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Library Progress (International) Vol.39 No.2, 2019: P.346-360 DOI: 10.5958/2320-317X.2019.00037.0

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Bibliometric Study of KELPRO Bulletin: A Bi-Annual Journal of Kerala Library Professionals’ Organisation

Manoj Kumar Sinha*, Sangita Paul**, Manoj Kumar Verma***

Author’s Affiliation:

*Professor , Research Supervisor, HoD, Department of Library & Information Science , Dean, SVSLSc, & Acting Librarian (Rabindra Library) , Assam University, Silchar- 788011, Assam India. E-mail: [email protected]

**Department of Library & Information Science, Assam University, Silchar, Assam 788011, India. ***Associate Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Mizoram University, Mizoram

796004, India. E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding Author: Manoj Kumar Sinha, Professor , Research Supervisor, HoD, Department of

Library & Information Science , Dean, SVSLSc, & Acting Librarian (Rabindra Library) , Assam University, Silchar- 788011, Assam , India. E-mail: [email protected]

Received on 28.07.2019, Accepted on 12.09.2019

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a bibliometric study of the articles and citations given in the KELPRO Bulletin: A Bi-Annual Journal of Kerala Library Professionals’ Organisation published during 1997-2014. This paper includes year-wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern, geographical distribution of articles, subject coverage of articles, rank list of authors of KELPRO Bulletin articles of a particular period, etc. The analysis reveals that the Kelpro Bulletin has published an average of 15 articles per year, the maximum number of contributions are from single authors with 50.00%, and the analysis also shows that the majority of the contributions are from India with 98.89%. The majority of contributions (77= 28.52%) appeared under Computer Applications in library activities and services. The rank wise distribution of authors reveals that S. Humayoon Kabir occupies the top rank by contributing the highest number of articles (10) which has been followed by Manoj Kumar Sinha by contributing seven (7) research papers. The majority of the articles (44.81%) have a length of 6 to 10 pages. Most of the contributors preferred scholarly journals as the main source of information for writing their research papers/articles contributing to the highest number of citations (59.01%). Annals of Library and Information Studies is the most cited and top-ranking journal with altogether 106 citations.

KEYWORDS: Bibliometric study, Year-wise distribution of articles, Authorship pattern, Geographical distribution of articles, Subject coverage of articles, Rank list of Authors, Kelpro Bulletin

Manoj Kumar Sinha, Sangita Paul, Manoj Kumar Verma

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1. INTRODUCTION

Journals are important media for communication and they are the primary source of information

which publishes the articles including the current development in any field of knowledge and they also play a vital role for communicating the latest research findings. Scholarly journals act as forceful reflectors for carried out new trends in any field and are the indicators of literature growth in any discipline and are the main channel for transfer of knowledge.

Information forms the integral base for the cultural, economic and scientific development of the country as a whole and is one of the most useful resources for a nation. Information has been increasing at an exponential rate since the first scientific journal started publication in 1665, the

journal publication has also been increasing.

Bibliometric study is a distinctive research technique for measurement of science based on citation data and it sees the effectiveness of a system. It has extensive applications in the field of library and information science and it is the quantitative description of the literature, helps in the measurement of

patterns of all forms of recorded information. 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Many primary and secondary sources of information have been consulted and gone through details in order to have theoretical perspective of the concept of the bibliometric study and citation analysis

and reviewed the previous studies undertaken on different subjects and journals. From the review of

literature, a brief summary has been enumerated below in different headings and sub-headings:

Mete and Deshmukh (1996) analysed the ‘Annals of Library Science and Documentation’ which discusses the citation analysis of articles of Annals of Library Science and Documentation from the

year 1984-93. This study found that library professionals have the tendency to refer to the journals in which they write.

Deshpande and Rajyalakshmi (1997), analysed the dissertations in Library and Information Science from the year 1990-94, which have been submitted to the Nagpur University. The study reveals that

the Annals of Library Science and Documentation was the most cited journal. Majeed (2001) has undertaken a studied the LIS Literature in University News, which reveals the significance of LIS literature which is published through non-LIS periodicals. For this bibliometric

study of the LIS articles of University News published during the period from 1983-2000 was carried out.

