British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 33 September 2011, Vol. 1 (2)

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1 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 33 Bibliometric Study of Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship Dr Vaishali Khaparde Head and Associate Professor Department of Library & Information Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra) India Abstract Bibliometric Analysis is a branch of Bibliometrics which deals with the study of complex relationship between cited of citing documents the present study analyzed list citations appended to 84 articles publish at 5 volumes during in the Electronic journal of Academic of special librarianship. The methodology is based on Bibliometric techniques of bibliometirc Analysis. The study shows than an average number of citations are round 14, 19, 16, 13, 22 pert year the. The journals are cit - ed more than other information sources more than other half of the citations are single authored Geographical distribution of citations indicates that India, New York, London & USA. Occupied the top four positions covering 76.74% of citations. This study made an attempt to examine the year wise distribution of citations, type of information sources used, authorship pattern, Geographical distribution & core journals in the field of Electronic Journal of Academic & special librarianship. Key words Bibliometrics, Bibliometric Analysis E- Journal, Academic Library, Special Library. Introduction Bibliometrics is an emerging trust area of research in the field of library Information science. It values the quantitative evaluation of publication of all micro and macro- communications though mathematical and statistical calculation. Bibliometrics Analysis is now considered as an active area of bibliometric research. Etymologically the word bibliometrics is derived from two Greek words Biblio means books metrics means scale or measure Alan Princhard (1967), was first coined the term bibliometrics and defined it as the application of mathematical and Statistical methods to books and other media of communication. Bibliometrics The idea of using bibliometric method in connection with construction and maintences of knowledge organization system is not new but only few actual construction attempts have been made (Patter & Garfield, 1970). Bibliometrics Analysis Scientific research is a cumulative and continuous process, a new research is always based on the earlier works. A reference is the acknowledgement that one document give to another, citations are the List of references appended to each articles painting to prior publications that were used in writing a paper. Bibliometric Analysis is that area of bibliometrics which deals with the study of relationship between the cited and citing document ( Malin,1968). Eugene Garfied, (1983), define the bibliometric analysis as the examination of the frequency patterns and graphs of citations in articles and books.

2 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 34 Bibliometrics analysis is a branch of bibliometrics where the unit of anlaysis is a document that is being cited as a bibliographic references. It is the study of distribution of scattering of references these studies help in the selection of documents saving large amounts to the organizations. It helps in planning and organization of resources sharing, networking and consortia. E- Journal A journal is Academic in nature which is published using the world, wide, web, such a journal usually uses internet technology, refereeing of papers. Many e-journals pride themselves on rapid refereeing and consequent repaid publication ( Gupta,1998). E- Journals defined as the grouping of information that is sent out in electronic with some equality. It covers and serial or serial like publication available in electronic format, which is produced published and distributed electronically (Remesh, Yeramagula, 2003). Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship is an independent professional, referred electronic journal dedicated first and foremost to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship without regard to region or country, it is also committed to principles of open access for academic and special librarianship it is quarterly published journal. Methodology Bibliometric approach is used for the present study. The data relating to all the bibliographical references appended to the articles published in Electronic Journal of Academic and Special librarianship from were collected analyzed and tabulated the scope of the study is restricted to five years only. Objective of the study The study has been carried out with the following objectives. To study the year wise distribution of articles. To study the year wise distribution of citations To know the different types of Information sources used by the authors. To study the authorship pattern of citations. To identified the core journals in Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship. To study the obsolescence of the Journal To study the country wise distribution of citations. Scope and limitation The present study limited to 1151 citations appended to 84 articles in 5 Volumes and 15 issues.from in Electronic journal of academic and special librarianship.

3 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 35 Data collection The relevant data was collected from the Electronic Journals of Academic and special librarianship published from time to time which was treated as a basis for the study. Data can be numerically expressed that is quantifiable on objectives (Fasibis off and Dely 1990). The data was collected from 5 volumes, 15 issues of Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship during In all 1151 citations appended to 84 articles were further analyzed. Data Analysis Analyzed of information or data is one of the important part of any study. Data analyzed is done for the purpose of reducing hug volume of data into meaningful case report. Analysis of total 1151 citations appended 84 articles was done of the journal during The study was done by using varies parameters like to identify the core journal, rank list of cited journal, rank list of the cited author of cited to find out geographical distribution of citations to find out the types of cited documents. The data of information was presented in the form of table and graphs to show the result prominently. Year wise distribution of article The year wise distribution of 84 article published from 2005 to 2009 in 5 volume is containing 15 issues of the Journal is presented in the table No.1 the table 1 shows that highest number of articles were in the year 2009 with 22 articles. The range of article published per year during the period is between 19 and 16. It is noted that the average number of articles published per volume is Table No. 1 Year Wise Distribution of Articles Sr.No. Year Volume No. No.of Articles Cumulative Published Total 5 84 Year Wise distribution of citations: The year wise distribution of citations is present in table 2. It shows that the highest number of citations were used were in the year 2009 with 311 (27.01%) citations. The range of citations found under the study is between. 255(12.15%) and 220(19.11%) in five years. The average citations per volume are the average number of citations per articles is approximately. Table No.2 Year Wise distribution of citations Sr.No. Year No. of. Cumulative total Percent Cumulative Percentage

4 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Total Distribution of citations in different types of Information sources : Distribution of citations in different types of Information sources is presented in table No.2 citations are grouped in eight broad categories of information sources. The table 3 revealed that the number of citations from books and periodicals are higher than other documents. The study observed that journals accounted highest number of journals citation with 390 (33.88%). Followed by books with 290 (25.19%) and web resources with 200(17.37%) citations seminar / conferences / workshop / symposium had 74 (6.42%) citations news paper had 32(2.78%) citations it was seen that the social scientist use mostly journal articles for their research. Table No. 3 Distribution of citations in different types of Information sources Sr. No. Type of Information sources No. of. Cumulative total Percent Cumulative Percentage 1 Books Journal article Report (Research Govt Annual etc.) 4 Proceeding / workshop conference / seminars etc 5 Thesis / Dissertation s News Paper Web resources Others Total Books Journal articles Report ( Research Govt. annual etc.) Proceeding / workshop conference / seminars etc Thesis / Dissertation s News Paper Web resources

