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KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management
IP Indian Journal of Library Science and Information Technology, 2021
An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and pr... more An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. Its repositories provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. This paper deals with Comparative analysis of India and Australia repositories listed in OpenDOAR in terms of their growth, type, operational status, content type, software, subject coverage, language and policies regarding content, submission, and preservation.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the publications reflected in the Library Assessment Conf... more The purpose of this paper is to analyze the publications reflected in the Library Assessment Conference (LAC) Proceedings from 2006 to 2014. Taking data from the online Library Assessment Conference Proceedings, we constructed a data set to study various bibliometric dimensions in terms of research topics, growth of literature, authorship distribution, and collaboration pattern. The finding suggest that, the contribution to LAC proceeding has steadily been increased. Some of the authors and organizations have shown their loyalty to the LAC and contributed in every proceeding from 2006 to 2014. It shows that 6 organizations have contributed in all the LAC proceedings with “University of Washington, USA tops the list with 32 contributions Similarly, the study of authors loyalty to LAC shows that 6 authors have shown their loyalty by contributing papers in all the LAC proceedings. “Martha Kyrillidou” and “Megan J. Oakleaf” tops the list with 12 contributions.
Electronic Government, an International Journal
Research programmes at the Ph.D. level in Library and Information Science carried out in India du... more Research programmes at the Ph.D. level in Library and Information Science carried out in India during the seven years (1997-2003) have been analyzed to find out the trends and areas of research, growth pattern and productivity of universities along with broad and narrow subject areas in the discipline. Presents the analysis of the study with the primary goal of appraising the perspective LIS research community to make them aware of the direction of research.
This paper evaluates the performance of the 14 most productive Central Universities in Social Sci... more This paper evaluates the performance of the 14 most productive Central Universities in Social Sciences research. The study is based on the Scopus Indexing database for the period from 2009 to 2018 where the total records retrieved were 7278. Results revealed that journal articles were the most preferred form of publication with 4293 (59%) research papers and the mean annual growth rate of publications was 1.01 while the Mean RGR (Relative Growth Rate) and DT (Doubling Time) were 0.314 and 2.751 respectively. The total number of citations received was 38456 with 5.77 mean citations per paper. Out of the total retrieved records, 4504 papers were cited and the share of open access citation was 71.9 percentage. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University (DU), and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) emerged as the top three universities in Social Sciences research based on Total Publications (TP), Total Citations (TC), Highly Cited Papers (HCP), h-index and g-index. The p index of JNU, AMU, and DU are 35.68, 34.53, and 33.64 respectively. The mean of various bibliometric indicators namely, DC, CI, CC, and MCC were found to be 0.605, 2.306, 0.393, and 0.394 respectively. Economic and Political Weekly was the most prolific journal and R. H. Khan of AMU was the most productive author during the study period with 42 papers and with an h-index of 18.
Digital preservation is an evolving area of research for libraries, archives, and museums across ... more Digital preservation is an evolving area of research for libraries, archives, and museums across the globe over the last two decades. Due to the growing recognition of the need to address various issues dealt with digital preservation, this field of study has generated quite a range of scholarly communications on several aspects. The present paper aims to examine critically the extant literature on "digital preservation and libraries" for the period from 2001 to 2019 and to assess the evolving trajectory and trends. Out of a total of 1292 extracted records from the Scopus database, a total of 710 articles are considered for the study purpose after the exclusion of non-relevant articles. Employing bibliometric indicators the study primarily assessed the publication pattern, document types, the most prolific authors, most contributing institutions, and focus areas of study as well as the geographical distribution of publications. Along with this, the VOSviewer software is used for co-author network analysis. The findings of the current analysis reveal that the highest number of papers published in the source journal "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" while the U.S.A. is in the top spot among the countries and author Nelson, M. L. from the U.S.A. has published the maximum number of research papers. It also provides information on various forms of publication on digital preservation and the impactful papers. Though there are studies on the assessment of digital libraries and digital repositories, a bibliometric assessment of literature on digital preservation is a novel attempt. As a metric study, it reflects the relative position of a country, an institution, and a researcher.
