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Development And Validation Of The Librarian’S Happiness Program Based On Fordyce Happiness Fundamentals, Leili Seifi, Maryam Hassanzadeh, Mitra Rastgoumoghadam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was conducted to develop and validate a happiness program for librarians based on Fordyce's happiness fundamentals. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and educational program construction. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, by qualitative content analysis, the steps of developing the training program and its validity were performed. Based on the findings of the content validity index, the approved activities were divided into services such as providing ancillary services, providing social services, providing independent learning services, refreshing the public library environment, and so on. The activities expressed in the content validity …

Plotting The Literature On Learning Outcomes And Academic Performance In Higher Education From 2001 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad Anwar, Bilal Shaukat

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This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly used. The high majority of these published documents are published in the English language and gradually increased in the number of published documents in terms of the year. Further, the author Chamorro-Premuzic T is the top author with 1139 citations and Univ. Grandada at top of twenty …

Google Scholar Adoption By Lis Educators In India: An Exploratory Study, Subham Giri, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty

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Google Scholar (GS) is one of the popular online databases fulfilling the research needs of academicians by providing an open and freely accessible platform for searching scholarly research along with basic research metrics (citations, h-index, i10, etc.) to assess productivity of an author or researcher. Now that GS is being used to measure the research performance of individual’s as-well-as institutions, it becomes very important to maintain a verified profile. This paper aims to analyse dual inter-related issues. Quantify LIS schools in India are the primary focus area of the study. Secondly, the scenario of LIS educators of India under GS …

Users’ Satisfaction On Sc/St Book Bank Scheme Through Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis, Kutty Kumar Dr, Kutty Kumar Dr

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Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) is used to predict an ordinal structured variable given one or more independent variables. In this study, OLR used to decide the level of satisfaction on SC/ST book bank scheme (ordinal independent variable), measured on a five-point Likert type scale from “completely dissatisfied-1 through completely satisfied-5, depending on the discernment of ‘life science’ and ‘engineering students belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Tribe (ST)’. Model appropriateness depends on determining which explanatory variables considered for the model and selecting the link function (complementary log-log link function used in this study). Likewise, the model fitting perceptions, the accuracy …

Scholarly Open Access Veterinary And Animal Science Journals Indexed In The Doaj: A Bibliometric Analysis, Ganesan Rathinasabapathy, Koti Veeranjaneyulu

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The objective of this study is to report the outcome of the bibliometric analysis of Open Access (OA) journals in veterinary and animal sciences (VAS) indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).The DOAJ which indexed 16,460 open access journals as on 10 June 2021, contains 335 open access veterinary and animal science journals (2.03%) and provides access to 1,63,500 articles which is about 2.63% of the total articles. Two journals were indexed in 2003 and the highest number of journals i.e. 46 (13.73%) were added during 2018. The 335 OA journals are contributed by 63 countries and the …

Covid-19 And Nursing: A Scientometric Mapping Of Global Literature During 2020-2021, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Jayasuriya T., Srinivasaragavan S., Rosaline Mary A.

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The main aim of this paper is to analyze the global Covid-19 and Nursing literature to discover underlying trends and developments at the global, national, institutional, and individual level using Scientometric indicators. The publications and citations data for the study were sourced from the Web of Science database published during 2020–2021. The most productive and leading countries are: USA with 621 (43.4%) share far by China with 136(9.5%), UK with 108 (7.5%) share and Australia with 101(7.1%) share and other countries are published less than 5% of publications. India possessed 14^th rank with 15 (1.0%) publications share. International collaboration …

Top 100 Cited Publications In Education: A Bibliometric Analysis, Poornima Devi

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The focus of the present study is to analyse the top 100 cited papers in the field of Education. The study is aimed to provide insight into the citation pattern, authorship pattern, year, journals, countries, etc. of these top cited papers with the help of bibliometric analysis. The data for the study was extracted from the Web of Science database. The results of the study indicate that the majority of these 100 top papers were published from 2002 to 2006. Educational Psychologist, Academic Medicine and Review of Educational Research were the foremost journals while Taylor and Francis and Sage Publications …

Knowledge Mapping, Intellectual Capital And Organizational Intelligence, Gautam Gogoi, Dr. Pranab Kr. Barooah

