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CITATION ANALYSIS OF JOURNAL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
RESEARCH DURING 2005 - 2014
Anubhav shah
Research Scholar
Department of Library and
Information Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao
Ambedkar University,
Lucknow
Dr. Sharad Kumar
Sonker
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and
Information Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao
Ambedkar University,
Lucknow
Kritika Sinha
MLIS Student
Department of Library and
Information Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao
Ambedkar University,
Lucknow
ABSTRACT
Author concern the citation analysis study of the journal entitle “Library and Information Science
Research” from the period 2005 to 2014. Citation analysis is a method of bibliometric which examine the frequency
of the cited articles, authorship pattern of the cited articles, citations pattern, etc in publication. bibliometric is a
branch of Information science which contributed quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and
micro communication along with their authorships by mathematical and statistical calculation. Citations analysis is
a process to establish the relationship between one works to other research works by mathematical and statistical
calculations. The study covers the number of cited articles, authorship pattern of cited articles, document wise
distribution of cited articles, consultation frequency of electronic citations and print citations, number of references
per articles, year wise distribution of cited articles. The study concluded merits/ demerits of the journal which will
be helpful for its further evaluation.
Keywords: Citation analysis, Library and Information Science research, Authorship Pattern, Geographical area
wise distribution, Electronic citations and Print citations.
1. INTRODUCTION
Bibliometrcis
the
term
was
originated by Alan Pritchard in the year
1969 and says that bibliometric is an
application of mathematic and statistical
methods to books, journals and other media
The literally means of bibliometrics
is “book measurement” but the term covers
all kinds of document s likes journal articles,
books, etc. Bibliometrics study does not
cover the physical properties of the
documents but its covers the mathematical
and
statistical
patterns
of
media
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of scholarly communication9. Earlier the
term bibilometrics proposed by Pritchard the
term statistical bibliography was in use for
science and technology that was coined by
Hulem in the year 1923.
communication such as authorship pattern,
sources, subjects, geographical genesis,
citations etc. The term bibliometrics is a
combination of two root words “BIBLIO”
and METIRCS”. The word biblio derived
from the combination of Latin and Greek
word “BIBLON” which directly concern
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with books and paper. And the word Metrics
is derived either from Latin or Greek word
“Metrics” or Metrikes” which means
measurement in terms of science of meter.
So many authors have defined the meaning
“Library & Information Science
Research‟ journal is one of the open access
refereed journal published through Elsevier
Library
and
Information
Science
programme. The official website of the
journal library and information research is
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/libraryand-information-science-research/.
The
journal covers the research process in library
and
information
science,
research
concluded, their applicability, significance
and sensible application in library and
information science‟1 Citations analysis is a
way of scholarly communication, when one
author cites another author, a relationship
between the author‟s works is established.
Citation analysis is a process to establish
links with scholarly works. Many different
links of scholarly works can be established
like, link between authors, between research
Bibliometrcis
the
term
was
originated by Alan Pritchard in the year
1969 and says that bibliometric is an
application of mathematic and statistical
methods to books, journals and other media
The literally means of bibliometrics
is “book measurement” but the term covers
all kinds of document s likes journal articles,
books, etc. Bibliometrics study does not
cover the physical properties of the
documents but its covers the mathematical
and
statistical
patterns
of
media
communication such as authorship pattern,
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of bibliometrics over the years some of the
definitions are given below. “The study and
measurement of the publication patterns of
all forms written communications and their
authors.”10 POTTER.
works,
between
journals,
between
document, between fields, between countries
etc.
