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International Journal of Digital Library Services

IJODLS | Geetanjali Research Publication 103

Vol. 6, April - June 2016, Issue - 2 www.ijodls.in

ISSN:2250-1142 (Online), ISSN 2349-302X (Print)

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ONLINE

INFORMATION REVIEW JOURNAL

Padme Satish L. (NET) Assistant Librarian, University Library

Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MH)

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Khaparde Vaishali (PhD) Professor& Head

Dept. of Library and Information Science, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada

University, Aurangabad (MH)

E-mail:[email protected]

Abstract

The present study Online Information Review: Bibliometric Analysis has

been undertaken for the period of five years (2010 to 2014). In the present

study an attempt has been made to analyze the year wise distribution of

articles, find out the issue wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern of

Journal articles, year wise degree of collaboration, institute-wise distribution

of papers, geographical distribution of articles author also ranking of leading

contributors in the articles

Keywords: Bibliometric Analysis, Authorship Pattern, Degree of

Collaboration, Journal, Online Information Review

1.0. Introduction:

In present study researcher choose the India‘s most leading journal in the subject of

Library and Information science and it is a branch of Social Sciences that studies the

study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical,

informational, and reference services. The Quantitative study of science has been done by

Bibliometric analysis. The major indicator of scientific progress is the distribution of

publication over the period, country wise contribution, collaboration pattern among the

scientists, national and international collaborations etc. (Vijayalaxmi & Ambuja, 2013)

In Library and Information Science, the Bibliometric study is one of the important thrust

areas to do Research. (Manivannan & Sanjeevi, 2012) Researchers use Bibliometric

methods of evaluation to determine the influence of a single author or to describe the

relationship between two or more authors or works. Bibliometric Analysis is the

quantitative description of literature and helps in the measurement of the pattern of all

form of recorded information and their procedures hence researcher choose the present

study.





1.1. About the Journal:

Online Information Review is an international, double blind peer-reviewed, ISI-listed

journal devoted to research in the broad field of online information in academic,

government, corporate, scientific and commercial contexts It includes full length papers,

short notes, rapid communications and short reviews on Contemporary research.

Within this broad framework the journal seeks to provide a forum for experts from a

range of information-related disciplines, including information science, information

technology, information management, knowledge management and related social

sciences. It also includes regular viewpoint pieces, currently focusing on metrics for

research evaluation and on social media research

1.2. Bibliometric Analysis:

Bibliometrics is the application of statistical and mathematical methods to books and

other communication (Pritchard, 1969). Bibliometrics is type of research method used in

Library and Information sciences. It is an emerging area of research in the LIS field. The

quantitative analysis and statistics to describe patterns of publication with within a given

field of body of literature are utilized. (George, 2012) Bibliometric term introduced by

Alan Pritchard in 1969 (Jena, 2006)

2. Review of Literature:

The Review of related literature is a significant and primary component in any research

investigations. It was found that the studies on Bibliometrics in India have covered

several studies on journals,Shelke,S.M & Khaparde V.S. Jena, K. L. (2006); George, K.

(2012); Manivannan, G., & Sanjeevi, K.(2012); Thanuskodi (2012); Gopalakrishnan, S.

& Ashok Kumar, L. (2013); Kavitha, T. (2013); Vijayalaxmi, S., & Ambuja, R. (2013)

.However no studies on the Bibliometric Analysis of Online Information Review (2010-

2014) have been covered, hence present research has been done

3. Objectives:

The present study has been undertaken with the objective of analyzing the following

aspects:

1) Year wise distribution of articles;

2) Issue wise distribution of articles;

3) Authorship pattern of Journal articles;

4) Year wise degree of collaboration;

5) Institute-wise distribution of papers;

6) Type of Affiliation of contributing institutions;

7) Geographical distribution of articles;

8) Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations

9) Ranking of leading contributors





4. Methodology

It is a vast collection of Journals and Research Publications, providing all the required

bibliographical data such as name of the author(s), title, and source of documents, year of

publication, volume of publication, issue number, and article type were collected and is

recorded on a MS excel sheet with pre-designed columns. The data so collected were

tabulated and analyzed in order to obtain results in respect of the stated objectives.

