Abstract:
This article analyzed the various bibliometric components of the articles published
in the Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science from 1996 to 2012.
Various quality aspects of the 279 articles published in the period were studied.
The study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of the journal, such
as its distribution of article by year, authorship patterns, distribution of
contributions by institution, subject distributions, citation patterns, length of article,
and geographical distributions of authors. Analysis of data reveals that more
number of research articles are published from Malaysia followed by India.
Bibliometrics / Scientrometrics / Journal Studies and User Studies are leading
subject areas have been carried out during this period. The highest number of
contributions was published in the year of 2011. The maximum number of articles
has been contributed by academic institutions. Citation analysis of 6779 citations
includes finding out average number of citations per contribution. The average
degree of author collaboration has been arrived at 0.645 during the study period.
Machine summary:
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More specific objectives are as follows: â• To study growth of research articles by year and issue, â• To study authorship patterns, ••• To identify degree of author collaboration, ••• To study authorship patterns by volume, ••• To find out the contribution by subjects, ••• To study contribution by institutions, â• To examine the average length of articles, â• To study average number of citations per article, and ••• To study types of publications cited in the articles of the journal.
The research article contributions by issue and year, number of authors, authorship patterns by volume, degree of author's collaboration, contributions by subject, institution, global and citations per anicle are studied.