„Citation analysis is a quantitative
method which provides the brief information
about the cited materials which can be any
form like journals, thesis, books, etc.
citations analysis gives the enough
information about the publication like
frequency of the journal, authorship
patterns, type of the document used, place of
the publications, language of the
publications, frequency of the citations (Ecitations, p-citations), and also suggest the
new trend of the publications etc‟8. Citations
analysis helps to provide verity of
information about the publication by which
librarian can be reorganized their library
collection and also judge the effectiveness of
the publications in the society.
of scholarly communication9. Earlier the
term bibilometrics proposed by Pritchard the
term statistical bibliography was in use for
science and technology that was coined by
Hulem in the year 1923.
sources, subjects, geographical genesis,
citations etc. The term bibliometrics is a
combination of two root words “BIBLIO”
and METIRCS”. The word biblio derived
from the combination of Latin and Greek
word “BIBLON” which directly concern
with books and paper. And the word Metrics
is derived either from Latin or Greek word
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“Metrics” or Metrikes” which means
measurement in terms of science of meter.
So many authors have defined the meaning
of bibliometrics over the years some of the
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definitions are given below. “The study and
measurement of the publication patterns of
all forms written communications and their
authors.”10 POTTER..
2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Lot of studies has been carried out across the countries on citation analysis in library and
information science research. Some of the national and international studies are adopted for this
study are given below
Rattan, Kaur. Gurjeet (2015)2 has
Hu. Ping-Chang & others (2010)4
conducted their citation analysis study on
contributed their paper on “A journal coPakistan journal of library and information
citation analysis of library and information
science during the period 2006 to 2012. In
science in China” and concluded the
his study they have received 848 citations
relationship
and structure of
LIS
from 40 articles and calculated the growth of
publications in China. Author explore that
the citations, average citations of the
24 core of LIS journals have selected and
articles, authorship pattern of the cited
relevant data of co citations where
articles, and etc. ranked list of the cited
manipulated or calculated by the Chinese
journal have been prepared by the author
journal full text database by the China
and also tested the Bradford law of
national knowledge infrastructure during the
scattering to this journal. Author highlighted
period of study 1999 to 2009. Author find
that Bradford set of distribution data is
the strong relationship among LIS journals
11:38:123:.
in China by calculating, mean co-citation
3
Pradhan, Kishore. Dibya (2015)
frequency and correlation coefficient.
has contributed citations analysis of
Simisaye & Osinaike (2010)5 have
international journal the purpose of the study
studied citation analysis of journal of library
was to determine the trend of library and
and information science during the period
information science scholarly publication in
2004 to 2009. Researcher carried out that 72
international LIS journals by Indian
articles were published throughout the study
contributors and also find out the authorship
period, most of the article were publish in
pattern, nature of collaborative research ,
year 2007 and 2008 with 14 number of
research
distributions,
journal
wise
article, total 998 number of references was
distributions of articles, state wise
cited by the journal. The average citations
distributions of LIS contributions
etc.
(13.7) of per paper was calculated by the
researcher concluded that 84.13% literature
author, the top most cited materials where
was contributed in the form of articles, Delhi
founded by the researcher was journals with
was the most highest contributed state with
37.14%, researcher also highlight the top 10
85 contribution in the journal.
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rank of the cited journal during the period of
study.
Nosrat. Riahinia (2009)6 carried out their
study on “A 2003 to 2007 Citation Analysis
of Library Herald” and find out that the
journal has published 120 original paper
during the period of study. 88% of the
original articles where published in India.
Only 16 international contribution where
published in course of five year study.
Chikate & Patil (2008)7 analyzed
the citation analysis of the theses in library
and information science subject submitted
3. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The basic purpose of the study is to
analyze year wise distribution of cited
articles, estimate the quantitative growth of
articles by volume, authorship pattern of the
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by university of Pune. Author concluded
that 42.2% citations out of 6,257 were
examine from journals, Collage and research
Libraries was one of the most cited journal
by LIS researchers during the period of
study which was cited 141 times, Bradford‟s
law of scattering has confirmed by the
author with geometric series in the form of
11:55:300. Researcher also highlighted the
publisher wise distribution of the citations,
subject wise distribution, language wise
distribution and authorship pattern etc.
publication, discuss the frequency of
electronic citations and print citations, and
document wise distributions of cited articles
during the respective period of the study.
4. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following objectives have been undertaken for the compilation of the study these are as
follow.
i. To identify the year-wise distribution
v. To know the consultation frequency
of cited journals.
of electronic citations and print
ii. To estimate the quantitative growth
citations
of articles by volume
vi. To identify geographical distribution
iii. To study the authorship pattern of
of articles.
the cited articles.
iv. To explore the document wise
distributions of cited articles.
5. LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
The study “Citation analysis of
Research is one of the open access refereed
Library and Information Science Research
journal published through Elsevier Library
Journal” covers 10 year publication of the
and Information Science programme.
journal which includes 10 volumes and 44
Researcher concluded there citation analysis
issues consisting 293 articles, 13751 cited
with 293 publication from 2005 to 2014
articles. „Library & Information Science
only.
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6. METHODOLOGY
Study examined the article published
in Library and Information Science
Research Journal over the period of 2005 to
2014. All article and their references are
carefully and systemically examined to
obtain appropriate data. Total 40 issues
(volume 27 to 36) of the library and
information science research journal have
been consulted during the year 2005 to
2014.The details with regard to each
published article such as title of the articles,
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number of authors, their institutional
affiliations and addresses, no. of references
with list, page number of tables and figures,
etc., were recorded and analyzed for making
observations. Tables are made by tally mark
system counting one by one reference data
and other information. All the data has been
allocated and presented in difference tables.
The Microsoft excel package has been used
for the frequency counts and data
percentages.
7. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Table 1-Year Wise Distribution of citations:
TOTAL
TOTAL CITED
YEAR
VOLUME ISSUES ARTICLES
ARTICLES
2005
27
4
26
985
2006
28
4
27
1078
2007
29
4
25
1141
2008
30
4
29
1264
2009
31
4
27
1294
2010
32
4
28
1293
2011
33
4
35
1605
2012
34
4
36
1884
2013
35
4
36
1905
2014
36
4
24
1302
TOTAL
10
40
293
13751
The above table 9 showed that
maximum number of citations 1905
[13.85%] produced in 2013 followed by
1884 [13.70%] citations in 2012, 1605
15
%
7.16
7.83
8.29
9.19
9.41
9.40
11.67
13.70
13.85
9.46
100
[11.67%] citations in 2011 and lowest in the
year 2005 with 985 [7.16%].the number of
total cited article is 13751.
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Fig-1 Year Wise Distribution of citations
Year wise Distributions of the Citations
2000
1000
1605
985 1078 1141 1264 1294 1293
1884 1905
1302
0
2005 2006
2007 2008
2009 2010
2011 2012
2013
No of Cited Articles
2014
The above chart-1 shows the year wise distribution of the citations.
7.1-Quantitative growth of articles by volumes
The below chart no -2 shows that
maximum numbers of articles published in
volume 34 and 35 which include 36
numbers of articles each volume followed
by volume number 33, which include 35
numbers of articles. The lowest number of
articles published in volume numbers 29 in
the year 2007 which consisting only 25
numbers of articles.
Fig-2 Quantitative growth of articles by volumes
Growth of Articles by Volume
NO. OF ARTICLES
26
27
25
29
27
28
35
36
36
24
27
16
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
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Table-2 Authorship pattern of the Cited Articles
AUTHORSHIP PATTERN
SINGLE
DOUBLE
TRIPLE
MULTIPLE
CORPORATE
TOTAL
On
analyzing
extent
%
47.13
26.42
10.93
7.37
8.12
100
of
[8.12%] involved corporate authors , 1504
collaborations, it was found that 6482
citations [10.93%] involved triple authors
citations [ 47.13%] involved single authors
and1014 citations [7.37%] involved four and
followed by 3634 citations
more authors.
involved double
the
TOTAL NO. OF CITATION
6482
3634
1504
1014
1117
13751
[26.42%]
authors, 1117 citations
Fig-3 Authorship pattern of the Cited Articles
TOTAL NO. OF CITATION
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
6482
3634
1504
1014
1117
TOTAL NO. OF CITATION
The graph reveals the authorship pattern of the cited articles. The contributions from the single
authors are highest and multiple is lowest.
