ranked top as the most favorite country for collaboration for both the universities.

Correlation Of Authorship Pattern, Lotka's Law And Collaborative Measures On Research Publications Of Anna University: A Bibliometric Study, M. Thamaraiselvi, S. Lakshmi Dr, M Manthiramoorthi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents the analysis of authorship pattern and collaborative measures of 5318 research publications of Anna University and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database during the period of 2014. 2018. The analysis indicates that multi authored papers are dominated in the dataset and the average author per paper is 4.01. The collaborative measures consist of collaborative index, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient and moderate coefficient. Overall value of collaborative index (4.06), degree of collaboration (0.99), collaborative coefficient (0.67) and there is no change in the value of moderate coefficient. The distribution of author productivity of the research publications …

A Bibliometric Assessment Of India’S Library And Information Science Research Publications During 2011-2020, Prachi Srivastava, Sharad Kumar Sonker, Rupinder Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric study to investigate the research output of library and information science in India. The SCOPUS database was selected to collect data from 2011 to 2020. Collected data was analysed on various parameters such as authorship pattern, year wise contribution of articles, most cited articles, top journals, top authors, document types, etc. The study found that in year 2019 Indian author contributed 471 research papers which 21.8% and highest in 10 years. Again in 2019, double authored article was highest in number with total of 252 articles. In periods of 10 …

A Bibliometric Study On World Digital Libraries – An International Journal (2008-2020), Indrakshi Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Currently bibliometric study is an ongoing modern trending topic in the field of library and information science. The professionals are also doing bibliometric study in various fields and developing the status of collection development. This paper examines the bibliometric analysis of World Digital Libraries – An International Journal. This analysis has been conducted with 149 contributions published in the journal selected twelve years for a period between 2008-2020. Collected data was analyzed on various parameters such as authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, distribution of articles (issue wise), year-wise authorship patterns, length of the article, ranking of contributors, year wise contribution …

Scientometric Mapping Of Defence Life Science Journal, Neha Kumari Teli, Naveen Chaparwal, Dr. P. S. Rajput

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This paper analyzes scientometric mapping of 178 articles which was published in the Defence Life Science Journal. 14 issues from 4 volumes during 2016-2019 have been considered for the current study. To analysis the publication year of the articles to know authorship pattern to identify how many single and multiple author contribute to know how many pages in maximum articles to discuss top 10 cited articles to identify author productivity degreeof collaboration; collaboration index: all these are to mainly discussed in the research. This study reveals that out of 178 publications 5(2.8%) paper contributed by single author and rest of …