Parameswaran and K G (2001) evaluated the LISA through bibliometric analysis, which includes 60 issues of LISA published during 1994-1998 for analysis. The study reveals that Indian and foreign

journals having a maximum number of citations have been recognised and the authors publishing the maximum number of articles have been recognised. Rajendran Pillai (2005), evaluated the KELPRO BULLETIN through a bibliometric analysis. Within

this study, bibliometric analysis of articles and citations of Kelpro Bulletin from the year 1997-2004 has been carried out. This study reveals that the journal has the highest number of contributions in

the area of computer application in library and information science during the period of study. The journal has published 121 articles during the period of study and most of the contributors are single authors with 58.68%.

Patra and Chand (2006) studied the library and information science research in India. Within this study, the analysis of library and information science research literature from India has been carried out. The study reveals that most of the LIS research output of India is published in Indian journals.



Thanuskodi (2011) analysed the Library Herald journal for the period between 2006 to 2010. The analysis finds out that out of 138 articles 66 (47.83%) articles were contributed by joint authors while the rest72(52.17%) contributed by single author.

Garg and Bebi (2014) evaluated the Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) through a citation study. This study reveals the immediacy index and impact factor of both the journal and also reveals that DJLIT published more papers and receives more citations than ALIS.

Patra (2014) conducted a Google scholar-based citation analysis of Indian Library and Information

Science journals. Google scholar is the only available global database for the citation analysis of Indian LIS Journals. This study focused on the citation and authorship patterns of selected LIS

Journals and this study reveals that Indian LIS Journals have low visibility even in Google Scholar.

Wankhede, Kakde and Bhikaji (2015) conducted a bibliometric analysis of the Urban Library Journal on DOAJ. In this study, the bibliometric analysis of 36 papers published in this journal during the period 2010-2014 has been carried out. The study reveals that most of the papers (33.33%) of papers

were contributed by multiple authors. United States is the top producing country with 100% publications of the total output.

Lokande and Sawant (2015) studied the authorship of Indian LIS literature. Under this study, it was

found that Indians are the largest contributors of LIS literature published from India, that nearly

entire LIS literature published from India is contributed by LIS fraternity only, and that, among all Indian authors of LIS literature published from India, share of Academic Librarians is larger than LIS

Faculty. Rajneesh and Rana (2015) made a citation analysis of Computer Science Literature. In this paper the analysis and evaluation of the citation behaviour and use pattern of computer scientists/researchers

has been carried out. This study shows that many important indicators pertaining to computer science literature relating to citation behaviour of computer science research. Borthakur and Sinha (2016) have studied the trends of publications by the scientists of NEIST, CSIR

Laboratary, Jorhat whereas Sinha and Singha (2016) comprehensively conducted a bibliometric

study of MLIS Dissertations submitted by Masters Students of Department of Library and Information Science , Assam University, Silchar during 2012-13 and found that Sinha, Manoj Kumar was most prolific one of the prolific authors with highest number of citations in the dissertations under the study.

3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY The significance of the present study is to analyse the articles and citations given in the KELPRO BULLETIN published during 1997-2014. This study identifies year-wise distribution of articles,

authorship pattern, geographical distribution of articles, subject coverage of articles, rank list of authors of KELPRO Bulletin articles of a particular period, etc.

4. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The main objective of this paper is to examine the bibliometric pattern of the research papers

published in Kelpro Bulletin during 1997 to 2014 which has been undertaken considering the two aspects viz., Analysis of the Research papers/ Articles and Analysis of the Citations which have been

appended with each research paper and article: Analysis of Articles 1. To make an analysis of articles of KELPRO Bulletin published during 1997 to 2014;



2. To examine the number of Research Papers / Articles published in KELPRO BULLETIN during

the period of study; 3. To find out the Year Wise Distribution of Articles;

4. To examine the Authorship Pattern of the contributing authors; 5. To determine the Geographical Distribution of Articles;

