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International Information and Library Review: A Ten Year Bibliometric Study

Dillip K. Swain1
21 Oct 2014-International Information & Library Review (Routledge)-Vol. 46, pp 113-124
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the publication patterns of International Information and Library Review from 2004 to 2013 and to predict the impact and influence of this established journal in the field of library and information science over the last decade.
Abstract: The study intends to examine the publication patterns of International Information and Library Review from 2004 to 2013 and to predict the impact and influence of this established journal in the field of library and information science over the last decade. The study finds that International Information and Library Review has published the majority of papers in single authorship mode followed by in two-authorship mode while, contributions in three authorship and more than three-authorship mode are found less. The degree of collaboration in International Information and Library Review publications is found to be 0.45, indicating less intensity of collaborative trend of research. The study reveals that the University of Pittsburgh of the United States is the top performer with 12 authors followed by University of Wisconsin Milwaukee of the United States (10 authors), Universiteit van Pretoria of South Africa and University of the Punjab Lahore of Pakistan (7 authors each). In regard to geographical distribu...
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TL;DR: A systematic analysis was performed of 378 articles published in the 59 volumes of the EJISDC to create a bibliometric profile of the journal by investigating variables such as the article productivity, Web citations and non‐Web citations, authorship patterns, background of the authors, institutional collaboration, degree of collaboration, as well as most productive authors and institutions together with their countries and regional affiliations.
Abstract: A systematic analysis was performed of 378 articles published in the 59 volumes of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries ( EJISDC ) in the period 2000 to 2013. The aim of the study was to create a bibliometric profile of the journal by investigating variables such as the article productivity, Web citations and non-Web citations, authorship patterns, background of the authors, institutional collaboration, degree of collaboration, as well as most productive authors and institutions together with their countries and regional affiliations. This study used the bibliographic database Inspec as a data collection source. Results of the study reveal that the average number of articles per year was 27 and the average length of an article 16.24 pages. The reference list analysis showed that most authors cite print resources, with 81.89% non-Web references compared to 18.11% Web references. A total of 697 authors contributed to this journal, with an average of 2.16 authors per article. An overwhelming 86.51% of the authors are from a university background. The journal displays a collaborative authorship pattern with 250 (66.14%) articles that were co-authored, compared to 128 (33.86%) that were single authored.

20 citations


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  • ...…of Science (Gazni and Didegah, 2011; Han et al., 2013; Ibáñez et al., 2013; Liu et al., , 2012; Mustafee et al., 2010; Shari et al., 2012; Sin, 2011) and Scopus (Burke, 2012; Cheng et al., 2013; Swain, 2014a, 2014b) are the most widespread bibliometric tools used in bibliometric research studies....

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  • ...…Dwivedi and Weerakkody, 2010; Dwivedi, 2009; Hashim, 2012; Minas et al., 2014; Mustafee et al., 2010; Rao et al., 2014; Sanni and Zainab, 2010; Swain, 2014a, 2014b; Swain, 2013; Zainab et al., 2009) shows that it is a useful research approach to map the intellectual activity, growth and…...

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TL;DR: The results of the study show that for this journal, single‐authored articles are cited more often than multi-authored articles in Google Scholar.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the country productivity, collaboration behaviour and citation impact of ICT4D researchers by examining all 378 articles published in the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) over a 14-year period. Data were collected from the Inspec database. The most active countries and regions were identified by analysing the author affiliation details. The contributions of developing countries were compared to developed countries. The trend in the EJISDC is towards collaborative research involving 250 (66.14%) articles with multiple authors and 128 (33.86%) articles with single authors. Articles by authors from the same institution accounted for 32.01% of jointly authored articles. National or domestic collaboration accounted for 173 (45.77%) articles and international collaboration accounted for 77 (20.37%) articles. Of the 69 countries represented in the EJISDC, 51 countries collaborated globally. Regional distribution of authors showed that Africa had the strongest representation, followed by Asia and North America. Between 17.83% and 20.87% of developing countries contributed articles to the EJISDC. The results of the study show that for this journal, single-authored articles are cited more often than multi-authored articles in Google Scholar.

