Publication Trends in Library and Information Science: A Bibliometric Analysis of Pearl: Journal of Library and Information Science

The paper brings out the results of a bibliometric analysis of the journal titled ‘Pearl: Journal of Library & Information Science’ for the period from 2007 to 2015. The required data were downloaded from the Indian Citation Index database. This study aims at analysing the research output performance of Library scientists on library & information science subjects. The paper analyses a citation study of 332 articles (57 times cited) which were published from 2007 to 2015 in the Pearl: Journal of Library & Information Science. The paper covers the bibliometric analyses of year-wise publication of articles, issue-wise authorship patterns, institutions-wise publication of contributions, state-wise, city-wise and country-wise publication of articles. The study has found that the contributions of articles to PEARL were not only from in India but also from foreign countries. The result showed that out of 332 articles multiple authors contributed 60.84%, whereas the rest 39.16% articles were contributed by single author. Further, study also examines the length of articles and average number of references in the articles.