The very purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of the doctoral research works... more The very purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of the doctoral research works produced by Indian Universities in the discipline of Sociology during the period from 2004 to 2017. The study is based on the secondary data, compiled from the authentic Indian data source on doctoral research known as "University News". It aims to find out the developmental trends of Sociology research, the productivity of states, universities, and supervisors as well as languages and gender-wise productivity of Sociology doctoral research. It also aims to find out the most frequently occurred key words and the research areas associated with these keywords through a qualitative analysis of the titles of the research works done in the discipline. The study revealed that in all, 1333 doctoral degrees were awarded from 104 universities, guided by 676 supervisors. Delhi, the National Capital Territory of India proved its research competence by emerging as a leading destination of Sociology research in India. Similarly, at the institution level, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) found to be the prominent institution that awarded the maximum number of doctoral degrees (200) among the universities. A K Pandey (University of Lucknow) and Anand Kumar (JNU) are the most prolific supervisors who have guided to a maximum of 19 scholars each during the period of study. Research works on 'Women' focused on aspects like, 'social presence', 'profession', 'empowerment', 'health', 'crime', 'education', and other related issues on different communities are found to be the Indian scholars' most favoured research areas in sociology.
DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 2021
The purpose of the work is to make a quantitative and qualitative assessment of published researc... more The purpose of the work is to make a quantitative and qualitative assessment of published research on fake news in light of the Library and Information Science (LIS) perspective and show the research trends. Essential metadata elements were collected from the SCOPUS bibliographic database pertaining to fake news with specific reference to the LIS domain from 2017 to 2020 for the research work and analysed as per the research objectives. While the bibliometric indicators and R package has been used to study the various quantitative dimensions of publication patterns of the research papers, qualitative content analysis has been used to determine the emerging areas of research on fake news within the discipline. The quantitative analysis reveals that a good number of research works (N=133) have been published in as many as 52 academic journals of LIS that received 628 citations. “Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology” is the most productive journal that ...
The present study is modeled with the purpose to explore the quantitative and qualitative assessm... more The present study is modeled with the purpose to explore the quantitative and qualitative assessment of global Management Information System (MIS) research by using various bibliometric indicators on International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) journal literature. It examines and presents an analysis of 180 research communications published during the period 1999-2009 in the area of MIS. The present study significantly examines the various bibliometric dimensions of the journal literature such as growth of literature, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, authors' productivity, geographical distribution, citation pattern, length of articles, institution-wise distribution of articles, journal matrix, discipline-wise distributions of articles, productive institutions and prolific authors etc.
Library Philosophy and Practice, 2018
Measuring the research quality of academics to assess the performance of departments, research in... more Measuring the research quality of academics to assess the performance of departments, research institutes, universities or even the researchers by themselves is a trend now across the globe. Quality is a journey which can only be judged through the scholarly communications produced, especially papers published in journals. However, assessing the quality of individual papers by peer review is not trouble-free and sometimes leads to disagreement too. Partly for these reasons, the quality of the journal that the paper is published in is widely taken into consideration for the quality of the paper itself. The present study explores the publication pattern of scholarly articles of the Journal “Information Processing and Management,” a leading international journal published by Elsevier and indexed under Science Direct Database. It examines and presents an analysis of 550 articles (under Top25 hottest article of Science Direct) cited within the period from 2008 to 2013.The scholarly artic...
The basic purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of Indian contribution towards... more The basic purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of Indian contribution towards open access journal movement, particularly the journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)-a service from Lund University. It seeks to explore the relative position of India among other countries and provides an analysis of the indexed journals from several parameters. A list of 318 Indian OA journals indexed in DOAJ has been served as the data source. The relevant metadata for each indexed journal such as title of the journal, journal URL, ISSN, country of publication, language, year since added in DOAJ, LCC subject category, APC charges of journals, publisher and publishers' keywords and Journal license and other licensing attributes were analyzed to get the outcome. The study suggests India's standing in the domain of open access scholarly publishing and establishes that India is one among the most productive countries those support universal access to knowledge. This study acts as a reference tool for the scholarly community in the disciplines of Medical Sciences, Basic Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences to have access to the published research works crossing the geographical barrier.
Library Philosophy and Practice, 2017
The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) is an online open access peerreviewed journ... more The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) is an online open access peerreviewed journal that publishes articles with regard to the development of both theory and practice in the field of Knowledge Management. The present paper examines the articles published in EJKM during the period from 2003-13 for identifying the publication output, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, most prolific contributors, geographical distribution of papers, referencing pattern, self citation pattern and several other characteristics. The results of this study reveal that that the year 2009 is the most productive year, research papers are given more importance than other categories of publications. Majority of papers are multi-authored. The degree of collaboration is found to be 0.70. The geographical distribution reveals that the contribution by United Kingdom is highest.
