Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 2

Mapping Library and Information Science Research Output: A Bibliometric Study of Panjab University, Chandigarh

1Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. email id: rupak@pu.ac.in

2Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

*Corresponding author: email id: jyotisharma.puchd@gmail.com

Online published on 20 May, 2017.

Abstract

This paper focuses on analysing the research output in the discipline of Library and Information Science (LIS), Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh during the year 1991–2014. The detailed curriculum vitae of faculty members of Department of LIS were obtained and bibliographic information of their papers was recorded. The study deals with 152 publications of PU, Chandigarh in the field of LIS. It examines the LIS output by different ways like document type, authorship pattern and degree of collaboration. The study also examines the relative growth rate of publications, doubling time for publications, annual growth rate (AGR) of the publications and compound AGR of publications.

Keywords

Panjab University, Chandigarh, Library and information science, Authorship pattern, Degree of collaboration relative growth rate, Doubling time, Bibliometric/scientometric analysis