10 citations


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  • ...…2013; Dwivedi et al., 2008; Dwivedi et al., 2008; Dwivedi & Mustafee, 2010; Dwivedi & Weerakkody, 2010; Dwivedi, 2009; Minas et al., 2014; Rao et al., 2014; Sanni & Zainab, 2010; Swain et al., 2013; Swain & Panda, 2012; Swain, 2013; 2014a; 2014b; Tella & Aisha Olabooye, 2014; Zainab et al., 2009)....

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TL;DR: The purpose of the study is to analyse the citations of the full research articles published in Nature journal from 2006 to 2015 to check if any kind of biasness is present in Nature publications.
Abstract: Nature is a weekly journal of multidisciplinary sciences with a huge range of followers in the scientific community. The purpose of the study is to analyse the citations of the full research articles published in Nature journal from 2006 to 2015. During this period Nature has published 8335 research articles. In the study the weightage of the research articles published in Nature were measured through immediacy index comparison of the research articles to the overall journal. The authorship pattern of the articles were measured and a cited references study was also conducted for measuring the self citations generated by Nature each year,the references per articles present and identifying core cited journals by Nature and their respective subject areas, which libraries in turn may use for collection development policies. Ranking of contributing countries and contributing organizations were also made by % share of article contribution. To check if any kind of biasness is present in Nature publications, a comparative evaluation of top contributing countries has also been made based on Nature Index. Web of Science core collection was used as the data source and Bibexcel bibliometric tool was used for data analysis purpose.

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TL;DR: A bibliometric analysis of some selected open access Library and Information Science (LIS) journals indexed in Scopus database during the period 2001 to 2015 shows that, the covered LIS open access journals are dominant with single authorship pattern.
Abstract: The present study is a bibliometric analysis of some selected open access Library and Information Science (LIS) journals indexed in Scopus database during the period 2001 to 2015. The study has covered 10 LIS open access journals with 5208 publications to establish an idea about the pattern of authorship, research collaboration, collaboration index, degree of collaboration, collaboration coefficient, author’s productivity, ranking of prolific authors etc. of said journals. Lotkas’s inverse square law has been applied to know the scientific productivity of authors. Results show that, the covered LIS open access journals are dominant with single authorship pattern. The value of Collaborative Index (0.73), Degree of Collaboration (0.72), and Collaboration Coefficient (0.29) do not show the trend of collaboration. Lotka’s law of author’s productivity is fitting to the present data set. The country wise distribution of authorship based on the country of origin of the corresponding author shows that 83 countries across the Globe are active in publication of their research in LIS open access journals. United States of America (USA) is the leader country producing of 2822(54.19%) authors alone.

4 citations


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  • ...Swain (2014) shows the authorship patterns of International Information and Library Review from 2004 to 2013 and highlights that majority of papers are published in single authorship mode followed by twoauthorship mode....

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TL;DR: In this article , a bibliometric portrait of the International Journal of Innovation Science (IJIS) and its publication patterns from 2011 to 2020 by unfolding the key aspects of its publication trends for the audience of the journal and scholars of bibliometrical studies as well.
Abstract: Purpose This study aims to sketch a bibliometric portrait of the International Journal of Innovation Science (IJIS) and attempts to evaluate its publication patterns from 2011 to 2020 by unfolding the key aspects of its publication trends for the audience of the journal and scholars of bibliometric studies as well. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes papers published in the IJIS from 2011 to 2020 by using the required bibliometric measures to analyze the key aspects of the publishing trends of IJIS. Findings This study finds that a total of 487 authors published 271 articles in IJIS during 2011–2020. The USA leads the table with 89 papers followed by India (29 papers) and China (26 papers). The degree of collaboration in IJIS ranged from 0.36 to 0.94. Moreover, this study finds that the keyword “design/methodology/approach” is the central theme of research in IJIS around which all other keywords revolve. Research limitations/implications This study focuses on the publication patterns of the IJIS over a period of ten years. Patterns of research output in 271 publications are comprehended and analyzed. For making a ten-year bibliometric study, the papers published before 2011 were excluded from the purview of research. Practical implications Readers of the IJIS, teachers and research scholars interested in bibliometric studies can benefit from insights into the scholarly papers published in IJIS from 2011 to 2020. Originality/value This study would provide the readers of IJIS to ascertain significant contributions, top cited papers, the most prolific authors, geographical distribution of papers, keyword co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling.