Performance Measurement and Metrics, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the classic characteristics of highly cited artic... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the classic characteristics of highly cited articles (HCAs) of top-ranked library and information science (LIS) journals and get acquainted with the high-quality works in specific areas of LIS for distinguishing what gets cited and who the prolific authors are. Design/methodology/approach The HCAs published across the top four LIS journals were downloaded, coded and a database was developed with basic metadata elements for analysis using bibliometric indicators. Lotka’s Inverse Square Law of Scientific Productivity was applied to assess the author’s productivity of HCA. The content analysis method was also used to find out the emerging areas of research that have sought high citations. Findings Inferences were drawn for the proposed five number of research questions pertaining to individual productivity, collaboration patterns country and institutional productivity, impactful areas of research. The Netherland found to be the potential ...
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2018
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2017
The present study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a... more The present study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The prime objective of the study is to explore quantitatively the inclusion of Library & Information Science Journal from several perspectives. It is found that there are 158 LIS journals indexed in DOAJ published from 43 countries in 21 different languages. While English is the dominant language of publication 3 journals are published simultaneously in five languages. India occupies the fifth rank sharing a common position with its counterparts like Poland and United Kingdom with six Indian LIS journals indexed in DOAJ. The sustainability of LIS journals in open access domain is clearly reflected from the study.
Managing Knowledge and Scholarly Assets in Academic Libraries
The very purpose of the paper is to explore, assess and to determine the elements of knowledge ma... more The very purpose of the paper is to explore, assess and to determine the elements of knowledge management as an academic discipline. At the beginning, the paper explains the concepts of knowledge, knowledge management and the characteristics of an academic discipline. A structured framework with six criteria suggested by Kuhn (1996) outlining an academic discipline has been applied to evaluate and to put forward a comprehensive understanding Knowledge Management (KM) as an academic discipline. In order to gather relevant data as per the criteria, many sources have been relied upon. Findings reveal that KM meets and supports all the laid down criteria as it has its own body of knowledge, specialized journals, academic curricula, professional societies and can be considered as a progressive academic discipline and scholarly field of study with its own tradition and history.
KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management
IP Indian Journal of Library Science and Information Technology, 2021
An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and pr... more An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. Its repositories provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. This paper deals with Comparative analysis of India and Australia repositories listed in OpenDOAR in terms of their growth, type, operational status, content type, software, subject coverage, language and policies regarding content, submission, and preservation.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the publications reflected in the Library Assessment Conf... more The purpose of this paper is to analyze the publications reflected in the Library Assessment Conference (LAC) Proceedings from 2006 to 2014. Taking data from the online Library Assessment Conference Proceedings, we constructed a data set to study various bibliometric dimensions in terms of research topics, growth of literature, authorship distribution, and collaboration pattern. The finding suggest that, the contribution to LAC proceeding has steadily been increased. Some of the authors and organizations have shown their loyalty to the LAC and contributed in every proceeding from 2006 to 2014. It shows that 6 organizations have contributed in all the LAC proceedings with “University of Washington, USA tops the list with 32 contributions Similarly, the study of authors loyalty to LAC shows that 6 authors have shown their loyalty by contributing papers in all the LAC proceedings. “Martha Kyrillidou” and “Megan J. Oakleaf” tops the list with 12 contributions.
Electronic Government, an International Journal
Research programmes at the Ph.D. level in Library and Information Science carried out in India du... more Research programmes at the Ph.D. level in Library and Information Science carried out in India during the seven years (1997-2003) have been analyzed to find out the trends and areas of research, growth pattern and productivity of universities along with broad and narrow subject areas in the discipline. Presents the analysis of the study with the primary goal of appraising the perspective LIS research community to make them aware of the direction of research.