5. Scope and limitation of the study:

In Present research 5 volumes containing 31 issues appended to 246 articles of the Online

Information Review during the year 2010-2014 have been taken up for the study

6. Analysis:

Researcher analyze all the details of Online Information Review, such as issue numbers,

name of authors, address of authors, year of publication, Pagination, institutional

affiliation etc. of all articles published from 2010 to 2014 were recorded for the following

analysis

6.1. Year wise Distribution of Articles:

Table No.01 .Year wise Distribution of Articles

2010

21%

2011

20%2012

20%

2013

18%

2014

21%

Yearwise Distribution of Articles

Figure 1.Year Wise Distribution of Article

Years Vol. No No. of Issues No. of Article contributed Percentage%

2010 34 6 51 20.73

2011 35 6 49 19.92

2012 36 6 49 19.92

2013 37 6 46 18.70

2014 38 7 51 20.73

Total 31 246 100





In ―The Online Information Review‖ total no of 246 research papers published during the

period of study i.e. from 2010 to 2014. The journal on an average has published 49

research papers per year. The above table shows that the maximum numbers of articles

were published in the year 2010 & 2014 with 51 articles and minimum in the year 2013

with 46 articles. The number of research publications of The Online Information Review

for the period 2010-2014 has been given year wise in table-1.

6.2. Issue wise Distribution of Articles:

Table No. 2: Issue wise Distribution of Articles Vol.

No.

Year Issue No. Total

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

34 2010 11 8 8 8 8 8 0 51

35 2011 8 8 8 9 8 8 0 49

36 2012 8 9 8 8 8 8 0 49

37 2013 8 9 7 8 8 6 0 46

38 2014 8 8 7 7 6 7 8 51

Total 43 42 38 40 38 37 8 246

The table no. 2 reveals (Issue-wise) distribution of articles. In all five years on an average

most of the article published in first issue of the journal in the month of January-February

in the year 2014 highest no. of journals issues published i.e.07

6.3. Authorship pattern: Table No. 3. Authorship Pattern

Years No. of Authors Total Articles

1 2 3 4 5 6 &

More

2010 18 14 10 5 3 1 51

2011 12 17 15 2 2 1 49

2012 17 12 15 4 1 0 49

2013 8 18 14 4 1 1 46

2014 6 14 17 13 0 1 51

Total 61 75 71 28 7 4 246

Percentage 24.80 30.49 28.86 11.38 2.84 1.63 100

Figure No 2. Authorship Pattern

24.8

30.49 28.86

11.38

2.84 1.60

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

One Two Three Four Five Six &

More

Per

cen

tage

of

Fiv

e Y

ears

No. of Authors

Authorship Pattern





Multiauthorship provides different measures of collaboration in the subject. Table no. 3

reveals the authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study.

Maximum numbers of articles were contributed by two authors75 (30.49%). This is

followed by three authors with 71 (28.86%) articles; one authors contributed 61 articles

(24.80 %) of the total articles. four authors contributed 28 articles (11.38%), five authors

contributed 7 articles (2.84%) out of total articles and more than five authors contributed

4 articles (1.63%)

6.4. Degree of Collaboration in The Online Information Review

The formula given by K. Subramanian is useful for determining the degree of

collaboration in quantitative terms. The study followed the same formula which is

mathematically put as

NM

C = --------

NM+NS

Where C = Degree of Collaboration

NM = Number of Multi authored Papers

NS = Number of Single authored Papers

In the Present Study:

NM =185

NS = 61

246

C= ------- = 0.75

185+61

Thus the degree of collaboration (C) during the overall 05 years (2010-2014) is 0.75





6.4.1. Year wise Degree of Collaboration

Table 4: Year wise Degree of Collaboration: Year Single

Author (NS)

Multi

Author(NM)

Total

NM+NS

Degree of

Collaboration

2010 18 33 51 0.65

2011 12 37 49 0.76

2012 17 32 49 0.65

2013 8 38 46 0.83

2014 6 45 51 0.88

Total 61 185 246 0.75 (Mean)

