Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Indian Journal Annals of Library and Information Studies with Comparative to Indian and Worldwide Journals: A Study

ABSTRACT

This study conducted the bibliometric analysis of the journal “ALIS” and its comparison to other journals worldwide and in India. The data were sourced from the Scopus database with the help of advanced searching from 2018 to 2021, in which 108 papers were received for the study. This study studies the authorship pattern and the extent of collaboration. Total citations received, most prolific author and country's contribution, highest cited paper, and year-wise productivity of the journal The results reveal that India is the highest contributing country, i.e., from 2018 to 2021. Sri Lanka is the second-leading contributing country, and Iran is in third place. The extent of collaboration is 0.71 between authors. Four authors have published four articles each during this tenure. If we count the year-wise productivity of the journal, 2021 is the leading year both in terms of publication and the number of citations received. It found that in 2020, the journal's rank will be 110, which will continue increasing. It also reveals the top 10 ranking in the database, in which the International Journal of Information Management scored the first rank.

KEYWORDS:

• Bibliometric analysis
• ALIS
• authorship pattern
• extent of collaboration

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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