RBU_JR_LIS_V23_2021-FULL_TEXT-E-Copy

RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
3. Map the Co-citation analysis of cited authors and
cited sources.
4. Analyze the Bibliographic coupling of countries,
Publications, and authors.
5. Recognize the Co-occurrence of the author's
keyword.
Methodology
This study employs bibliometric approaches for the
analysis of bibliographic data sets from the Annals of
Library and Information Studies journal during 2011- 2020
which were downloaded from the Scopus database. Data
collection was performed on May 15 th , 2021. The dataset
was compiled from ALIS publication documents indexed
by Scopus. Bibliographic data of a total of 312 documents
were retrieved for the analysis. The dataset of 312
documents was downloaded in .csv format and it includes
citation information, bibliographical information, abstract
and keywords, and references. All the data collected is
then analyzed using the scientometric tool VOSviewer. In
connection with the study objectives, the types of analysis
used were co-authorship with author’s analysis, co-citation
analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence with
the author keywords analysis While presenting different
categories of bibliometric analysis results, the researchers
followed a deductive way similar to the one followed by
Lee, Felps, and Baruch (2014) and Ersozlu and Karakus
(2019). The results have been presented in a way starting
from the more general findings and flowing to more
specific ones, namely, bibliographic coupling of the
countries, bibliographic coupling of the institutions,
bibliographic coupling of the journals, bibliographic
coupling of the publications, bibliographic coupling of the
authors, and co-occurrences of the author keywords. This
flow of the content enables readers to follow the
relationships starting from the more general information
and then to find out specific information that explains the
former ones respectively.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
1 Year-wise distribution of contributions
Table 1 and figure 1 depict the year-wise distribution of
the publication in Annals of Library and Information
Studies (ALIS) from 2011 to 2020. It was observed that
there are a total of 312 documents published in 10 volumes
during the study period out of which the highest 38
(12.18%) articles were published in the year 2015
followed by the year 2013 having 37 (11.86%)
publications and in the year 2011 having 36 (11.54%)
publications. The lowest publication has been observed in
the year 2019 with 20 (8.65%) publications.
Year Vol.no. Total Percentage
publication
2011 58 36 11.54
2012 59 27 8.65
2013 60 37 11.86
2014 61 35 11.22
2015 62 38 12.18
2016 63 32 10.26
2017 64 32 10.26
2018 65 28 8.97
2019 66 20 6.41
2020 67 27
8.65
Total 312 100
Table-1: Year-wise distribution of contributions
Figure-1: Year-wise distribution of contributions
2 Most Cited publications
Most cited publications are presented in Table 2 and
Figure 2 with overlay visualization. A publications'
minimum number of citations was considered 15 in this
analysis. Of the 312 documents, 9 met the threshold. For
all the publications, the number of citations, Author, and
Sl. Rank Total Title
Author
No Citations
1 1 21 Comparative analysis of scientific output of BRIC (Kumar, 2011)
countries.
2 2 19 A study of ICT skills among library professionals in (Seena & Sudhier, 2014)
Kerala university library system.
3 3 18 Women’s health information and information sources: (Nwagwu & Ajama, 2011)
A study of a rural oil palm business community in
south-western Nigeria.
4 4 16 Internet of things and libraries. (Pujar & Satyanarayan, 2015)
5 4 16 Productivity pattern of universities in Kerala: A (Awasthy & Gopikuttan, 2013)
scientometric analysis.
6 4 16 Factors affecting utilization of electronic health (Alison & Kiyingi, 2012)
information resources in universities in Uganda.
7 4 16 The research output of CSIR- central electrochemical
research institute: A study
(Jeyshankar & Ramesh, 2011)
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