6. To determine the Subject Coverage of Articles; 7. To determine the most prolific authors / Rank Wise Distribution of Authors of KELPRO Bulletin

articles published during 1997-2014 ; 8. To find out the rank of Year Wise Distribution of articles published in KELPRO Bulletin during

1997-2014; and

9. To examine the Length of Articles published in KELPRO BULLETIN. Analysis of Citations 1. To determine the Articles with References and Without References; 2. To determine the Year-Wise Distribution of Cited Journals; 3. To determine the Authorship Pattern of Cited Journal; 4. To determine the number and Forms of Documents Cited; and

5. To find out the Rank List of Cited Journals. 5. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The present study has been conducted using eighteen volumes (vol. 1 to 18 ) containing 36 issues of KELPRO Bulletin published during the year 1997 to 2014, except vol. 10 (2) which was missing in the

Assam University Library. However, an attempt has been taken to collect the said issue but could not get success.

Quantitative Research Methodology has been applied in the present study which is Bibliometric study conducted into two parts:

Article Analysis

Citation Analysis 6. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 6.1. An Analysis of Articles In this case, all the details such as author(s), title, year of publication, pagination etc. of all articles

published during 1997 to 2014 were recorded for the following analysis. 6. A.1 Number of Articles Published during 1997-2014

The data as shown in Table-1 reveals that altogether a total number of 270 articles have been

published during the period 1997-2014 which have been collected and recorded for the present study. The result shown in Table-1 showed that the maximum number of articles published was in the year 1997(25) and a minimum number of articles (only eight number of articles) were published in the year 2006. The journal KELPRO Bulletin publishes average of 15 articles per year.

Table 1: Year-wise distribution of Articles Published during (1997-2014)

Year No. of articles Percentage

1997 25 9.26

1998 15 5.55

1999 14 5.18

2000 11 4.07



2001 21 0.08

2002 14 5.18

2003 10 3.17

2004 11 4.07

2005 12 4.44

2006 8 2.96

2007 15 5.55

2008 15 5.55

2009 12 4.44

2010 14 5.18

2011 17 6.29

2012 17 6.29

2013 22 8.15

2014 17 6.29

Figure 1: Year Wise Distribution of Articles Published during 1997-2014 6. A.2 Authorship pattern of articles

The results as shown in Table-2 reveals the authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study. A maximum number of articles were contributed by single author 135(50.00 %), which is followed by two authors with 113 articles (41.8%), three authors were contributed with 20 articles (7.41%) and four authors with 02 number of articles (0.74% ) of the total articles. The findings

reveals that about 50% articles are published by single authors showing the trend of 50% research carried out by the LIS professionals as a single author which indicates the 50 % inclination of the authors to collaborate and 50.0 % authors inclination to publish independently as single author to have more API score for their promotion.

Table 2: Authorship Patterns of Articles (N = 270)

Year No. of Authors Total

1 2 3 4

1997 17 6 2 0 25

1998 5 10 0 0 15

1999 5 8 0 1 14

2000 7 3 1 0 11

2001 11 9 1 0 21

2002 10 3 1 0 14

2003 7 3 0 0 10

2004 9 2 0 0 11

2005 9 2 1 0 12

2006 4 3 1 0 8



2007 8 4 3 0 15

2008 6 6 3 0 15

2009 3 6 3 0 12

2010 5 8 0 1 14

2011 10 6 1 0 17

2012 6 9 2 0 17

2013 8 13 1 0 22

2014 5 12 0 0 17

Total 135 113 20 2 270

Percentage 50.0 41.8 7.41 0.74 100.00

Figure 2: Authorship Pattern of Articles 6. A.3 Geographical Distribution of Articles Published in KELPRO Bulletin Table- 3 showed that most of the contributions (267) are from India with 98.89% and the rest 1.11% only from foreign sources. The LIS Professionals are accessing Indian Journals as they don’t have

access to foreign scholarly journals as they are costly.