050

2010 2013

181217 8 633373238 45Yearwise Degree …

Single Authored… Figure No. 3.Year wise Degree of Collaboration:

Table no.4 shows that since 2010 multi authored paper trend increased year by year its

lowest 33 in the year 2010 and highly increased in the year 2014 was 45 and single

authored paper trend decreased continuously year by year its highest in the year 2010 was

18 and decreased highly in the year 2014 up to 6

6.5. Type of Affiliation of contributing institutions

TableNo.5. Top five institutions given highly contribution

For paper Publication in Online information review Name of Institution No.of papers

published

Rank Percentage

%

Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University,

Ramat Gan, Israel & Wee Kim Wee School of Communication

and Information, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore

13 1 5.28

Department of Information Management, National Chung

Cheng University, Chiayi,Taiwan

12 2 4.87

Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

10 3 4.06

School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

9 4 3.65

Department of Marketing and Market Research, Granada

University (Spain), Granada Spain & School of Health

Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, Macao

8 5 3.25

Table no.9.reveals that during the period of study (2010-2014) it is found that Department

of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel & Wee Kim Wee School





of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is on

first rank with 13(5.28) contributions in the total 246 articles, it is followed by

Department of Information Management, National Chung Cheng University,

Chiayi,Taiwan got Second rank with 12(4.87) contributions, and Department of

Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,

Taipei, Taiwan is on third rank with 10(4.06) contributions in the articles

6.6. Geographical Distribution of Contributors of articles

Table No.6.Geographical Distribution of Contributors of articles Sr.No Country Year wise No. of Contributors Total

Contributors

Percentage

% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

1 Argentina 0 0 0 0 05 05 0.821018

2 Australia 0 04 01 0 0 05 0.821018

3 Austria 0 0 0 04 0 04 0.656814

4 Brazil 0 0 0 0 03 03 0.492611

5 Canada 03 0 02 03 03 11 1.80624

6 China 05 19 12 11 07 54 8.866995

7 Colombia 0 0 0 0 01 01 0.164204

8 Cyprus 0 0 0 0 01 01 0.164204

9 Denmark 02 0 0 0 0 02 0.328407

10 Egypt 01 0 0 0 0 01 0.164204

11 Finland 03 02 0 0 0 05 0.821018

12 Germany 02 01 0 03 04 10 1.642036

13 Hong Kong 0 02 0 07 0 09 1.477833

14 India 02 0 0 03 0 05 0.821018

15 Iran 04 03 01 01 03 12 1.970443

16 Ireland 01 0 0 0 0 01 0.164204

17 Israel 08 01 04 01 05 19 3.119869

18 Italy 0 0 0 03 0 03 0.492611

19 Jordan 0 0 0 02 0 02 0.328407

20 Korea 10 09 0 19 06 44 7.224959

21 Macao 0 0 0 0 08 08 1.313629

22 Malaysia 0 0 0 0 03 03 0.492611

23 Mexico 0 0 0 0 01 01 0.164204

24 Netherland 03 0 01 0 0 04 0.656814

25 Newzealand 01 01 06 0 0 08 1.313629

26 Norway 01 0 0 0 01 02 0.328407

27 Peru 0 01 0 0 0 01 0.164204

28 Portugal 0 02 01 0 01 04 0.656814

29 Saudi Arabia 0 0 0 0 01 01 0.164204

30 Serbia 0 0 03 0 0 03 0.492611

31 Singapore 03 06 11 02 05 27 4.433498

32 Slovak Republic 01 0 0 0 05 06 0.985222

33 South Africa 0 0 0 02 0 02 0.328407

34 Spain 16 21 22 12 39 110 18.0624

35 Sweden 02 0 0 0 0 02 0.328407

36 Switzerland 0 01 0 0 01 02 0.328407

37 Taiwan 26 30 22 23 30 131 21.51067





38 Thailand 0 0 0 11 0 11 1.80624

39 Turkey 05 0 0 0 0 05 0.821018

40 United Kingdom 03 05 03 0 01 12 1.970443

41 USA 15 20 16 09 09 69 11.33005

Total 117 128 105 116 143 609 100

During the period of study total 609 researchers contributed in the articles from 41

countries; Out of total 41 countries nearly 408 (67%) of the outputs were provided by five

countries such as Taiwan, Spain, USA, China and Korea. Remaining 37 countries

provided 33 % of the total contributions in the articles. Taiwan stands first place with the

