DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT): A Bibliometric Study ( )

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1 DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT): A Bibliometric Study ( ) Sushma H R Research Scholar, Bangalore University Bangalore, India sushmahrmlis@gmail.com Abstract DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) is more than three decades old journal, published in the field of Library and Information Science, a bimonthly basis, by Defence Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi, India. The journal is enjoying wide readership both at national and international level. The present Bibliometric study was carried on 294 scholarly research articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, during the period The present analysis is mostly confined to examine article distribution pattern of the journal articles, authorship pattern, and geographical distribution of authors and citation analysis of the references attached to the papers. A maximum number of articles (65) were published in On average 9.8 articles were published in the journal in each issue during the period of investigation. A maximum number of contributions are joint collaborations with 191 (64.96 %) articles. A maximum of 133 articles contributed in the journal are on two author pattern, followed by 103 articles as single-authored. Most of the 85 %contributions are from India, 15 % contributions are from abroad and collaboration. The study revealed that majority of the authors preferred journals as the source of information providing the highest number of citations. Dr. BM Gupta has published the maximum number of articles (11) in the Journal during the period under study. The maximum number of articles (70.07 %) has the length of6-10 pages. Maximum numbers of special issues (5) were published in 2012.On average 16.5 references were cited by each article during the period of investigation with total references Keywords: Bibliometric study, DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, SIB, DRDO, DJLIT, Citations 1. INTRODUCTION ThePresent study is confined to DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT), one of the leading Library and Information Science journals in India, over three decades old journal, being published by Defence Science Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), DRDO, GOI, New Delhi since 1981 on bimonthly basis, each volume having six issues. Researchers of the given science all over the world equally prefer to publish their research results in a said journal. Primarily DESIDOC used to be known as Scientific Information Bureau (SIB) and it started functioning in the year 1958 as a constituent of Defence Science Laboratory (DSL), presently known as Defence Science Centre. In the year 1967, the scope of SIB got expanded and accordingly got renamed as DESIDOC and is presently housed in five storied building in the Metcalfe house complex, New Delhi, India. The user can access the journal at Users 718

2 can also log in and submit their articles and view the status of their articles from time to time. The journal uses online reviewing process and the full-text of all the issues starting from the first issue in 1981 is available on the site mentioned (2016) [1]. In order to understand the latest trend and pattern of publication distribution in the field of library and Information Science in India, it was conceived to undertake the bibliometric study on one of the leading and consistent journals of LIS in India and accordingly DJLIT was chosen for the purpose and the present study remains confined to last five years for the period Apart from assessing research output of the journal during the last five years, the aim was also to analyze the authorship pattern, publication pattern, geographical distribution of authors, and reference analysis. During the period of analysis the journal has covered most of the professional areas and aspects of LIS, with a good number of issues dedicated to topics like, Agricultural Information Systems and Services in India, Scientometrics, bibliometric study, E-Books, Intellectual Property Rights: Patents & Copyright, Open Source Software for Libraries, Digital Preservation, Online Exhibitions, Knowledge Organisation, Embedded Librarianship, Semantic Web and so on. Publishing guest editorial in almost every issue of the journal has been the regular feature of the journal. The current study has been undertaken with the sole motto to assess and understand the research output published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during the by employing bibliometric techniques. DJLIT is a peer-reviewed journal, indexed in Library and Information Science Abstract (LISA), Library and Information Science Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Indian Citation Index (ICI), Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) etc. Related Literature: Assessment and quantitative evaluation of research output of scholarly content at regular intervals of times is equally an important activity as the research carried out in a discipline itself. Already a good number of bibliometric studies have been carried out on DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology. The present bibliometric study is an extension of the earlier studies on DESIDOCJournal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) undertaken by Tigga et al. (2005) and Bansal, et al. (2005) these studies were confined to content analysis of DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, Kumar & Moorthy (2011) spanning over the period , Thavamani (2013) spanning over the period , Bansal (2013) spanning over the period , Pandita (2014) spanning over the period ( ), Desai (2014) study was confined to the year 2012, Teli & Maity (2015) study was confined to the citation analysis, Pandita, (2013) in their bibliometric analysis analysed 310 articles published in Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) Journal during the period , Rajev & Joseph (2016) analysed articles published in the Malaysian journal of library and information science (MJLIS) for the period of 2007 to 2013 in their bibliometric study and Manthiramoorthi & Thamaraiselvi (2016) analyzes a bibliometric study of 53 articles was published in the national conference proceedings, etc. are just a few studies to name which have exclusively been undertaken on DJLIT. There were some other areas which were not explored in these studies as such the study was undertaken. 2. OBJECTIVES Following are the objectives of the study: To analyze the number of contributions and the pattern of growth of articles published in the journal spanning over the period ; 719

