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Reinforcement Of The New Islamic Civilization Through Qur’Anic Literacy, Asmaji Muchtar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article aims to provide a solution for how the new Islamic civilization in the modern era should be the answer to overcoming the various problems of the world community. Since its emergence, Islam has provided answers related to the role of science as a whole contained in the Qur'an, so it is not surprising that Muslim scientists and their work have become a reference for scientists around the world for 14 centuries ago. However, the literacy of Muslim scholars is too focused on qouliyah verses that contain Sharia, rather than kauniyah verses that contain science. On the other hand, …

Web Visibility And Research Productivity Of Nirf Ranked Universities In India: A Webometric Study, Sandip S. Patel Dr., Dharmendra Trivedi Dr., Atul Bhatt Dr., Chaudhari Shanti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to examine the website analysis of top 15 Indian universities ranked in NIRF (National Institutes Ranking Framework). The study focused on research productivity and webometric analysis which examine the domain, domain age, external and internal links, whereas all three types of web impacts of all respondent websites have been analysed. Study also examine usage of websites by stakeholder from inside and outside the country. For measuring research productivity of the respondent’s universities, researchers has approached the Scopus database and analysed the no. of papers published, total citations received and h-index of respondent’s universities. The present study used …

Information Needs Of Myocardial Infarction Patients: An Integrative Review, Nazeer Hussain, Khalid Mahmood

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cardiovascular diseases including myocardial infarction, heart failure, heart attacks and other related risk factors are on the rise in Pakistan. This heart disease is generating a high burden of coronary artery disease on healthcare services and becoming a leading cause of death in developing countries like Pakistan. Health information is an integral part of patient education and ultimately for patient care. Thus, understanding the information needs of heart patients are seriously important and essential in ensuring quality care, controlling heart diseases and improving the self-care abilities of heart patients alongside the advanced medication and treatment strategies. This integrative review intends …

A Brief Bibliometric Analysis And Visualisation Of Scopus And Wos Databases On Blockchain Technology In Healthcare Domain, Shailaja Pede, Madan Lal Saini

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: The aim of this study is to analyse the work carried out in healthcare or medical domain using blockchain technology for privacy and security of patient’s data, their healthcare records. The documents published in Scopus and Web of Science databases during the year 2016 to present (February 2021) have been considered for survey.

Methods:

Scopus and Web of Science(WoS), most popular databases are used to retrieve documents which were published between years 2016 to present. Scopus analyser and web of Science analyser are used for analysis of various parameters such as documents published per year, sources of documents, number …

Scientometric Study Of Greenhouse Effect Research Output Among Brics Countries., Mohanathan P, Rajendran N

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present scientometric study highlighted the contributions made by BRICS countries in the field of Greenhouse Effect research, as reflected in the SCOPUS database during the year 2014-2018. BRICS countries have contributed 1953 publications during this research period. China made the highest contribution of 62.93% (41,369) among the BRICS countries followed by India 277 publications. The highest account of records presented in Article (81.11%) followed by Conference Paper (7.63%). The 106 (20.98%) papers were published in ‘Science of the total environment’ followed by ‘Plos One’ with 90 publications. On the subject of affiliations, Beihang University (1228) was the top prolific …

Analysis Of Recent Trends In Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Nlp, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sonali Kothari Dr, Aarohi Prasad, Arunima Mishra, Varun Saha, Vinay Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Oralism is an ideology and practice that advocates communication that is based solely on speech. This practice is encouraged from a pretty early age in our country. As a consequence, the hard of hearing are constantly forced to negotiate with schools, colleges, organisations, workspaces, and families that don’t acknowledge the need and preference for sign language over oral languages. This results in inconsideration of an entire community for admissions, jobs and general social position. We aim to close that communication gap a little and take a step towards fighting the stigma associated with Sign Language. The aim is to provide …

A Scientometric Study Of Greenhouse Effect Research Output In India And China, Mohanathan P, Rajendran N

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article discuses the greenhouse effect research output from India and China, 3776 records published by both countries during 2010 to 2019 which is Indexed in Scopus Database. It is observed that the main producers of research output in the greenhouse effect are The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Anna University and National Environmental Engineering Research Institute India. The most number of publications were in 2019 with 990 (26.2%) articles and Wang Y topped with 179 publications. The …

