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| Article Name : | | | THE MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 2007-2012: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY | | Author Name : | | | Dr.P.Padma , Ramasamy, K | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-517 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | Purpose: The study aims at presenting a bibliometric analysis of the contributions found in the ‘Malaysian Journal of Library and information science’ during the years 2007-2012. Various bibliometric measures like volume-wise distribution of articles, authorship-pattern, degree of collaboration, reference pattern, range of references, length of papers, the rank list of prolific authors, the ranked list of geographical affiliation of the authors, the subject categories etc are used under this study to fulfil the objectives.
Methodology: Necessary data was collected from the MJLIS website by downloading all the issues published from 2007-2012. The data collected was tabulated and analysed using percentage method with the help of MS Excel 2007 Version.
Findings: The study reveals that : Year 2011 has the most number of articles i.e. 28 (23.73 %) and the year 2007 has the least number of articles i.e. 14 (11.86 %). Volume 15 Number 1, Volume 16 Numbers 1 and 2 have contributed 10 articles, the maximum for a number. | | Keywords : | | - bibliometrics
- malaysian journal of library and information science authorship pattern
- degree of collaboration
- prolific authors
- top scoring subjects
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