5 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 37 Fig 1: Distribution of Citation in different types of information sources Authorship Pattern of Table No.4 shows the distribution of citations according to number of authors, from the table 41 it is evident that 552 (47.95%) of citations are contributed by the single author followed by two authors with 230 (19.98%) three authors 98(8.51%) citations and more than three authors with 49 (4.25%) of citations are contributed by the corporate authors 210 (18.24%) citations 12(1.04%) citations have not mentioned the author. Table No. 4. : Authorship Pattern of Sr. No. No. of Author No. of. Cumulative total Percent Cumulative Percentage 1 Single Author Two Author Three Author More than Three author 5 Corporate Author Author not Mentioned Total Single Author Two Author Three authros More than three author corporate author Author not mentioned Country wise distribution of citations Fig 2: Authorship Pattern of Table No. 5 Provides the information about the country wise distribution of citations. It is observed that India, New York, London occurred the top positions followed by Nigeria, London, UK, Thailand, Australia, America, Africa, Canada, Chicago, California etc. Indian alone published % of total citations and occupied first position followed by New York 13.03% and London with 12.09%. It is very interesting to note here that only countries, namely. India, New York, London together produce 76.74% of total citations and the remaining 23.26% citations were produce by other countries.

6 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 38 Table No.5: Country wise distribution of citation Sr. Country No. Of Percentage No. 1. India New York 3. London USA UK America Thailand Australia 9. Africa Canada Chicago Alifornia Nigeria China Total Ranked list of most cited journals The table 6 shows ranked list of cited journals. It can be ascertained the college and research libraries (India)a multi-disciplinary journal occupies the first rank as the most preferred journal having been cited 20 times. Occupies the second rank with 18 citations in Library Tread (Chinese) Occupies the third rank with 17 citations and Journal of American Society for Librarianship (America) ranked fourth with 16 citatios and Library -Hi-Tech (Africa)and Library Review(USA)occupies the fifth ranks. Chronological, distribution of citations All the 1151 citations referred by the contributors in there publications are arranged in chronological order in table 7. All these citations fall into five year sequences. The citations of 1950 and before were kept in first sequence and the next sequence was for every five years citations and the last sequence was The table clearly indicates that The sequence has highest number of 225 (19.54%) citations followed by 115 (9.99%) citations in the year

7 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 39 Sr. No. Rank No Table No.6: Ranked List of most Cited Journals Name of the Journal No. of Percentag Citati e on Country 1. 1 College and research, libraries India 2. 1 Library News USA 3. 2 Journal of Education for Lib and India Information Science 4. 2 Library trend New York 5. 3 Journals of American Society for America Information Science Research 6. 3 Library and Information Science research London 7. 3 Journal of Academic Librarianship London 8. 3 Journal of Library and Information Science Africa 9. 3 CODEJRIA Bulletin Chaina Library Hi. Tech Africa International Journal of Information Nigeria Management Library Review USA Library collection acquisition and India Technical Service Indian, Institute of Management New York Reference Libraries India DESIDOC Bulletin of Information UK Technology Library Journal India African Journal of Archives and Africa Information Science Collection development USA Journal of Knowledge management London Library and Information Research London The journal of Academic Librarian ship USA Educational technology Research and India Development The serial libraries India Journal of Documentation India College, Undergraduate Library California Contraception Canada Bulletin Medical Library Association Chicago Total

8 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 40 Table No. 7 Chronological distribution of citation Period No. of cumulative Citation cumulative Percentage of per citations 1950 to Before Unidentified Total Table N0.8- Obsolescence of Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship Age in Year Cumulative citations Percentage Cumulative Percentage Above Unidentified Total

9 British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 41 Figure no 3. Obsolescence of Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship above Obsolescence of Electronic Journal of Academic and Special librarianship The obsolescence rate of literature can be assessed by citation analysis which can give an indication of how far a research er must go back to obtain a reprwsentative sample of the publish literature in a given field All these citations fall into five year sequences. The table clearly indicates that ages in year sequence has highest number of 215 (18.68%)citations followed by 125 (10.88%) citations in the age in years and 115 (9.99%)third rank with years and 107(9.29%)ranked fourth in number of citations in years. Obsolescence has been defined as the decline over time in validity or usability of information. It is found to vary from one subject to another and from one country to another and characteristics of subjects etc. It has been found that a large number of obsolescence studies have been reported in the field of science and technology than in library and information science. Conclusion Bibliometric studies do provide some guide lines for the librarians and Information scientist in the decision making process in their acquisition policy. These finding are much. helpful for librarians and information scientists while taking decision regarding collection development removing out dated documents from the shelves and also in maintaining need based collection in librarians. The following conclusions are drawn - In the year wise distribution of articles. 84 articles published from in 5 volumes containing 15 issues of the journal is presented in the table no. 1. It was seen that the number of articles published in higest in the year. - Distribution of citations in different types of information sources inpresented. It is revealed that number of citations from journal articles. 390 (33.88%) are higest than other documents. - The authorship pattern shows that 535(47.95%) of the citations are contributed by single authors and followed by two authors with 230 (19.98%) and corporate authors with 210(18.24%). - Geographical distribution of citations indicated that India done publish 28.41% followed by New York with 8.45%. - Regarding core journal in the study the first six journal titles account for 28.16% of citations.

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