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Fig-4 Document wise distributions of cited articles
3% Documment wise distributions of cited articles
1%
4%
6%
JOURNALS
BOOKS
5%
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND
SEMINARS
PROJECTS AND REPORTS
21%
WEB PAGES
60%
DISSERTATION AND THESIS
The above chart-4 showed that
majority of
the
preferred
citations, project and reports with 617
journals as the source of information which
[4.48%] citations, dissertation and thesis
occupied the top position with the highest
with 171 [1.24%] citations. It is found that
number of citations 8229 [59.84%] of the
the researchers preferred journal articles
total 13751 citations followed by books with
more frequently for their research work,
2820 [20.50%] citations, web pages with
than any other types of communication
766
channels.
[5.57%]
contributors
proceedings and seminars with 720 [5.23%]
citations,
conference
Table-3 Document wise distributions of cited articles
FORMS OF DOCUMENT
TOTAL NO. OF CITATION
%
JOURNALS
BOOKS
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & SEMINARS
PROJECTS & REPORTS
WEB PAGES
DISSERTATION &THESIS
OTHERS
TOTAL
8229
2820
720
617
766
171
428
13751
59.84
20.50
5.23
4.48
5.57
1.24
3.11
100
The above table- 2 reveals the form wise distribution of the documents. Journals cover
the highest with total of 60% and dissertation and thesis with only 1%.
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Table- 4 Consultation frequency of electronic citations and print citations
VOLUME
NO.OF
CONTRIBUTION
PRINT
SOURCES
ELECTRONIC
SOURCES
TOTAL CITED
ARTICLES
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
10
26
27
25
29
27
28
35
36
36
24
293
847
951
1023
1109
1086
1121
1340
1536
1418
1109
11540
138
127
118
155
208
172
265
348
487
193
2211
985
1078
1141
1264
1294
1293
1605
1884
1905
1302
13751
The table -12 shows that there are total 13751 cited articles comprises both documentary
and non-documentary references. It shows documentary sources are more cited with total of
11540 contributions and non-documentary less with 2211 contributions.
Fig-5 Consultation frequency of electronic citations and print citations
1800
1536
1600
1200
1000
1418
1340
1400
847
951
1109
1023
1121
1086
1109
800
600
487
400
200
138
127
118
155
208
172
265
348
193
0
27
28
29
30
PRINT SOURCES
31
32
33
34
35
36
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
The above chart-2 showed that printed sources are more cited with 11540 then e-sources
which include total number of cited articles 2211. The total numbers of cited articles are 13751.
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Fig-6 Geographical distribution of articles
Country wise distributions of articles
146
NO. OF CONTRIBUTIONS
2414
1110 7 7
7 5 5 4
3 2 2 2
2 2 2 1
1 1 1 1
1 1
1
1
1
1
NO. OF CONTRIBUTIONS
The above chart-6 reveals the contributions of articles according to countries.USA have
the highest contribution with 146, followed by Canada with 24 contributions and Australia with
14 and so on.
8. CONCLUSIONS
The Citation analysis
are
[26.42%] involved double authors, 1117
frequently used to assess the research
citations [8.12%] involved corporate authors
publication and to generate information that
, 1504 citations [10.93%]
could be used by policy makers and experts.
authors and1014 citations [7.37%] involved
In this citation analysis study researcher
four and more authors. The contributions
concluded that the maximum number of
from the USA have the highest contribution
citations 1905 [13.85%] produced in 2013
with 146 [54.88%] from given period of
followed by 1884 [13.70%] citations in
study. Majority of the contributors preferred
2012, 1605 [11.67%] citations in 2011 and
journals as the source of information which
lowest in the year 2005 with 985 [7.16%].
occupied the top position with the highest
Single author‟s citations are more than those
number of citations 8229 [59.84%] of the
of double and triple authors. Resulted that
total 13751 citations. Documentary sources
6482 citations [ 47.13%] involved single
are more cited with total of 11540
authors
20
followed
by
studies
3634
involved triple
citations
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contributions and non-documentary less
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with 2211 contributions.
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