Table 3: Geographical Area Wise Distribution of Articles (N = 270)

Area No. of Articles Percentage

India 267 98.89

Foreign 3 1.11

Total 270 100

Figure 3: Geographical Area Wise Distribution of Articles



6. A.4 Subject Coverage of Articles The research findings as shown in Table- 4 indicates that majority of contributions in the KELPRO Bulletin appeared under Computer Application 78 (28.89%) and placed at 1st Rank which has been

followed by Library and Information Science 55(20.37%) which is followed by Other subjects 33(12.22%) and Bibliometric studies 22(8.15%). The results indicates that LIS professionals are now

manly concentrating on computer application in libraries and core library science research is comparatively having lesser coverage. Table 4: Subject Area Coverage of Research Papers/ Articles (N = 270)

Subject Area of Papers/ Articles No. of Articles

Percentage Rank

Library and Information Science 55 20.37 II

Library Profession 8 2.96 VI

Academic Libraries 8 2.96 VI

Public Libraries 8 2.96 VI

Special Libraries 3 1.11

Computer Application 78 28.89 I

Bibliometric Studies 22 8.15 IV

User Studies 8 2.96 VI

Library and Internet 16 5.92 V

Periodicals 5 1.85 IX

Knowledge Management 2 0.74 X

Scientometric Studies 6 2.22 VIII

Webometric Studies 2 0.74 X

Open source Library software 11 4.07 VII

Library Consortia 5 1.85 IX

Other Subjects/ Topics 33 12.22 III

Total 270 100

Figure 4: Subject Area Coverage of Research Papers / Articles 6. A.5 Rank Wise Distribution of Authors/ Identification of Prolific Authors

The study results as shown in Table- 5 reveals that Dr. S. Humayoon Kabir occupies the top rank by contributing maximum number of 10 articles, which is followed by Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha who

occupies the 2nd rank by contributing seven number (7) of articles, Dr. A. Gopikuttan, K C A Majeed, Dr. Khaiser Nikam and M. Paremeswaran , each contributing 5 articles, are placed on 3rd rank, Dr. K.



Kaliyaperumal, Dr. Raju Mathew, Dr. Jalaja V, each contributing 4 articles , which has been placed as

4th rank, whereas Dr. S. Gopalakrishnan, C, Anil Kumar, P. Sunil Kumar, K, P. Vijaya Kumar, etc. each contributing 3 articles, who have been placed at 5th rank and the remaining 42 number of

authors with 2 articles, etc. are placed at 6th rank.

Table 5: List of Prolific Authors / Rank Wise Distribution of Authors

Name of the Author No. of articles Rank

Dr. S. Humayoon kabir 10 I

Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha 7 II

Dr. A, Gopikuttan 5 III

KCA Majeed 5 III

Dr. Khaiser Nikam 5 III

M. Paremeswaran 5 III

Dr. K.Kaliyaperumal 4 IV

Dr. Raju Mathew 4 IV

Dr. Jalaja V. 4 IV

Dr. S.Gopalakrishnan 3 V

C, Anil Kumar 3 V

P. Sunil Kumar 3 V

K.P. Vijaya Kumar 3 V

Mehaboobullah K. 3 V

R, Rajani 3 V

Joy Vithayathil 3 V

V.L. Kalpana 3 V

Rakhi V.S. 3 V

6. A.6 Year Wise Distribution of Articles The year-wise distribution of articles as shown in Table -6 reveals that the maximum number of articles were published in the year 1997 (25), which have occupied the top rank and the minimum

number of articles were published in the year 2006 (8), which occupied the last rank. It is evident from the study that in initial years, number of contributions are more and gradually it has been declining. The coverage of articles in the journals depends on the contributions made by the authors during that

period of publications.

