International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 4

Bibliometric Analysis of Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science: 2007–2011

  • Author:
  • Gurjeet Kaur Rattan1,, Kamini Gupta2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 307 to 312

1Assistant Librarian, Punjabi University Extension Library, Mohali

2Librarian, Dev Samaj College of Education, Chandigarh

Abstract

The present study is a “Bibliometric Analysis ” of the journal titled Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science from 2007–2011. The analysis covers mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, geographical distribution of authors, pattern of references etc. The results show that out of 100 articles, single authors contributed 27 (27%) articles while the rest 73 (73%) articles are contributed by joint authors. It has been revealed that most of the contributors are from Malaysia. The study shows that about 62.54% of citations are from periodicals. The most cited periodicals have also been listed.

Keywords

Bibliometric Analysis, Citation Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Electronic Journals