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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW JOURNAL

Padme Satish L. (NET)

Assistant Librarian, University Library Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MH)

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Dr. Khaparde Vaishali (PhD) Professor& Head

Dept. of Library and Information Science, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MH)

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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 choosLibrary 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.

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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

201021%

201120%2012

20%

201318%

201421%

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






The Online Information Review 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

24.830.49 28.86

11.38

2.84 1.605

101520253035

One Two Three Four Five Six & More

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)

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

AustriaBraz il

CanadaChina

ColombiaCyprus

DenmarkEgypt

FinlandGermany

Hong KongIndiaIran

Ire landIsrae l

ItalyJordanKoreaMacao

MalaysiaMexico

NetherlandNewzealand

NorwayPeru

PortugalSaudi Arabia

SerbiaSingapore

SlovakSouth Africa

SpainSweden

SwitzerlandTaiwan

Thai landTurkeyUnited

USA

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 jou 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

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369

330

273299300

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

years

Self CitesTotal 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

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

Department of Information 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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