Literature Schedule Practiced In Ddc 22nd And Cc 6th Revised Ed.: A Comparative Study, Binay Krishna Das Library Trainee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Classification in a library arranges the documents in classes based on mutual relationship between them and brings the like classes together and separates them from the unlike classes. It predominantly acts as the backbone of the library services provided in a library. In this study an attempt has been made to make an extensive study on how literature schedule is treated i.e. how class number building approach is carried out with the help of certain selected titles. An attempt has been made to delineate and outline how the literature schedule is practiced in different ways in both the classification scheme. …

Assessing The Impact Of Social Media Platforms On Students Learning Activities In The University Of Ghana Amidst Covid-19, Noah Darko-Adjei

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the impact of social media platforms on students learning activities among distance learning students of the University of Ghana amidst COVID-19. The study was based on the following objectives; to find out some of the devices used in accessing social media platforms, to ascertain the dominant reasons for using social media by distance learning students, to assess the impact of social media platforms on students’ academic activities and to found out the challenges in the use of some social media platforms. The study made use of a survey approach and a questionnaire was used to gather data …

Plagiarism: Awareness, Perception And Attitude Of Research Scholars In Farook College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, Nashwa Sharaf Mrs., Kadeeja Banu C V Mrs.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study is conducted on plagiarism awareness, perception, and attitude of research scholars in Farook College. There are 101 research scholars and the whole population is selected for the study. A questionnaire tool was used for data collection. The present study describes various aspects of plagiarism such as awareness of plagiarism, perception of plagiarism, use of plagiarism detection software, satisfaction with plagiarism detection software, use of citation styles, and awareness of punishments for plagiarism. The findings reveal that most of the research scholars are much aware of plagiarism and its consequences.

Scholarly Research On Serendipitous Retrieval Of Information (Information Encountering): A Bibliometric Analysis Of Literature Indexed In Scopus, Waqar Ahmad Awan Dr., Kanwal Ameen Dr., Saira Hanif Soroya Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper was to map literature on accidental discovery (information encountering), and present its quantitative analysis. To achieve the purpose of the study, data from Scopus database was used. Productivity and quality of top authors, institutions and countries was investigated. Additionally, top journals and their selection by top authors was also investigated. Findings of the study indicated that the term, theory, and model of information encountering originated from the USA, and was later spilled across the world. The USA remained the most cited and most impactful country. American scholar Erdelez, who was affiliated with the University of …

Annals Of Microbiology: A Bibliometric Analysis, Victoria P, Gomathi P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to measure the number of contributions made by the researchers in the field of Journal “Annals of Microbiology” and published on the Web of Science database during 2010-2020 using Bibliometric analysis. Data were analyzed using software such as Histcite, Bibexcel, Vos viewer and tabulated using MS Excel. Annals of Microbiology is operates a single-blind peer-review system. Currently published on England by BMC. It publishes four issues in a year. The years (2017, 2018, 2019) publishes 12 issues, and 2020 has publishes only one issue. This paper aimed to assess growth pattern of research output, …

Analysis And Publication Profile Of Indonesian Scientific Work In 2020 Based On The Scopus Database, Akbar Iskandar, Nico Djundharto Djajasinga, Andi Dirga Noegraha, Erwin Gatot, Ansari Saleh Ahmar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research was conducted to identify and describe the profile of publications in Indonesia in 2020. This research used the bibliometric methods. The data in this research were collected by searching through the Scopus database with the keywords: AFFILCOUNTRY “Indonesia” and PUBYEAR “2020” with the exception of AFFILCOUNTRY other than “Indonesia”. Data were then analyzed based on author affiliation, subject, document type, source type, source title, and language. The results of the research indicated that the development of Indonesian scientific publications was dominated by article types (50.69%) and conference papers (45.83%) with the subject area of publication dominated by engineering, …

Holistic Analysis Of Global Feminism Publications: A Bibliometric Evaluation Of Feminism Literature Between 1975 And 2017, Engin Şenel Dr, Seher Doğruer Şenel Dr., Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometrics is a relatively novel statistical branch investigating academic publications in a certain field. Although there has been an increasing popularity of bibliometric studies in recent years, scientific literature lacks a holistic analysis of feminism literature. To the best of our knowledge our study was the first bibliometric analysis of the publications in feminism literature. All data of this study was obtained from Web of Science databases. All documents produced in feminism literature between 1975 and 2017 were included. A total of 44,920 published articles were found. The peak year of feminism literature was 2017 with 3378 articles. English was …

Analytical Study Of The Most Citied International Research Journals Of Library And Information Science, Saeed Ullah Jan, Abid Hussain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The focus of this paper is on the research productivity and their relevant parameters of top twenty international journals of Library and Information Science from 2015 to 2019. The analysis of data revealed that Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JAIST) is the top cited journal followed by Scientometrics and Journal of Informetric during the mentioned period. The year 2015 was reported as the most productive year with 45% citations from the top twenty LIS journals. The average citation rate of Scholar Google is at the top followed by Scopus. “The sharing economy” was declared as the …