Table 6: Year Wise Distribution of Number of Research Papers/ Articles per Volume and Their Ranks

Year No. of articles Rank

1997 25 1

1998 15 5

1999 14 6

2000 11 8

2001 21 3

2002 14 6

2003 10 9

2004 11 8

2005 12 7

2006 8 10

2007 15 5

2008 15 5

2009 12 7



2010 14 6

2011 17 4

2012 17 4

2013 22 2

2014 17 4

6. A.7 Length Wise Distribution of Articles

Length of articles wise distribution of research papers has been shown in Table 7 which reveals that the majority of the articles (121 = 44.81%) have the length of 6 to 10 pages which are followed by 82 (30.37%) articles with 11 & more pages and the remaining 67 (24.81%) articles are having the length of 1 to 5 pages. The length of articles depends upon the quality of papers and parameters/variables

taken for the study which vary from articles to articles

Table 7: Paper Length Wise Distribution of Articles (N = 270)

Year Pages Total

1 to 5 6 to 10 11 & more

1997 8 11 6 25

1998 5 7 3 15

1999 5 4 5 14

2000 7 1 3 11

2001 11 9 1 21

2002 7 5 2 14

2003 2 6 2 10

2004 6 4 1 11

2005 3 8 1 12

2006 2 5 1 8

2007 4 6 5 15

2008 2 5 8 15

2009 3 7 2 12

2010 0 9 5 14

2011 1 7 9 17

2012 1 11 5 17

2013 0 12 10 22

2014 0 4 13 17

Total 67 121 82 270

Percentage 24.81 44.81 30.37 100

Figure 5: Paper Length Wise Distribution of Articles



6. A.8 Articles With References and Without References

The results as shown in Table- 8 showed that the majority of research papers (95.92%) / or articles are

published with references whereas only 4.07% of articles are without references. It is interesting to note that LIS Professionals are more acquainted with the bibliography/references. So they have taken care to include references in their articles except few who might be new authors.

Table 8: Research Papers/ Articles With and Without Proper References (N = 270)

Category No. of Contributions Percentage (%)

With Proper References 259 95.92

Without Proper References 11 4.07

Total 270 100

6. B.1 Year- Wise Distribution of Journal Citations The study results as shown in Table -9 reveals that a maximum number of journal citations produced in the year 2012 (291) and minimum number of journal citations are published in the year 2006 (24). The number of citations may increase or decrease which would depend on a number of papers

published during the year.

Table 9: Year- Wise Distribution of Citations of Articles Published in Kelpro Bulletin (N = 2017)

Year Vol. No. No. of Journal Citations

1997 1 286

1998 2 133

1999 3 133

2000 4 36

2001 5 88

2002 6 30

2003 7 69

2004 8 67

2005 9 40

2006 10 24

2007 11 35

2008 12 101

2009 13 78

2010 14 36

2011 15 64

2012 16 291

2013 17 217

2014 18 289

Total 2017

Figure 6: Year- Wise Distribution of Citations of Articles Published in Kelpro Bulleti



6. B.2 Authorship Pattern of Cited Journal / Papers The study results as shown in Table -10 reveals that out of 2017 citations the number of single authors

cited papers is maximum (1184 =58.7%) citations which are followed by double authors with 565 (28.01%) papers whereas 268 (13.29%) citations are from more than two authors papers.

The findings reveal that in LIS research, the LIS Professionals are writing research paper individually and there has been the least number of collaboration work. Therefore, the LIS Professionals should

collaborate in research which will help in producing high-quality research and more number of output will be produced.

Table 10: Authorship Pattern in Research Papers Cited in Kelpro Bulletin (N = 2017)

Year Type of Author

Total Single Author

Two Author

More than two Authors

1997 185 71 30 286

1998 86 33 14 133

1999 96 27 10 133

2000 25 5 6 36

2001 43 29 16 88

2002 23 5 2 30

2003 31 27 11 69

2004 34 26 7 67

2005 26 5 3 34

2006 13 6 7 26

2007 22 9 4 35

2008 44 20 11 75

2009 40 28 7 75

2010 15 17 4 36

2011 43 20 4 67

2012 234 79 27 340

2013 98 76 49 223

2014 126 82 56 264

Total 1184 565 268 2017

Percentage 58.7 28.01 13.29 100

Figure 7: Authorship Pattern in Research Papers Cited in Kelpro Bulletin



6. B.3 Forms of Document Cited

The findings as shown in Table -11 showed that the majority of the authors preferred journals as the

source of information which occupied the top rank with the highest number of citations (2017 = 59.01%) of the total 3413 citations. The second rank is occupied by books with 571 (16.73%) citations. It is followed by others documents with 480 (14.06%), whereas the Seminars/Conference proceedings with 152 (4.45%), Reference books with 139 (4.07%) and Dissertations with 54 (1.58%) citations.