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Knowledge management initiatives rely on maps to locate internal knowledge, similar to how an explorer in the wilderness follows a map. Knowledge maps, like travel maps, are static. A knowledge map is a “snapshot in time” that helps businesses understand and organize knowledge assets. It's anything but an express model inside a business cycle of who has the information, where the information is found, and why it is significant. Perhaps the most well known strategies for recognizing information in associations is information planning. It can help chiefs to all the more likely comprehend the information stream inside the associations. Planning …

Assessment Of Literature Growth In Anthropometric Measurement Research: A Bibliometric Analyses Of Scopus Indexed Publications, Khadeeja M N Ansari, Norizzah Binti Nabi Khan, Nur Fadhilah Binti Mohd Omar, Hala A. El-Wakeel, Md Safiqur Rahaman

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Purpose: To evaluate the global published literature in anthropometric measurement research between 1971-2021. Anthropometry is the study of the size and shape of the human body generally refers to the measurements and data used to characterize the size of human users.

Method: Scientometric and bibliometric tools applied to analyze the research published indexed in the Scopus database. The study focused on indices, namely annual research growth, impactful author, relevant source, country collaboration, productive organization, country, etc. MS Excel, Bibexcel, RStudio (Biblioshiny), Scientopy, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer are used for the quantitative analysis.

Results: There is steady growth in the literature of …

Plotting The Literature On Precautionary Measures Of Covid-19: A Scientometric Analysis Of Web Of Science, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Abeel Naseer

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This study attempted to evaluate the scholarly publications on COVID-19, social distance, physical distance, social isolation, and self-isolation employing the scientometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The main purpose was to consolidate the published scholarship on the COVID-19 in the Web of Science indexed documents. A total of 635 publications were found. The results indicated that social distance and COVID-19 was the top topic along with the article as a type of document, and the majority were published in the English language in 2021. The name of Gimenez-Llort L was at top of the list of authors, along with …

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 …

Open Educational Resources (Oer) Issues And Problems Experienced By Social Scientists Of Select Higher Educational Institutions In India, Amit Kumar, Diganta Baishya, Manashjyoti Deka

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Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore the OER issues and problems experienced by social scientists at select higher educational institutions in India. In addition, the study also focuses on to create awareness about the concept and recommends some points to improve the OER practice.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The relevant data for the study was obtained through a well-structured questionnaire followed by personal interview wherever it was required. The well-structured & precise questionnaire was distributed to 300 social scientists (research scholars and faculty) of different higher educational institutes such as University of Delhi (DU), Mizoram University (MZU), Jawaharlal Nehru …

Publication Productivity Of Women Physicists In India: A Scientometrics Study, Bebi Dabas

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The present study focused on the research publications of women faculty in the field of physics, Astrophysics, Astronomy and Atmospheric Science in India. To collect the data we have covered the women faculty of Central Universities, State Universities, IITs, NITs, IISER’s, NISER’s, research institutes, laboratories and some selected deemed universities. The first fact we found was that the number of women were very less as compare to male staff. To see the publication productivity of women authors we tried to analyze the year-wise productivity, authorship pattern, preferred journals, place and designation and the research papers received highest citations for the …

Lgbtq Notion Evaluation: A Bibliometric Analysis And Systematic Review, Poonam Gautam, Dr. Ajay Solkhe

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Several conservative sectors and employers are embracing equality objectives, including financial institutions, for example, more importantly, there has been a change in attitude and support towards the LGBT+ issues, which has been noticed in other professions and companies, including law and accountancy. The LGBT group includes Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals and Transgender sexual orientation. Gay men and heterosexuals have also been observed to be in these groups. If we talk only about sexual orientation, we should avoid using the label “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” More than one of these labels can recognise and identify a person. The organization should review …

Principals’ Management Of Library Resources And Teachers’ Lesson Preparation Practices In Secondary Schools: A Predictive Evaluation, Valentine Joseph Owan, Rosemary O. Osim Ph.D., Emanghe E. Emanghe Ph.D., Eyiene Ameh Ph.D., John Asuquo Ekpenyong

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The literature is predominated by studies seeking to clarify the extent of the availability, functionality, accessibility and/or utilisation of library materials in schools at various levels. The extent of principals' management of library resources and their contribution to the lesson preparation activities of teachers seems to have been under-researched. In bridging the gap, the current study was designed to assess the extent and contribution of principals’ management of library resources to teachers’ lesson preparation practices. Six specific objectives were of interest to the researchers. The quantitative research method, following the ex-post facto research design, was adopted. The stratified proportional random …

Students’ Knowledge On Library And Information Science (Lis): An Option For Choosing A Career, Elizabeth Allan Lascano

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Library and Information Science (LIS) is a degree program being offered in the different HEIs in the country though this program has been offered long time ago there are few takers of the said program. This study analyzed the level of knowledge of senior high school students on LIS as a career. Further, this study looked into significant differences in terms of knowledge when grouped according to sex and track. Also, this study explored on the possibilities of senior high school students to enrol in the LIS program. The output of this study is to assess their knowledge and to …

Library And Information Science Professional Skills And Entrepreneurial Intention Among Undergraduates Of Universities, Martina Ekpenyong Ekeng Dr., Abimbola Labake Agboke Dr.