Mapping Knowledge In Higher Education: A Bibliometric Study Of Ugc Care List Of Lis Journals, Banani Das, Sanjay Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Various policies have been adopted worldwide for the upliftment of research work in higher education. The current paper is a study of initiatives taken by University Grant Commission (UGC), which is a statutory body set up by Indian Union Government to maintain the standards of higher education in India. The paper studied the quality journal list published by UGC-Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (UGC CARE) in LIS discipline. Top 20 journals has been analysed from the list in accordance to their ranking in Scimago journal ranking list. The articles are analysed as the most prolific author, prolific institute, most …

Scientometric Analysis Of Authorship Trends And Collaborative Research In Geochemistry, Ranganathan Chandrakasan, Sumathi Meyyar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study deals with the Scientometric study on the publication of "Geochemistry". The records are collected from Web of Science Databases for the period of 1989-2020. A total of 2603 papers were identified in Web of Science database. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journal and more numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 2603 literature published, 92.5% of the publication published under the joint author. Four thousand three hundred and eighty nine authors have contributed the total of 2603 articles. …

The Journal Of Information Science Theory And Practice (Jistap): A Bibliometric Analysis (2013-2017), Dr. Bindu Sharma, Ms Anuradha Sharma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present ‘Bibliometric’ study was undertaken in the Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP). 102 articles published in the journal during the period (2013-2017) were studied. The study analyses various bibliometric patterns and found that the maximum 41 (40.20%) articles were submitted by two authors, followed by a single author with 36, in total 35.29% publications. Author’s productivity was recorded 0.48 average publication per author and the overall degree of collaboration was 0.65. In the Lotka’s law of scientific productivity, it is analysed that the expected authors are different from observed authors. After the analysis, it was found …

Utilization Of District Central Libraries And Their Services: A Case Study Of Southern Districts Of Tamilnadu State, India, Pounraj P, Ravichandran M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Public libraries are the reservoirs of human civilizations. They shoulder the great responsibility of colleting, organizing, storing and disseminating the human knowledge over the generations. The present study aims at exploring how the users of district central libraries of southern districts of Tamil Nadu State, India are using the libraries in general and library services, in particular. Survey method was employed. Random sampling technique was used to draw 150 participants. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. 149 responded. The study reveals that : about two third of them (96, 64.4%) are male users ; About half of them (74, …

Provision Of Alternative Formats Of Information Resources For Inclusive Library Services Of Visually Impaired Primary School Pupils In Southeast Nigeria, Esther Ekene Aghauche Phd, Obiora Kingsley Udem Phd, Stephen Ikenna Aghauche

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper sought to determine the provision of alternative formats of information resources for inclusive library services of visually impaired primary school pupils in Southeast Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 129 respondents, comprising of 125 visually impaired pupils and four librarians from the four special education centres in Southeast Nigeria. One research question guided the study. Two instruments were used for data collection which includes an observation checklist, and interview guide. Data collected with the checklist were analyzed using frequency counts, while those from interviews were analyzed qualitatively and integrated …

Bibliometric Survey On Predictive Analysis Using Multiple Regression For Invoice Generation System, Chetana Nadekar, Subodh Awate, Dattatray Damse, Smita Khairnar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The research is exploring the opportunities available for the application of Predictive analysis using multi regression for invoice generation systems. We work by analyzing the data generated and saved in the database of the clinic. This database contains the financial operations along and also contains other useful information that is being gathered about the patients.

We are proposing a different approach for a billing system to make the task easier for the generation of invoices for the clinic. The mapping of the relational data and using a predictive model that is based on a regression analysis that will predict the …

I Never Quite Got It, What They Meant: An Introduction To Poetic Teaching, Alecia Beymer, Scott Jarvie

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

We have become well-familiar with how unpoetic teaching can be. The prevalence, furthered by much recent reform, of a systematic school culture focused on accountability, standardisation, and learnification often renders teaching dehumanised work. This paper theorises a poetics of teaching. We begin considering poetics, focusing on figurative language as a concept at the core of the art. Figurative language offers a model for figurative education, in which teachers treat their practice as metaphors treat language, a move that opens education towards complexity and ambiguity. Further, we consider what makes poetry matter to people: resonance, or the relational aspects of writing. …

