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Research Analysis of International Research: Journal of
Library and Information Science a Bibliometric Study
N. Krishnaswamy* and D. Lidwin Jesintha**
*Chief Librarian, Central Library, Karpagam University, Coimbatore-641 021.
** Librarian, MBA Library, Karpagam University, Coimbatore-641 021.
E-mail:lidwinjesintha@gmail.com; E-mail:krish.kulibrarian@gmail.com
Abstract
This study highlights the research evaluation of
bibliometric study of Indian Journal of cancer for the
time frame of 2011-2013. The data was taken from
the archives of the journal through online. This study
highlights the evaluation of research carried out by
the oncologist doctors. The analysis covers on
distribution of articles patterns, length of articles,
authorship patterns, and citation distribution. The
study has helped in finding out the publication
published during the past ten years. The findings
shows that 103 articles were published and joint
author contribution was 69 (%) and rest was the
single author 56(8.96%).The mathematical formula
was used to find the degree of collaboration of
authorship in the Indian journal of cancer. The study
helps in finding out the strength and the weakness of
the publication and necessary steps recommended
for further development.
Keywords: Bibliometric, research output, authorship
pattern, citation analysis.
Introduction
Bibliometric analysis is a tool of science, quantitative
analysis, the journal articles published in a particular
journal. This study focuses on International Research:
Journal of Library and Information Science. This
journal was established in the year 2011. This is an
international peer-reviewed online journal in the field
of Library and Information Science publishing
original research papers, survey reports, and reviews
& opinions pertaining to the subject. It is a freely
accessible scholarly journal committed to disseminate
the intellectual efforts of global academic community
in the discipline of LIS. The IR publishes articles
which contribute new results in the field of LIS. The
main goal of this journal is to bring together
academicians, researchers, information scientists to
focus on understanding the modern development of
LIS and establishing new collaboration in this
area.This journal is going to be helpful for students,
researchers, teachers as well as practitioners of
librarianship. Akhtar Hussain and Dillip K Swain
(2011) The study intends to evaluate the top papers of
Computer Science as reflected in Science Direct.
Moreover, it aims to find out authorship pattern,
ranking of authors, ranking of country productivity,
ranking of journals, and highly cited papers of
Computer Science. The citations data have been
collected from the quarterly list of hottest 25 research
articles in the subject field of Computer Science from
Science Direct database. In the present study, 20
issues of the alert service beginning from
January/March 2005 to October/December 2010
containing a total number of 495 articlesin Computer
Science have been taken up for analysis. The study
reveals that out of 495 top papers; three-authored
articles are little ahead than two authored articles
followed by four-authored articles and the country
productivity of USA is at the top followed by UK,
Taiwan, Chaina, and Canada. Moreover, it finds that
European Journal of Operational Research occupies
the top position followed by Computers in Human
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Behavior, and Pattern Recognition. This paper
highlights in analysing the research output
performance of the agricultural scientists on
agricultural science subject. The author, Thanuskodi
(2012), highlights about the merits and weakness of
the journal. The methodology that is applied in the
present study is bibliometric analysis, the
bibliographical detail were computed in the
computerised database and is created for further
analysis. The author, Thanuskodi (2012) has used the
formula given by K. Subramanian for determining
the degree of collaboration in the quantitative terms.
the Indian journal of agricultural research is highly
preferred journal for communication by the
agricultural scientists. Although several studies have
used cancer research performance in Indian European
union company studies of European Union’s with
that of other countries of similar population are not
available. In this paper author Andrea (2011),
examines about the performance of cancer research
from the year 2000 to 2008 between EU 27 and 11
other countries with over 100 million inhabitants.