3 To assess the pattern of authorship; To examine the geographical distribution of articles (Indian/Foreign); To identify the most prolific authors; To study the special issues published; To examine the length of articles published; To study institute-wise distribution of papers; To identify the type of cited documents and their number and To determine an average number of references per article. 3. METHODOLOGY Data and Methodology: The present study is more or less a case of data mining; the data required for analysis, keeping in view the above-mentioned objectives were retrieved from the host website of the journal, accessible at ojs/index.php/djlit/issue/archive. Accordingly, a fair amount of related literature was reviewed so as to have a better idea and understanding of various bibliometric studies already undertaken in different subject fields. Articles published in DJLIT journal during the period (volume 31to volume 35) were extracted, reviewed & put to analysis as per the objectives of the study. The data consists of a year of publication with its volume number, the name of the author with their affiliations and its geographical location, the total count of authors, length of the articles in terms of the number of pages, number of references cited by the article. Editorial published in the journal has not been included in the analysis. The data retrieved was put into excel format so as to achieve the set objectives. Complete count method has been followed for the analysis of the data. 4. ANALYSIS Keeping in view the nature of data and the type of analysis to be carried out, there was no need to hire the expert services. In the present study, the data was simply put to excel format for executing simple operations like addition, subtraction, drawing percentage etc. at all the places percentage has been drawn up to two maximum decimal places and has also been rounded off at some places to next higher percentile value. 4.1 Article Distribution Pattern according to years Table 1 presents the data on the number of papers published during It indicates that 294 articles were published in 30 issues during Thus, on average 58.8 articles were published per year. On average 9.80 articles were published in each issue of the journal. Since the journal is being published on a bi-monthly basis. A maximum number (65) of articles were published in volume 32 (2012) and minimum number (53) of articles were from volume 35(2015). This indicates the increasing importance of the journal among the LIS professional community. The overall distribution of publication percentage is depicted in below-mentioned pie diagram. 720

4 Year Vol No Table 1. Year-wise distribution of articles No. of Issues Published No. of articles Average articles/issue Total Pattern of Authorship Table 2 has been crafted with the view to give a better understanding of the authorship pattern of 294 articles published/ distributed over 5 volumes of the journal. On the whole, we can see there are 103 single author articles, 133 two author articles, and 44 three author articles, 14 four and more than four author articles.maximum numbers of papers133 (45.23%) are from two-authored papers.the Table also depicts year-wise authorship pattern. Out of 294 articles, 191 are joint author publications this in itself confirms that more than 64.96% articles published in the DJLIT during the period of study were published on coauthorship pattern. Table 2. Pattern of authorship in DJLIT during No. of Authors Year Total (%) Single authored (35.04%) articles Two authored (45.23%) articles Three authored (14.97%) 721

5 articles Multi authored (4.76%) articles ( 4) Total (100%) 4.3 Geographical Distribution of Contributions The purpose of having Table 3 was only to assess the geographical affiliations of authors have contributed to DJLIT during the period of study. Articles published in the journals were originated from India and abroad. However, major portion 85.38% of the articles originated from India and about 11.56% from abroad. About 3.06 % articles have been written in international collaboration. These papers were written in collaboration with Singapore, China, UAE, and Thailand. 35 Articles published from abroad were from different countries. Among these highest numbers of articles were from the USA, UK, and Singapore. Other countries that have contributed to the journal are Taiwan, Greece, Nigeria and Kenya, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and UAE. Maximum numbers of articles 251 were from host country India. Among these highest numbers of articles were fromnew Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, and Karnataka. Table 3. Geographical distribution of contributions Country Year Total (%) India (85.38%) Foreign (11.56%) Collaborative (3.06%) Total (100%) 4.4 Prolific Authors Formulation of Table 4 is intended to reflect the major contributors of the journal during the period of study. For a better understanding of article distribution, an attempt has been made to craft the table exactly on the pattern of articles contributed by each individual author. All the authors are important who contribute to the journal. The total number of authors who published papers in the journal was 429 (total papers 294). The analysis was also made about the frequently contributing authors to the journal in terms of a number of articles. Based on the complete counting method 24 authors contributed 3 or more papers and their contribution to the total output is % of the total output. Gupta, B.M has contributed a maximum number of 11 articles to journal during the period of study, constituting 3.74 % of total contribution. Chennupati K. Ramaiah has contributed second highest 08 articles followed by Ashok Kumar, Adarsh Bala, and K. Bhanumurthy having contributed 06 articles each. Apart from this four authors have contributed 05 articles each, three authors 04 articles each, thirteen authors 03 articles each, forty-six authors 02 articles each and 359 authors have contributed 01 article each.table 4 lists authors who contributed three or more papers. Most of these authors (6 authors) were affiliated with institutions situated in Maharashtra. It was followed by institutions of Delhi (5 authors). 3 authors belonged to institutions situated in 722

