Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue: 1

Library philosophy and practice (e-journal): Bibliometric study from 2005–2010

  • Author:
  • S. Jayaraman1, N. Krishnaswamy2, S. Nataraja Moorthi3
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 1 to 10

1Visiting Faculty, Karpagam University, Coimbatore-641 021, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: jaisraman@gmail.com

2Chief Librarian, Central Library, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: kasc_krish@yahoo.co.in

3Librarian, Tamilnadu College of Engineering, Coimbatore-641 659, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: snm_tcelib@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 27 February, 2013.

Abstract

This study aims at analysing the research output performance of library philosophy and practice on library science subjects. The analysis covers mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise distribution of articles, average number of references per articles, forms of documents cited, year wise distribution of cited journals etc.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Productivity of authors, Degree of collaboration, Citation analysis, Length of articlesForms of cited reference