This paper evaluates the performance of the 14 most productive Central Universities in Social Sci... more This paper evaluates the performance of the 14 most productive Central Universities in Social Sciences research. The study is based on the Scopus Indexing database for the period from 2009 to 2018 where the total records retrieved were 7278. Results revealed that journal articles were the most preferred form of publication with 4293 (59%) research papers and the mean annual growth rate of publications was 1.01 while the Mean RGR (Relative Growth Rate) and DT (Doubling Time) were 0.314 and 2.751 respectively. The total number of citations received was 38456 with 5.77 mean citations per paper. Out of the total retrieved records, 4504 papers were cited and the share of open access citation was 71.9 percentage. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University (DU), and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) emerged as the top three universities in Social Sciences research based on Total Publications (TP), Total Citations (TC), Highly Cited Papers (HCP), h-index and g-index. The p index of JNU, AMU, and DU are 35.68, 34.53, and 33.64 respectively. The mean of various bibliometric indicators namely, DC, CI, CC, and MCC were found to be 0.605, 2.306, 0.393, and 0.394 respectively. Economic and Political Weekly was the most prolific journal and R. H. Khan of AMU was the most productive author during the study period with 42 papers and with an h-index of 18.
Digital preservation is an evolving area of research for libraries, archives, and museums across ... more Digital preservation is an evolving area of research for libraries, archives, and museums across the globe over the last two decades. Due to the growing recognition of the need to address various issues dealt with digital preservation, this field of study has generated quite a range of scholarly communications on several aspects. The present paper aims to examine critically the extant literature on "digital preservation and libraries" for the period from 2001 to 2019 and to assess the evolving trajectory and trends. Out of a total of 1292 extracted records from the Scopus database, a total of 710 articles are considered for the study purpose after the exclusion of non-relevant articles. Employing bibliometric indicators the study primarily assessed the publication pattern, document types, the most prolific authors, most contributing institutions, and focus areas of study as well as the geographical distribution of publications. Along with this, the VOSviewer software is used for co-author network analysis. The findings of the current analysis reveal that the highest number of papers published in the source journal "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" while the U.S.A. is in the top spot among the countries and author Nelson, M. L. from the U.S.A. has published the maximum number of research papers. It also provides information on various forms of publication on digital preservation and the impactful papers. Though there are studies on the assessment of digital libraries and digital repositories, a bibliometric assessment of literature on digital preservation is a novel attempt. As a metric study, it reflects the relative position of a country, an institution, and a researcher.
The very purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of the doctoral research works... more The very purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic analysis of the doctoral research works produced by Indian Universities in the discipline of Sociology during the period from 2004 to 2017. The study is based on the secondary data, compiled from the authentic Indian data source on doctoral research known as "University News". It aims to find out the developmental trends of Sociology research, the productivity of states, universities, and supervisors as well as languages and gender-wise productivity of Sociology doctoral research. It also aims to find out the most frequently occurred key words and the research areas associated with these keywords through a qualitative analysis of the titles of the research works done in the discipline. The study revealed that in all, 1333 doctoral degrees were awarded from 104 universities, guided by 676 supervisors. Delhi, the National Capital Territory of India proved its research competence by emerging as a leading destination of Sociology research in India. Similarly, at the institution level, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) found to be the prominent institution that awarded the maximum number of doctoral degrees (200) among the universities. A K Pandey (University of Lucknow) and Anand Kumar (JNU) are the most prolific supervisors who have guided to a maximum of 19 scholars each during the period of study. Research works on 'Women' focused on aspects like, 'social presence', 'profession', 'empowerment', 'health', 'crime', 'education', and other related issues on different communities are found to be the Indian scholars' most favoured research areas in sociology.
DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 2021
The purpose of the work is to make a quantitative and qualitative assessment of published researc... more The purpose of the work is to make a quantitative and qualitative assessment of published research on fake news in light of the Library and Information Science (LIS) perspective and show the research trends. Essential metadata elements were collected from the SCOPUS bibliographic database pertaining to fake news with specific reference to the LIS domain from 2017 to 2020 for the research work and analysed as per the research objectives. While the bibliometric indicators and R package has been used to study the various quantitative dimensions of publication patterns of the research papers, qualitative content analysis has been used to determine the emerging areas of research on fake news within the discipline. The quantitative analysis reveals that a good number of research works (N=133) have been published in as many as 52 academic journals of LIS that received 628 citations. “Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology” is the most productive journal that ...
The present study is modeled with the purpose to explore the quantitative and qualitative assessm... more The present study is modeled with the purpose to explore the quantitative and qualitative assessment of global Management Information System (MIS) research by using various bibliometric indicators on International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) journal literature. It examines and presents an analysis of 180 research communications published during the period 1999-2009 in the area of MIS. The present study significantly examines the various bibliometric dimensions of the journal literature such as growth of literature, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, authors' productivity, geographical distribution, citation pattern, length of articles, institution-wise distribution of articles, journal matrix, discipline-wise distributions of articles, productive institutions and prolific authors etc.
