Authors: M R Davarpanah S Aslekia
Publish Date: 2008/07/24
Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-39
Abstract
This paper presents a quantitative study of productivity characteristics and various aspects of global publication in the field of library and information science LIS A total of 894 contributions published in 56 LIS journals indexed in SSCI during the years of 20002004 were analyzed A total of 1361 authors had contributed publications during the five years The overwhelming majority 8993 of them wrote one paper The average number of authors per paper is 152 All the studied papers were published in English The sum of research output of the authors form USA and UK reaches 70 of the total productivity Most papers received few citations Each article received on an average 16 citations and the LIS researchers cite mostly latest articles About 48 of citing authors had tendency of selfcitation The productive authors their contribution and authorship position are listed to indicate their productivity and degree of involvement in their research publications
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