Therefore, based on the result of the Table- 11, it can be said that the dissertations have less number of citations. So, there is a need to make people aware to consult Theses and Dissertations for research. Table 11: Forms of Document Cited in Research Papers Published in Kelpro Bulletin (N = 3413)

Forms of Document Total no. of Citation Percentage

Journal 2017 59.01

Books 571 16.73

Reference books 139 4.07

Seminars/ conference Proceedings 152 4.45

Dissertations 54 1.58

Others 480 14.06

Total 3413 100

6. B.4 Rank list of Cited Journals The result as shown in Table -12 showed that Annals of Library and Information Studies is the most

cited and top-ranking journal with 106 citations (1st Rank) which is followed by DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology which occupies the 2nd Rank with 65 citations. It is followed by IASLIC

Bulletin which occupies the 3rd Rank, with 51 citations. On the basis of the abovestudy, the concerned library may take the decision to subscribe top 10 or 20 ranked journals for their library which are most

popular among the LIS professionals and researchers. Figure 11: Forms of Document Cited in Kelpro Bulletin

Sr. No. Name of journal No. of citation

Rank

1 Annals of Library and Information studies 106 I

2 DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology 65 II

3 IASLIC Bulletin 51 III

4 Library science with a slant to Documentation &

Information studies

45 IV

5 Scientometrics 42 V

6 Journal of American Society for Information science 42 V

7 KELPRO BULLETIN 39 VI

8 Aslib proceedings 33 VII

9 Journal of Documentation 32 VIII

10 Journal of Information Science 29 IX

11 Herald of Library science 28 X

12 University News 27 XI

13 College and Research Libraries 27 XI

14 SRELS Journal of Information Management 26 XII

15 Library Hi-Tech 24 XIII

16 The Electronic Library 22 XIV

17 Program 21 XV

18 Malaysian Journal of Library and Information science 20 XVI

19 Information today and tomorrow 19 XVII

20 Information Technology &Libraries 16 XVIII



21 Information studies 14 XIX

22 Library Quarterly 13 XX

23 Library Management 12 XXI

24 ILA Bulletin 10 XXII

25 Indian Journal of Information, 10 XXII

26 Library and Society 10 XXII

27 Journal of Library Administration 10 XXII

28 Bulletin of Medical Library Association 10 XXII

29 International Information Communication and Education 9 XXIII

30 Information Today 7 XXIV

31 Library Resources and Technical Services 6 XXV

32 Special Libraries 6 XXV

33 Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly 6 XXV

34 Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems 6 XXV

35 Knowledge Organization 5 XXVI

36 Serials Libraries 5 XXVI

7. CONCLUSION

After above observations, it may be concluded that the study is based on the analysis of articles and analysis of citations. The study reveals that the journal published the highest number of articles in the

year 1997and majority of the articles contain references. The maximum number of journal citations has been contributed by single author. The journal has published an average of 15 articles per year. In

this study, the maximum number of contributors are from single authors with 50.00%, which is followed by two authors with 41.8% and three authors with 7.41% and four authors with 0.74%.

The study shows that the most of the contributions are from India with 98.89%, while foreign contribution is very less. The majority of contributions appeared under Computer Application

77(28.52%). This study also reveals that Dr. S. Humayoon Kabir occupies the top rank by contributing the highest number of articles, 10 and then Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha occupies the

second rank by contributing 7 articles. The majority of the articles (44.81%) have the length of 6-10 pages. Most of the contributors preferred journals as the source of information providing the highest

number of citations (59.01%). Annals of Library and Information Studies is the most cited and top-ranking journal with 106 citations. DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology occupies the second rank with 65 citations.

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