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Bibliometric Indicators For Assessing The Quality Of Scholarly Communications: A Case Study On International Journal Of Cooperative Information Systems, Basudev Mohanty, Jyotshna Sahoo, Nrusingh Kumar Dash Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper analyses various bibliometric dimensions of the journal literature such as authors’ productivity, geographical distribution, citation pattern, institution-wise distribution of articles, discipline-wise distributions of articles, productive institutions, Productivity Index (PI), Activity Index (AI), Domestic Collaborative Index (DCI) and International Collaborative Index (ICI) etc. It also explores the applicability of Lotka’s Inverse Square Law and Zipf’s Law to examine the observed rank – frequency pattern of Keywords and Subject Terms of Information Systems (IS) literature. To illustrate these bibliometric indicators pertinent information on the field of Information Systems (IS) collected from EBSCO database for the International Journal of Cooperative Information …