6 Chandigarh. 2 authors belonged to institutions situated in Karnataka and Kerala each. 1 author each was affiliated with one institution situated in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Puducherry, and Himachal Pradesh. It can be noted that out of these 24 prolific authors, 8authors are affiliated to R&D organizations, whereas 16 authors are affiliated with academic institutions.all the top 24 contributors mentioned below in Table 4 are from the host country. Table 4. Major contributors, their affiliations, and contributions during Sl. No. Name of author and affiliation Total contributions Rank 1 B.M. Gupta, NISTADS, New Delhi Chennupati K. Ramaiah, DLIS, Pondicherry University, Puducherry AdarshBala, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh K. Bhanumurthy, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai B.S. Kademani, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai K. NageswaraRao, DRDL, DRDO, Hyderabad K.C. Garg, CSIR-NISTDS, New Delhi Ritu Gupta, Sri Venkateshwara University, Meerut RajendraKumbhar, DLIS, University of Pune, Pune ShailendraKumar,DLIS, University of Delhi, Delhi Shri Ram, Jaypee University of IT, Solan, Himachal Pradesh Anil Sagar, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai AvinashKshitig, CSIR-NISTDS, Dr K.S.KrishnanMarg, Delhi Bhaskar Mukherjee, DLIS, Guru GhasidasVishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur K.G. PillaiSudhier, Library & Knowledge Centre, University of Kerala M.P. Satija,DLIS, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar MahabaleshwaraRaoBaikady, Manipal University, Karnataka Mohamed Haneefa K, DLIS, University of Calicut, Kerala PratibhaGokhale, University of Mumbai, Mumbai S. Thanuskodi, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar Shalini R Lihitkar, R.T.M., Nagpur University, Nagpur Sunil Kumar Satpathy, NIT, G. E. Road, Raipur (C.G) Suresh Kumar, CSIR-NISTDS, New Delhi V.G. Talwar, Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore

7 4.5 Special Issues The journal has kept pace with time and published special issues quite frequently. The special issue also covers 3-4 general papers also. Table 5 shows the details of special/thematic issues of DJLIT brought out during under the Guest Editorship of eminent LIS professionals both from academic as well as research and development organizations/institutions. Out of 30 issues, 16 issues were published as special issues during Three (10 %) special issues were brought out in 2011 and 2014 respectively, a maximum number of special issues 5 (16.67 %) were published in 2012 and only one (3.33 %) special issue was published in It can be noticed that current topics of readers interest such as semantic web, ontology, e-books, open source software, online exhibitions, Intellectual Property Rights, digital preservation and many such special issues have been brought out during Table 5. Special issues published during Year Vol& Issue No Title Guest Editor 2011 Vol. 31 No. 2 Ontology Dr (Mrs) Pratibha A. Gokhale 2011 Vol. 31 No. 4 Semantic Web SumitGoswami GanganPrathap& B.M Vol. 31 No. 5 Scientometrics Gupta 2012 Vol. 32 No. 1 Agricultural Information Dr K.P. Singh Systems and Services in India 2012 Vol. 32 No. 2 E-Books: Past, Present, and Future Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah 2012 Vol. 32 No. 3 Intellectual Property Rights: Patents & Copyright Dr. Anil Hirwade 2012 Vol. 32 No. 4 Digital Preservation in India Dr Ramesh C. Gaur 2012 Vol. 32 No. 5 Open Source Software for Libraries Dr (Mrs) Shalini R. Lihtikar 2013 Vol. 33 No. 1 Corporate Social Responsibility Dr P.S.N. Murthy 2013 Vol. 33 No. 2 Health Information Systems and Services Dr. H.S. Siddamallaiah 2013 Vol. 33 No. 3 Applications of Online Exhibitions Dr. Chennupati K. Ramaiah 2013 Vol. 33 No. 4 Knowledge Organisation Dr. Jagtar Singh Dr. Chennupati K Vol. 34 No. 2 Trends in Online Exhibitions Ramaiah, 2014 Vol. 34 No. 3 Indian Contribution in Scientometrics B.M. Gupta 2014 Vol. 34 No. 6 Embedded Librarianship Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur 2015 Vol. 35 No. 3 Libraries and Librarianship in India Prof Jaideep Sharma 4.6 Length of Articles An analysis of data on page length published in the journal reveals that during the period under study, the majority of articles 206 (70.07 %) had the page length of 6-10 pages which is normal for research articles. Table 6 present the data on page lengths. Out of the 294 articles, 54 (8.37 %) papers had 1-5 pages; 29 (9.86 %) papers had pages; 4 (1.36 %) 724

