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Article Name :
A SCIENTOMETRIC PROFILE ON “INTERNET USE” OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE SUBJECT IN (LISTA)
Author Name :
Fawaz Abdullah Alhamdi , Vaishali Khaparde and Wankhede Raju Shesharao
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-377
Article URL :
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Abstract :
The present study deals a Scientometric analysis of 56 papers published in the Library and Information science & Technical Abstract (LISTA) on internet use in the subject of library &Information science during the period 2004 - 2013. Data is collected and analysed by using the SPSS software. The study focused on various aspects: such as document types, growth Rate (GR) and doubling time (DT) of publications and citations, year-wise, authorship pattern, institutions involved, most prolific authors of the journal. The study revealed that most of the papers (71.4%) of papers were contributed by multiple authors. USA is the top producing country with 8 (14.3%) publications of the total output. All the articles were published in English language. The mean doubling time for the first five years (i.e. 2004 to 2008) is only (1.05) which is increased to (6.07) during the last five years (2009 to 2013). Maximum 35 (62.5%) out of 56 of the authors are not mentioned their email address in the paper.
Keywords :
  • scientometrics
  • bibliometrics
  • internet use
  • lista