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This study investigated the relationship between Library and Information Science Professional Skills and

Entrepreneurial Intention among Undergraduates of Universities Cross River States and the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The correlational survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 284 undergraduates and this was also used as the sample. A validated research-made questionnaire with a reliability range of 0.71- 0.79 was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that acquisition of the following variables: indexing …

Research Visualization Of Different Treatment Modalities To Treat Covid-19 Infection: Bibliometric Analysis Of Pubmed Database, Abeel Naseer, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Imtiaz Ahmad

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This paper designed to examine research published in PubMed indexed journals of different treatment modalities to treat COVID -19 infection employing bibliometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The purpose was to consolidate the published scholarly work in the PubMed database on different treatment modalities including vaccine, oxygen supplementation, dexamethasone or steroids, aspirin, heparin, remdesivir, zinc, vitamin c or ascorbic acid, oxygen, anti-malarial like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin or macrolides. We employed a bibliometric analysis technique and found a total of 3043 published documents. The study findings depicted that vaccine and COVID-19 top was at the top of the …

Scientometric Review Of Archnet-Ijar: International Journal Of Architectural Research: A Study Of Scopus Based Evidence, Md Safiqur Rahaman, Khadeeja M N Ansari

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Purpose: The study conducted to assess the Archnet-IJAR journals based on scientometric analysis, a systematic approach to the comprehensive review of research trends and productivity.

Methodology: The scientometric tools used to examine the journal's scientific research performances during 2011-2020 collected data from the Scopus database and analyzed in Vosviewer and Biblioshiny ((R language). Results: There are 424 research papers published from 2011 to 2020. A steady increase noted in the development of literature, out of 694 authors and 547 multi-authored documents found. Architecture, Architectural Education, and Design Studio found highly used author keywords. Qatar identified as the most impactful country …

Professional Variables And Staff Readiness To Utilise Internet-Based Channels For Research Communication In An Era Of Covid-19, Valentine Joseph Owan, Levi Udochukwu Akah Phd., Mary Mark Ogbeche, Moses Eteng Obla

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This study assessed the professional variables of academic staff in African varsities and their readiness to Utilise Internet-Based Channels for Research Communication in an era of Covid-19. Drawing from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, the study was guided by four null hypotheses. The quantitative research method based on the virtual cross-sectional survey design was adopted. A total of 8,591 academics in African universities were the targeted demographic of this study. However, data were collected from a virtual snowball sample of 1,977 respondents (males, N = 1347; females, N = 630) from 24 African countries. A validated electronic survey, with three …

Effects Of Self-Concept And Use Of Information On Academic Performance Of Accounting Undergraduates In Selected Universities In South-West, Nigeria., Kehinde Omolade, Bolanle Adeleye

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This study examined effects of self-concept and use of information on academic performance of accounting undergraduates in South-west, Nigeria. It was reported that students and individuals often form their self-concept from past experience of success or failure. Some academic libraries have not been adequately stocked with study facilities to improve students’ academic performance with the resultant effects of failure which invariably influence their self-concept academically. The data for the study was collected by the use of questionnaire and statistical package for social science (SPSS) to calculate the mean and standard deviation. Pearson correlation analysis was used to test stated hypotheses. …

Scientific Mapping Of Research On Digital Pulmonary Function Test: A Bibliometric Analysis, Aditya Kekre Mr., Ashutosh Desai Mr., Ashwin Sujit Mr., Dhruv Dewett Mr., Shilpa Hudnurkar Prof.