8 articles had pages and only one article had (1 %) more than 20 pages. The table also shows the year-wise length of papers. Table 6. Page range (length) of articles published in DJLIT during No. of Pages Year Total (%) to (18.37 %) 6 to (70.07 %) 11 to (9.86 %) 16 to (1.36 %) > (%) Total (100 %) 4.7 Institution-wise Distribution of Papers Table 7 shows the institution-wise distribution of papers published in DJLIT during the period under study. Authors from universities& colleges contributed 243 (82.65%) papers followed closely by 48 papers (16.33%) from government research institutions. Authors from other private institutions comprised of 3 papers (1.02%). Table 7. Institution-wise distribution of articles Institutions Year Total (%) University/ (82.65%) Colleges Govt. Research (16.33%) Institutions Private (1.02%) Institutions Total (100 %) 4.8 Type of Documents Cited and their Referencing Pattern An analysis of data was made to identify the type of documents that were cited by the scholars. The data for the same is presented in Table 9. It indicates that out of 4857 references journals 2221 (45.72 %) were the most preferred and primary source of cited documents followed by web-resources 1297 (26.71 %) and books 676 (13.92 %). Conference Proceedings 493 (10.16 %) ranked fourth in a choice of cited documents, followed by reports 725

9 59 (1.22 %), Thesis 29 (0.59 %), and other sources 82 (1.68 %). Year-wise references were analyzed to understand how the number of references has changed during the period of study. Table 8 shows data on the number of references per paper. It indicates that the number of references per paper is inconsistent and varied between 15 and 18. It was highest (18.4 %) in The average number of references per paper was Also out of 294 articles, 116(39.47 %) articles had a reference range as 11-20, followed by 100 (34.01 %) articles with 1-10 references; 43 (14.62 %) with references; 19 (6.46 %) articles with references and 13 (4.42 %) articles with more than 40 references. Also, there were 3 papers (1.02 %) with no reference. The table also depicts the year-wise numbers of references. Table 8. Type of documents referenced in articles published during Source Total (%) Journals (45.72 %) Internet (26.71 %) Books (13.92 %) Conference/Seminar/Symposium (10.16 %) /proceedings/workshop Reports (1.22 %) Dissertations/Thesis (0.59 %) Other (1.68 %) Total (100 %) Table 9. Range of references in articles published in DJLIT during Year No. of References Total Yearwise No. of ref. Nil >40 total ref. per paper Total

10 5. CONCLUSION The popularity of the adaptation of bibliometric techniques in various disciplines stimulated the stupendous growth of literature on bibliometrics and its related areas. DJLIT has published 294 articles during The maximum number of articles (65) was published in There has been significant growth in the number of articles published from 2011 to The study reveals that the maximum number of contributors 191(64.96 %) are joint authored (two or more authors). Dr. BM Gupta has published a maximum number of articles (11) in the journal and has been the Guest Editor (along with Dr. GanganPrathap) of a special issue on Scientometrics and another special issue on Indian Contribution in Scientometrics. The maximum number of contributions 206 (70.07%) had the length of 6-10 pages which is standard practice for the journal of research articles. Referencing pattern of the journal reveals that majority of the authors preferred journals as the source of citation. Out of 4857 references sourced by the authors, 2221 were quoted from the journals. Thirty issues brought out during the period included 16 special issues from eminent LIS professionals. Authors from universities (243) and government research institutes (48) were the main contributors. As discussed in our review part and has once again emerged that it is the host country which mostly enjoys the maximum contribution in many ways. The present investigation again proved that since India is the host country of the journal as such more than 85 % published by the journal during the period of investigation is from India and only 15% contributions are from abroad and collaboration. All the top 24 contributors mentioned above in Table 4 are formed host country. Only three articles published in the journal have no references at all.djlit has been successful in its primary objective of information dissemination in the field of LIS. DJLIT has emerged as a core journal of LIS and a platform for knowledge sharing, especially among the students of LIS. REFERENCES 1. Bansal, Alka. (2013). DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology: A Bibliometric Analysis. DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, 33(5), Bansal, Alka; et al. (2005). DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology: Success story with content coverage during DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, 25(4), Desai, Kanchan Dinkar. (2014). Bibliometric analysis of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) during Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2 (6), DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology. Retrieved from (accessed on 10 February 2016). 5. Kumar, Manoj & Moorthy, A.L. (2011). Bibliometric analysis of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology during DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 31(3), Manthiramoorthi M & Thamaraiselvi M. (2016). Bibliometric Analysis of National Conference Proceedings: A Study. International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science, 6 (1),

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