International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science

Vol. 3(8), pp. 226–235, August, 2015. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2015.038

Full Length Research

The Electronic Library Journal: A bibliometric study (2010 to 2014)

¹Yasinullah Shafiullah, ²Prof. Vaishali Khaparde and ³Fawaz Abdullah Alhamdi

¹Ph.D. Research Student, Dept .of Library & Information Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. (MS), India. Email: ysadat1@gmail.com

²Professor and Head, Dept .of Library & Information Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada, University, Aurangabad. (MS), India. Email: khapardeVaishali@gmail.com

³Ph.D. Research Student, Dept .of Library & Information Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. (MS), India. Email: fawazalhamdilibrarian@gmail.com

Accepted 31 August 2015

The present paper deals with a bibliometric study of five volumes which contained 30 issues and a total number of 259 articles appending 7,397 citations published during the year 2010 to 2014 in the “Electronic Library Journal”. The bibliographic details with regard to each article such as types of articles, number of articles in each issue, number of citations in each article, authorship patterns, publication date and the name of the journals were collected and taken into consideration for studying and analyzing. Findings showed that the highest numbers of articles (57) were published in the year 2010 and the articles published in 2014 contain the highest number of citations (1,807), around 78 percent of contributions were categorized as research studies followed by case study. The average length of articles published in The Electronic Library is 15.5 pages per article. the majority of authors cited journals (4,516 citations; 61.1%) followed by web resources (1,170 citations; 15.8%). Also the single authors (43.883 percent) have made major contribution followed by joint authors (26.895 percent), and “The Electronic Library” which is the source journal leads the table with a record number of 409 citation with 9.063 % followed Library Hi Tech (119 citations).

Key words: Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis; Electronic Library Journal.

 

Cite This Article As: Shafiullah Y, Khaparde V, Alhamdi FA (2015). The Electronic Library Journal: A bibliometric study (2010 to 2014). Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 3(8): 226-235.

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