A citation analysis of the doctoral theses in library & information science

The main purpose of the present study is to analyze the citations of the doctoral theses in the discipline of Library and Information Science. The University of Kashmir (NAAC accredited grade A+) has awarded 21 PhD theses from 1994–2018 in the discipline of Library and Information Science having 2612 citations. The result reveals that scholars used 11 bibliographic forms of information sources in 2612 citations and journals are the first citation choice of researchers (52.45%), followed by books (19.10%). The findings of the study revealed that scholars have cited journals mostly published from the USA (47.52%), followed by the United Kingdom (20.92%), whereas India occupies third position with (10.64%) citations respectively. Journal of Documentation is the highly cited journal ranking first with 69 citations followed by Online Information Review with 60 citations and Journal of Medical Library Association with 53 Citations. The authorship patterns show that the single author articles are highly cited (1602; 61.33%) followed by two (589; 22.54%) and three authors (255; 9.762%) respectively.