Authorship Pattern in Library and Information Science Journal Literature

The purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis of authorship trends in USA, UK and India. In the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). Nine LIS journals were selected for this study. These details include gender, occupation, affiliation, geographic location and co-authorship. The nine journals selected for this study are published from USA, UK and India. A total of 269 articles by 471 authors were analysed.. In spite of the fact that librarianship is perceived to be female-dominated, a larger number of articles were contributed by male authors except in the case of USA. LIS faculty contributed more articles (c.41%) in comparison to practising librarians, research scholars etc. collaborative papers are predominant in all the journals studied. LIS journals published from UK received more papers from other countries in comparison to journals published from USA and India.