(22%) contributions in the articles. It is followed by Spain on second place (18%) and

USA on third place with (11%) contributions in the articles

Figure No. 4. Geographical Distribution of Contributors of articles

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130

ArgentinaAustralia

AustriaBrazil

CanadaChina

ColombiaCyprus

DenmarkEgypt

FinlandGermany

Hong KongIndiaIran

IrelandIsrael

ItalyJordanKoreaMacao

MalaysiaMexico

NetherlandNewzealand

NorwayPeru

PortugalSaudi Arabia

SerbiaSingapore

SlovakSouth Africa

SpainSweden

SwitzerlandTaiwan

ThailandTurkeyUnited

USA

Co

un

trie

s

Geographical Distribution of Contributors of articles

Total Contributers





6.7. Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations:

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a

journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to

articles published by the same journal.

Sr. no year Self Cites Total cites Percentage

1 2010 34 330 10.30 2 2011 56 369 15.18 3 2012 47 300 15.67 4 2013 38 299 12.71 5 2014 34 273 12.45

Total 209 1571 13.30 (Mean)

During the period of study total 1571 citations received from journal‘s published

documents in which total no of 209 citations received from journal's self-citations

received by a journal's published documents during the period of study i.e. 13.30% of all

citations received during 2010-2014. in the year 2012 highest no of self citation received

out of total citations 300(15.67)

Figure No. 4. Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations

citation pattern

34 343847

56

369

330

273

299300

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

years

cit

ati

on

s

Se lf Cites

Total cites





6.8. Top Three Most Productive Authors:

Table No. 9.Top Three Most Productive Authors:

Sr.No. Name of Author Country No. of

Publications

Rank

1 Peter Jacso University of Hawaii at Manoa,

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

21 01

2 Maayan

Zhitomirsky-

Geffet

Department of Information

Science, Bar-Ilan University,

Ramat Gan, Israel

05 02

3 i)Hsi-Peng Lu

ii) Chih-Fong

Tsai


Management, National Taiwan

University of Science and

Technology, Taipei, Taiwan


Management, National Central

University, Jhongli, Taiwan, ROC,

04 03

Table no.9.reveals that during the period of study (2010-2014) it is found that Peter Jacso

from USA on first rank with 21 contributions in the total 246 articles, it is followed by

Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet from Israel got Second rank with 05 contributions, and Hsi-

Peng Lu & Chih-Fong Tsai from Taiwan is on third rank with 04 contributions in the

articles

7. Findings:

From the study the major finding are follows,

The Online Information Review published 246 research papers during the period of

study i.e. from 2010 to 2014. The journal on an average has published 49 research

papers per year.

In all five years on an average 8.60 most of the article published in first issue of the

journal in the month of January-February

The authorship pattern of the articles published during the period of study. Maximum

numbers of articles were contributed by two authors75 (30.49%).

The degree of collaboration (C) during the overall 05 years (2010-2014) is 0.75.

during the period of study (2010-2014) it is found that Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel & Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and

Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is on first rank with 13(5.28) contributions in the total 246 articles

During the period of study total 609 researchers contributed in the articles from 41

countries & Taiwan stands first place with the (22%) contributions in the articles

During the period of study (2010-2014) it is found that Authors from USA is highly

contributed their articles in present journal





Conclusions:

Online Information Review is the reputed journal in the field of Computer Science

Applications, Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences 2015 Impact

Factor: 1.152. Analysis of contributions of 5 volumes of the journals shows that it covers

contributions related to nearly all aspect of Computer Science Applications, Information

Systems, Library and Information Sciences. The journal is not only popular among India

but also popular among various more than 40 countries of the world. Journal contain pure

primary research articles

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