1Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore, 570 006, INDIA. E-mail: ns.harinarayana@gmail.com.
2Government First Grade College, Periyapatna, 571107, Mysore Dist., INDIA. E-mail: vasanthrz@gmail.com.
This paper presents the findings of a citation analysis study, the impact of S.R. Ranganathan's (SRR's) seminal works, namely, Five laws of library science, Prolegomena to library classification, and Colon classification. More specifically the objective was to quantify the impact of SRR's works through citation analysis, and to study the citation pattern to SRR's works. Google Scholar (GS) was the major data source for the study. We searched the GS during the first week of December 2008 SRR was a prolific writer with over 50 books and over 1000 articles) GS's 894 citations, of which more than half (54.8%) is accounted for by the three books of SRR just mentioned. Presents ranked list of authors citing SRR's three works, their affiliation the periodicals in which these authors have published and related statistics.
Ranganathan, S.R., Books, Bibliometric analysis, Citation analysis, Google scholar application