Library Philosophy and Practice, 2018
Measuring the research quality of academics to assess the performance of departments, research in... more Measuring the research quality of academics to assess the performance of departments, research institutes, universities or even the researchers by themselves is a trend now across the globe. Quality is a journey which can only be judged through the scholarly communications produced, especially papers published in journals. However, assessing the quality of individual papers by peer review is not trouble-free and sometimes leads to disagreement too. Partly for these reasons, the quality of the journal that the paper is published in is widely taken into consideration for the quality of the paper itself. The present study explores the publication pattern of scholarly articles of the Journal “Information Processing and Management,” a leading international journal published by Elsevier and indexed under Science Direct Database. It examines and presents an analysis of 550 articles (under Top25 hottest article of Science Direct) cited within the period from 2008 to 2013.The scholarly artic...
The basic purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of Indian contribution towards... more The basic purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of Indian contribution towards open access journal movement, particularly the journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)-a service from Lund University. It seeks to explore the relative position of India among other countries and provides an analysis of the indexed journals from several parameters. A list of 318 Indian OA journals indexed in DOAJ has been served as the data source. The relevant metadata for each indexed journal such as title of the journal, journal URL, ISSN, country of publication, language, year since added in DOAJ, LCC subject category, APC charges of journals, publisher and publishers' keywords and Journal license and other licensing attributes were analyzed to get the outcome. The study suggests India's standing in the domain of open access scholarly publishing and establishes that India is one among the most productive countries those support universal access to knowledge. This study acts as a reference tool for the scholarly community in the disciplines of Medical Sciences, Basic Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences to have access to the published research works crossing the geographical barrier.
Library Philosophy and Practice, 2017
The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) is an online open access peerreviewed journ... more The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) is an online open access peerreviewed journal that publishes articles with regard to the development of both theory and practice in the field of Knowledge Management. The present paper examines the articles published in EJKM during the period from 2003-13 for identifying the publication output, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, most prolific contributors, geographical distribution of papers, referencing pattern, self citation pattern and several other characteristics. The results of this study reveal that that the year 2009 is the most productive year, research papers are given more importance than other categories of publications. Majority of papers are multi-authored. The degree of collaboration is found to be 0.70. The geographical distribution reveals that the contribution by United Kingdom is highest.
Performance Measurement and Metrics, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the classic characteristics of highly cited artic... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the classic characteristics of highly cited articles (HCAs) of top-ranked library and information science (LIS) journals and get acquainted with the high-quality works in specific areas of LIS for distinguishing what gets cited and who the prolific authors are. Design/methodology/approach The HCAs published across the top four LIS journals were downloaded, coded and a database was developed with basic metadata elements for analysis using bibliometric indicators. Lotka’s Inverse Square Law of Scientific Productivity was applied to assess the author’s productivity of HCA. The content analysis method was also used to find out the emerging areas of research that have sought high citations. Findings Inferences were drawn for the proposed five number of research questions pertaining to individual productivity, collaboration patterns country and institutional productivity, impactful areas of research. The Netherland found to be the potential ...
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2018
International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2017
The present study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a... more The present study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The prime objective of the study is to explore quantitatively the inclusion of Library & Information Science Journal from several perspectives. It is found that there are 158 LIS journals indexed in DOAJ published from 43 countries in 21 different languages. While English is the dominant language of publication 3 journals are published simultaneously in five languages. India occupies the fifth rank sharing a common position with its counterparts like Poland and United Kingdom with six Indian LIS journals indexed in DOAJ. The sustainability of LIS journals in open access domain is clearly reflected from the study.
Managing Knowledge and Scholarly Assets in Academic Libraries
The very purpose of the paper is to explore, assess and to determine the elements of knowledge ma... more The very purpose of the paper is to explore, assess and to determine the elements of knowledge management as an academic discipline. At the beginning, the paper explains the concepts of knowledge, knowledge management and the characteristics of an academic discipline. A structured framework with six criteria suggested by Kuhn (1996) outlining an academic discipline has been applied to evaluate and to put forward a comprehensive understanding Knowledge Management (KM) as an academic discipline. In order to gather relevant data as per the criteria, many sources have been relied upon. Findings reveal that KM meets and supports all the laid down criteria as it has its own body of knowledge, specialized journals, academic curricula, professional societies and can be considered as a progressive academic discipline and scholarly field of study with its own tradition and history.