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Digital Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) is a non-invasive test that helps in evaluating the efficiency of a patient’s lungs. The test is key to keeping tabs on a patient’s health that may be suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, Restrictive Respiratory Disease, etc, as pollution increases day by day in the world the amount of people getting affected from it and being diagnosed with respiratory diseases the importance of PFT continues to grow. The Scopus database has been used exclusively for this analysis. A key observation of this survey has been that engineering and medicine have gone hand in …

Measuring The Impact Of Legal Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage Among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Angie R. Wootton, Cat Munroe, Libo Li, Karen F. Trocki, Tonda Hughes

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Reductions in structural stigma, such as gaining access to legalized same-sex marriage, is associated with positive psychological and physical health outcomes among sexual minority adults. However, these positive outcomes may be less robust among sexual minority women (SMW; e.g., lesbian, bisexual, queer) than sexual minority men and new measures are needed to develop a more nuanced understanding of the impact of affirming policies on the health and well-being of SMW. This study assessed the psychometric properties of measures developed to assess the psychosocial impacts of legalized same-sex marriage on the lives of SMW. Participants (N = 446) completed an online …

The Effect Of Librarians’ Happiness Program On The Quality Services Of Iranian Public Libraries From The Perspective Of The Users, Leili Seifi, Maryam Hassanzadeh, Mitra Rastgoumoghadam

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of librarians' happiness programs on the service quality from the perspective of Iranian public library users. To this end, 25 active users’ two libraries were randomly placed in the control and experimental groups. The result showed that although the theoretical part of the research could not achieve significant predicted results, the beginning and planning of applied and operational research fosters creativity and innovation in this social institution such as public libraries. Achieving this requires the provision of preliminaries, including the creation of authoritative scientific texts in the field of public …

Global Analysis Of High Cited Papers On “Impact Of Covid-19 On Mental Health” During 2020-21, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur Mr., Brij Mohan Gupta Dr., Sandeep Grover Dr.

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A bibliometric analysis based on 160 highly cited papers extracted from the Scopus international database was carried out to provide insights into literature characteristics and publication performances of various participating actors on “Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health”. Quantitative and qualitative Indicators were applied to measure the productivity and citation impact of most productive participating countries, organizations, authors, journals and significant keywords and to visualise and measure collaborative interaction among them using VOSviewer software. Results obtained from this study can provide valuable information for researchers and policy-makers to identify present and future hotspots in research on “Impact of COVID-19 on …

Library Use And Satisfaction Of Undergraduate Students Of University Of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State, Akor Solomon Obotu Mr, Ikani Joshua Adaji, Okechukwu Obedia Chukwuka, Umar Danladi Abubakar, Mohammed Umar Galadima

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Single-Center Task Analysis And User-Centered Assessment Of Physical Space Impacts On Emergency Cesarean Delivery, Kenji T. Sotto, Laura C. Hedli, Lillian Sie, Kimber Padua, Nicole Yamada, Henry Lee, Louis Halamek, Kay Daniels, Dan Nathan-Roberts, Naola S. Austin

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Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery performed in the United States, accounting for approximately 32% of all births. Emergency Cesarean deliveries are performed in the event of critical maternal or fetal distress and require effective collaboration and coordination of care by a multidisciplinary team with a high level of technical expertise. It is not well understood how the physical environment of the operating room (OR) impacts performance and how specialties work together in the space. Objective This study aimed to begin to address this gap using validated techniques in human factors to perform a participatory user-centered analysis of physical …

Research Growth Of Balochistan University Faculty: A Bibliometric Study Of Jehr (Journal Of Education And Humanities Research) From 2016 To 2020., Anwar Muhammad Mr, Tang Zhiwei Dr

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This research study aims to find out the research productivity of the Journal of Education & Humanities Research (JEHR) from 2016 to 2020. The present study also finds the frequency of productivity, author collaboration, paper length, most cited papers, and most productive authors and most productive departments and universities. The present research finds the 107 research articles have been contributed by University faculty members. The highest number of papers has been published 44 in 2018 and 20 papers were published in 2017. The current study finds the vol.5 and vol.6. Contributed 21 and 23 research articles respectively. This present study …

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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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 …

A Comparison Of Scholarly Journal Evaluation Between Indonesia And South Korea, Ayu Shabrina, Hani Febri Mustika, Yaniasih Yaniasih, Ambar Yoganingrum, Jungyeoun Lee

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Indonesian government has succeeded in increasing the number of local scientific journals. However, in terms of quality, such as the number of citations and errors in bibliographic writing still requires to be improved. This paper aims to explore the problems in Indonesian scientific journals' evaluation system by comparing the system to South Korea. The country has local journals like Indonesia. This paper uses references desk for collecting the data. The paper is focused on discussing publishers and journal citation databases. The conclusions are drawn by making arguments and reasons based on critical thinking analyzes. At the end of the paper, …