Bibliometric Survey On Multipurpose Face Recognition System Using Deep Learning, Priyanka Tupe-Waghmare, Rahul Raghvendra Joshi Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Face recognition is a new concept coming up lately and flourishing in the field of network access and multimedia information systems. Since humans are at the focus of attention in variety of applications containing videos, the concept of face recognition is rising in popularity. Several areas involving network security, retrieval and indexing of the content, and compression of videos gain a lot of benefit from the face recognition systems and related technology. Controlling the access of the networks with the help of facial recognition not only makes it difficult for the hackers to steal the information but also makes the …

Scholarly Conversations, Intellectual Virtues, And Virtue Information Literacy, Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article develops a concept of Virtue Information Literacy (VIL) modeled on the philosophical subfields of virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. VIL is an ethical, character-based approach analyzing information literacy through intellectual virtues and vices in order to cultivate such virtues with the goal of living a more flourishing life. The article explains the foundation of VIL in virtue ethics and virtue epistemology; analyzes recent work making similar connections between information literacy, virtue epistemology, and intellectual virtues and vices; and finally with the aid of Richard Rorty’s pragmatism and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics analyzes some intellectual virtues especially useful for …

Indonesian Journal Of Applied Linguistics: A Bibliometric Portrait Of Ten Publication Years, Abdul Syahid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometric portraits of a single journal appear to be rarely taken in the field of applied linguistics. Viewed from the angles of publication, citation, and indexation, one of the journals worth a bibliometric portrait is the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Casting local and regional concerns on the global applied linguistics, the journal has ranked among the big five Open Access Journals in the Asiatic region since its foundation in 2011. Capturing a corpus of 426 documents by 824 authors from 144 organizations through two free bibliometric tools, i.e. Publish or Perish and VOSviewer, this study portrays the journal …

The Public Libraries Perspective In Pakistan: A Study On Empirical Problems, Mohammad Hussain, Dr. Haroon Idress

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study examined the problems faced by the public of Pakistan. It also analyzed the demographic information of the libraries and further reviewed the designation, qualifications, and professional experience of the heads/in-charge of public libraries.

Research Methodology: The census-based survey was conducted, and data was collected from the 119 public libraries through the structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version-23) and both descriptive and inferential stats were applied to analyze the data and interpret the results.

Key Findings: The heads of 91 libraries were LIS professionals, while 28 libraries were run by …

Mapping The Scholarship On Mental Health During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Scientometric View, Manju N. Dubey, Pooja P. Dadhe. Assistant Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Mental health has been a major concern worldwide even before the emergence of novel coronavirus. The evolving nature of the virus and the fatality rate has increased the psychological distress among people across all age groups. This study is an attempt to explore the research productivity on mental health research during COVID-19 pandemic to combat the disease by means of enhancing awareness and preventive measures as some countries are going through the second wave of the viral attack. The research contribution on mental health during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic appears to be slow in pace not going with the need …

Flawed Citations In Indian Scientometric Literature: A Case Study, Dr. Vishnu Kumar Gupta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study explores the citation errors and level of reference accuracy in the Indian scientometric journal entitled, Journal of Scientometric Research (JSR). One hundred and seventy four journal citations appended in eight research articles appeared in the JSR, volume 9, issue 1, Jan-Apr, 2020, were checked meticulously by breaking them into seven bibliographic components, i.e. author(s) name, article title, journal name, year, volume and issue numbers, and pages (both first and last page); and they were matched with the original source articles. Results reveal that 44.25% (77) citations in JSR were erroneous and remaining 55.75% (97) citations were error free. …

Trends In Reading Habits Of Students From School Level To Higher Levels Of Education: Evidence From The Review Of Literature, Jiarlimon Khongtim

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper discusses the trends in reading habits of students from school level to higher (College and University) levels of education through the review of related literature. It reveals the different choices of reading materials, the time spent on reading, the purpose of reading and the most preferred place for reading when the students are at different levels of education. It also highlighted the factors which affect and motivate the reading habits of the students.

Research Productivity Of Library Philosophy And Practice During The Period Of Covid 19, Anwar Muhammad Muhammad Mr, Tang Zhiwei Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present research purpose is to investigate the publishing trends of LPP during the COVID-19 from 2020 to 2021. The quantitative research design and survey method have been used to retrieve data from the website of LPP with the full-text article. The collected data has been analyzed using quantification tools. The parameters were set for this study are the frequency of publication growth, author’s collaborations, degree of author collaboration, papers length, and most productive regions. The data revealed 860 research papers were collected during the COVID-19 era. Where 844 papers were published in 2020 and 16 were published in 2021 …