CONTRIBUTIONS OF NACLIN PROCEEDINGS: A CITATION ANALYSIS

Wednesday, April 19, 2023Mr. M .Janakiramaiah &

Dr.M.Doraswamy1

M. JANAKIRAMAIAHLibrarian & Ph.D Research Scholar (Part time)

Mohammadiya Institute of Management Arrempula, Khammam -507 163, A.P.

E-mail: mjrkmm@gmail.com

Dr. M. DORASWAMYUniversity Librarian I/c

Central Library(Bishop Caldwell E-resources Centre)

DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITYSrininvasavanam, KUPPAM – 517425. A.P.

E-mail: doraswamy_msd@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTIONCitation analysis, which is one of the areas of biliometrics, can be used for identifying the core journals and for knowing the characteristic features of the discipline such as authorship pattern, scatter of literature in different bibliographic forms and in different subjects, etc. Gross and Gross (1927) used for the first time this citation analysis as a tool for identifying the core journals in a subject based on counting the citations given at the end of the each article from a group of primary journals. After wards, a number of such studies were carried out on citations in dissertations/theses, books, primary and reviewing journals. Such studies can help in selection of documents saving millions of rupees of the organizations. It helps in planning and organization of resource sharing, networking and consortia. The institutions may eliminate rarely cited titles form their subscription lists and also weed out unused material to save costly stocking space and reduce maintenance cost.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

• To identify the different types of bibliographic forms;• To examine the authorship pattern of contributions;• To examine the authorship pattern of books cited;• To examine the domain wise use of websites;• To identify the core journals; and • To prepare ranking list of cited journals

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SCOPE OF THE STUDY

• The NACLIN is the official convention of Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi. It is well known network in India in the field of Library and Information Science. It is a annual convention of DELNET and it has now completed 13 conventions. The present investigation is mainly intended to describe the characteristic features of Library and Information Science literature based on the analysis of 1757 citations, which have been cited in the 188 contributions of National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN) proceedings organized by Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi during the years 2001-2005 at different places.

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METHODOLOGY

• There are 1757 citations in these conference proceedings. All these citations were noted down such as books, journals, conference proceedings, websites, reports, theses/dissertations on slips which are cited in the proceedings. They are analyzed according to the objectives.

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Results and analysis: Bibliographic forms

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Distribution of citations in different bibliographic forms

Bibliographic formsNo. of citations Percentage

Books 337 19.18

Journals 399 22.71

Seminars/Conference Proceedings etc

152 8.65

Websites 775 44.11

Reports 48 2.73

Thesis/dissertations 9 0.51

Unidentified 37 2.11

Total 1757 100.00This study confirms the importance of web citations. One of the most compelling results of thisstudy is that web citations are relatively more popular in conference proceedings. Websitesappear to be the most preferred source of information for research scholars in Library andInformation Sciences. Since they contributed the highest number of citations (44.11% of totalcitations).Journals also appear to be the most preferred source of information for research scholars inLibrary and Information Sciences, since they also contributed the second highest number ofcitations (19.18% of total citations).

AVERAGE NUMBER OF CITATIONS

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Average number of citations per contribution

No. of contributions

Total No. of citations

Average

188 1751 9.35

The average number of citations per contribution is 9.35

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AUTHORSHIP PATTERN OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Distribution of contributions according to number of authors

No. of authorsNo. of contributions Percentage

One 107 56.91

Two 54 28.72

Three 21 11.17

More than three 6 3.19

Total 188 100.00

The analysis of authorship pattern in NACLIN conferenceproceedings reveals that out of the 188 contributions, 107(56.91%) have been contributed by single authors, 54(28.72%) by two authors, 21 (11.17%) by three authors,and the remaining 6 (3.19%) by more than three authors.

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Different website domains

Distribution of citations according to website domain

Website DomainNo. of citations Percentage

.org 223 28.77

.edu 146 18.84

.com 145 18.71

.ac 72 9.29

.in 62 8.00

No URL 127 16.39

TOTAL 775 100.00

The analysis of the website domains in NACLIN proceedings reveals that 28.77 percent of the citations are contributed mainly in

organizational websites compared to other websites followed by .edu (18.84%), .com (18.71%), .ac (9.29%), .in (8%), and 16.39 percent of

websites are no URL.

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AUTHORSHIP PATTERN OF BOOKS

No. of authors No. of citations Percentage

One 234 69.44

Two 71 21.07

Three 14 4.15

More than three 18 5.34

Total 337 100.00

The analysis of the authorship pattern of citations in books in five conference volumes according to the number of authors. It indicates

that out of 337 citations, 234 (69.44%) have been contributed by single authors, 71 (21.07%) by two authors, 18 (5.34%) by more than

three authors, and 14 (4.15%) by three authors

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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The analysis of the state wise distributions of contributions in five NACLIN proceedings reveals

that Out of 188 contributions, the highest number i.e. 32 (17.02%) are contributed from New Delhi, is

followed by 30 (15.96%) are from Maharashtra, 22 (11.70%) are from Tamil Nadu, 21 (11.17%) are

from Andhra Pradesh, 20 (10.64%) are from Karnataka etc.

RANK LIST OF CITED JOURNALS

1. The rank list of journals based on the analysis of citations reveals that the NACLIN conference proceedings has scattered in 399 different journals. The periodical “University News” gets first rank for being cited more number of times, is followed by “Library Trends”, “Journal of Academic Librarianship”, “Journal of Documentation”, and “Online Information Review” are gets 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th ranks respectively.

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