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K. Subramanyam1
TL;DR: Several types of collaboration have been identified, and earlier research on collaboration has been reviewed, andibliometric methods offer a convenient and non-reactive tool for studying collaboration in research.
Abstract: Scientific research is becoming an increasingly collaborative endeavour. The nature and magnitude of collaboration vary from one discipline to another, and depend upon such factors as the nature of...

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TL;DR: Although further validation is warranted, the novel SJR indicator poses as a serious alternative to the well‐established journal IF, mainly due to its openaccess nature, larger source database, and assessment of the quality of citations.
Abstract: The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the “quality” of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and their source databases. The SJR indicator is an open-access resource, while the journal IF requires paid subscription. The SJR indicator (based on Scopus data) lists considerably more journal titles published in a wider variety of countries and languages, than the journal IF (based on Web of Science data). Both indices divide citations to a journal by articles of the journal, during a specific time period. However, contrary to the journal IF, the SJR indicator attributes different weight to citations depending on the “prestige” of the citing journal without the influence of journal self-citations; prestige is estimated...

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"International Information and Libra..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...(mainly original articles and reviews; Falagas et al., 2008, p. 2623) The recorded SJR values of IILR retrieved from Scopus are depicted in Figure 1....

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TL;DR: A novel approach is introduced to check the usefulness of this database for bibliometric analysis, and especially research evaluation, instead of names of authors or institutions, a webometric analysis of academic web domains is performed.
Abstract: Google Scholar, the academic bibliographic database provided free-of-charge by the search engine giant Google, has been suggested as an alternative or complementary resource to the commercial citation databases like Web of Knowledge (ISI/Thomson) or Scopus (Elsevier). In order to check the usefulness of this database for bibliometric analysis, and especially research evaluation, a novel approach is introduced. Instead of names of authors or institutions, a webometric analysis of academic web domains is performed. The bibliographic records for 225 top level web domains (TLD), 19,240 university and 6,380 research centres institutional web domains have been collected from the Google Scholar database. About 63.8% of the records are hosted in generic domains like .com or .org, confirming that most of the Scholar data come from large commercial or non-profit sources. Considering only institutions with at least one record, one-third of the other items (10.6% from the global) are hosted by the 10,442 universities, while 3,901 research centres amount for an additional 7.9% from the total. The individual analysis show that universities from China, Brazil, Spain, Taiwan or Indonesia are far better ranked than expected. In some cases, large international or national databases, or repositories are responsible for the high numbers found. However, in many others, the local contents, including papers in low impact journals, popular scientific literature, and unpublished reports or teaching supporting materials are clearly overrepresented. Google Scholar lacks the quality control needed for its use as a bibliometric tool; the larger coverage it provides consists in some cases of items not comparable with those provided by other similar databases.

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"International Information and Libra..." refers background in this paper

  • ...(Elsevier; Aguillo, 2012, p. 343) Moreover, Google Scholar presents a greater visibility of the works as it indexes publications of open access repositories and journals which are not indexed in Scopus or Web of Knowledge....

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David Pendlebury1
TL;DR: The nature and use of the journal impact factor and other common bibliometric measures for assessing research in the sciences and social sciences based on data compiled by Thomson Reuters are reviewed to help government policymakers, university administrators, and individual researchers become better acquainted with the potential benefits and limitations of bibliometrics in the evaluation of research.
Abstract: This article reviews the nature and use of the journal impact factor and other common bibliometric measures for assessing research in the sciences and social sciences based on data compiled by Thomson Reuters. Journal impact factors are frequently misused to assess the influence of individual papers and authors, but such uses were never intended. Thomson Reuters also employs other measures of journal influence, which are contrasted with the impact factor. Finally, the author comments on the proper use of citation data in general, often as a supplement to peer review. This review may help government policymakers, university administrators, and individual researchers become better acquainted with the potential benefits and limitations of bibliometrics in the evaluation of research.

211 citations


"International Information and Libra..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…considered as a barometer in assessing the impact of a journal, but it has been subjected to much controversy and a good deal of misunderstanding (Pendlebury, 2009) as many of the reputed social science journals are excluded from the purview of such measure principally due to the fact that such…...

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