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Article Name :
A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF WORLD RESEARCH OUTPUT ON INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE FIELD OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE DURING 1999-2013
Author Name :
Adithya Kumari. H , Madhusudhan, C M and Hydar Ali
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-507
Article URL :
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Abstract :
This study attempts to identify the bibliometric characteristics of the articles published in the various journals from WEB of Knowledge during the study period 1999-2013. Bibliometric analysis use data on numbers and authors of scientific publications and on articles and the citations therein (and in patents) to measure the “output” of individuals/research teams, institutions, and countries, to identify national and international networks, and to map the development of new (multi-disciplinary) fields of science and technology. The results show that the most prolific author is ‘Julien Heidi’ with 21(1.64%) articles and ‘Pinto Maria’ with 19 (1.49%). ‘The continent America ranked first by contributing 690 (52.43%) articles. followed by The Europe continent occupies the second position with 338 (25.68%). Among the key words Appeared in the publications shows that high frequency keywords were “information literacy” is topped with 221(24.07%) publications with followed by next “Information” has scored with 38 (4.13%) publications.
Keywords :
  • bibliometric
  • information literacy
  • quantitative analysis
  • citation studies