Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Publication Productivity of ‘Information Literacy’ in Scopus during 2007 to 2016

1Director, Knowledge Resource Centre, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India. librarian@bamu.ac.in

2Information Scientist, Knowledge Resource Center, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India. khistegajanan@gmail.com

3Assistant Librarian, Rajiv Gandhi College of Food Technology, Parbhani, India. rahulkd02@gmail.com

Online published on 16 February, 2018.

Abstract

At present Information Literacy Study is a dynamic area of research in which majority of research work is being done. In this regard the Scopus is a premier research platform, helping to find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The present paper discusses the term ―Information Literacy‖ as reflected in SCOPUS during the period during 2007 to 2016. The present paper investigates the highly productive authors, Document Types; it aims to find out the top contributing institutions, the preferred sources for publications, documents by country, Subject area, Source Type, Affiliation, and Language etc. The result indicates that there were total 2097 documents on ―Information Literacy‖ in Scopus during 2007 to 2016.

Keywords

Information Literacy, Scopus, Publication Productivity, Prolific Authors, Ranking Sources