The author has examined about 143 journals relating
to oncology access through Scopus. Publications
were attributed to countries using published coding
procedures. The findings highlight the study in terms
of number of cancer publications which depicts USA
in the leading position. The next large countries of
the developing world had a poor record of cancer
publication as compared to USA. The author has used
Medline as a reference source and Scopus to access
its claims to archive all its publications indexed in
Medline after 1995. The impact factor of 2008 was
used. The author concludes that USA had over taken
European unions with respect to member of cancer
publications and journal impact.The evaluation of
research involves making companies between the
output from different countries, regions, universities,
departments etc. The author Grant Lewison (2011), in
his paper titled definition of cancer research, journals,
titles, abstracts or keywords. This paper analyses
about the output of cancer research for which the
author used three filters for identifying the research
output namely journal papers, journal titles and
abstracts. The author had used latest version of
cancer research filler labelled ONCOL. For deriving
the results has used the calculations of precision and
recall values.Using bibliometric analysis to update
cancer research policy and spending paper authored
by Richard Sullivan, Seth Eckhous (2014) for
European cancer research managers forum speaks
about the causes, preventions, diagnostics and
treatment of cancer. The author Richard Sullivan, in
his chapter addresses about the impact of cancer on
low and middle union countries. It is also seen that
the previous medical reports of global forum for
health research has drawn attention to 10/90 gap that
indicates the imbalance between the world’s
biomedical research portfolio and global burden of
diseases. The author inferences diseases of rich
received greater findings for research than diseases of
the poor. For their effective study the author
suggested the use bibliometric analysis to track the
changes and to record the progress of biomedical
research in the respective countries.There were
various studies using bibliometric analysis in
different fields one such is referred to annals of
library and information studies the author Ramesh
Pandita (2013), presents an analysis which covers the
area like article distribution pattern, authorship
pattern, and geographical distribution of authors.
Further it highlights that 310 articles were published
during the period 2002-2012. The data was tabulated
as per articles contributed, highlighted in their
standing order. The collected data was analysed using
excel format for arriving at percentage and average.
Various findings were studies based on the tables
designed for collection of data that there is a growing
trend among the researchers to carry out research
mainly on joint authorship. This in turn unveils that
the fact that how far the journal will have
international repute. In the present time there has
been a significant growth in research literature on
oncology in India. Swapan Kumar Patra, Partha
Bhattacharya6
, in their paper bibliometric study on
cancer research in India studies about the growth
trend of cancer literature in India. The author 6, has
downloaded from national centre for biotechnology
information (NCBI) and pubmed (Published medical
literature) is an online version of medline is a free
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internet access. The author has used Endnotes for
downloading data. The analysed data was represented
namely growth of literature, country wise distribution
of literature, document type and authorship pattern.
The author 6, concludes that bibliometric analysis of
Indian cancer research as published in NCBI, Pub
med. The study shows that there are around 500
literature published per year with the above study and
literature has helped in analysing the data.With the
above studied literature, the present paper has been
carried out to find the oncology study in Indian
journal of cancer. Narayan C Ghosh (2014).The
present research is an attempt to describe the quantity
and quality of research publications of CSIR-IICB,
Kolkata during ten years period from 2001-2010. The
population under study was of 1228 documents on
media literacy published through 2011. The results
were analyzed based on date of publication, type of
document, authorship pattern, source of publications,
subject areas, affiliations, country origin of foreign
collaborators. Citation indicators formed the second
phase of investigation in the present study. There was
increasing trend from 2001 to 2005 and reported
33.90% increase but there was considerable amount
of fluctuation during 2006 to 2010. In the year 2006
53.01% increase was reported over 2001. The
analysis of data based on document type indicated
that, out of the 1228 publications, 1041 were articles
(84.77%), 59 were reviews (4.80%), and 43 were
conference papers (3.50%). It was disclosed from the
analysis that major focus area of research as highest
research papers were on Leishmania with 223
(29.89%) publications, followed by Synthesis of New
Chemical Entities with 109 (14.61%) and Cancer
Research with 101 (8.22%). The data analyzed to
identify foreign collaboration and found thelargest
number of papers were published in Journal of
Neurochemistry 27 (2.20%) followed by Tetrahedron
Letters with 26 (2.12%) and Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistrywith 20 (1.63 %). The most cited
articles from 2001 up to 2010 included 46 researches
on the h-index. University of Calcutta was the top
collaborator from the country followed by Jadavpur
University and Chittaranjan National Cancer
Institute.
Objective of the Study:
To study the number of author contribution of
the journal during the study period.
To categories issue wise distribution of
articles.
To classify type of authors contribution.
To study most prolific authors contribution.
To highlight the year wise distribution of
citations.
Methodology
Methods used in the research study is the
bibliometric analysis, that has helped in research
study of bibliographic content, features of the journal
articles and citation analysis of each articles
published in journal of Library and Information
Science. The study year is observed from 2011-2013.
This contains the research output for the period of 3
years and a collection of 103 articles. The collected
data is computed in the excel sheet and the
percentage was drawn for the same.
Results and Discussion
Analysis and Discussion: The various data analysed
were authorship pattern, contribution of articles
periodically, length of paper contributed and year
wise distribution of citations. The time frame of the
study was from 2011 to 2013 journal articles. The
analysed data was represented in the form of tables
with percentage. The analysis also represented the
degree of collaboration in the International Research:
Journal of Library and Information Science.
The analysis is represented in form of tables and
figures:
