Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Authorship Behavior in the Articles Appeared in Library Philosophy and Practice

1Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India

2Librarian, Govt. Co-Ed. Secondary School, SMM, Naya Bazar, Delhi-110006

(*Corresponding author) email id: meeradlis@gmail.com

**ruchi.may06@gmail.com

Online Published on 14 February, 2023.

Abstract

This article presents a study about the authorship behavior and the collaboration pattern for the articles that appeared in the journal Library Philosophy and Practice during 2011-2016. The Zipf’s law of word occurrence and Lotka’s law are tested for this research. Further, the collaboration index, degree of collaboration, average paper per author, average author per paper, national and international collaboration is investigated for the period of study.

Keywords

Authorship pattern, Collaboration pattern, Productivity per author (PPA), Degree of collaboration (DC), Collaboration index (CI), Lotka’s law, Zipf’s law, Average author per paper (AAPP)