Publication Trends in Annals of Library and Information Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis
Author : Dr.S.Parameshwar and Dr. Shankar Reddy KolleVolume 6 No.1 January-June 2016 pp 12-19
Abstract
A bibliometric analysis of articles published in Annals of Library and Information Studies for the period from 2006 to 2015 have been undertaken. The data were downloaded from the Indian Citation Index database. This study aims at analyzing the research output performance of Library scientists on library & information science subjects. The analyses include year-wise publication of articles, authorship patterns, institutions-wise publication of contributions, state wise, city wise and country wise publication of articles. A total of 335 articles were published in the journal with an average of 33.5 articles per year. The journal had received articles from 19 countries. The result showed that out of 335 articles, majority of the articles were contributed by joint authors (218; 65.07%). Most of the articles were contributed from Delhi and USA also has contributed 4 articles for the period.
Keywords
ALIS, LISc, Citation Analysis, Publication Trends, Bibliometric, Authorship pattern, Geographical distribution.