LIBRARY HERALD JOURNAL: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY
Keywords:
Bibliometrics, Bibliography, Authorship pattern, Source of Information, Geographical distribution, Citation, Websites, DissertationsAbstract
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the journal titled “Library Herald” for the period between 2006 to 2010. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise distribution of articles, average number of references per articles, forms of documents cited, year wise distribution of cited journals etc. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. The result showed that out of 138 articles single author contributed 72 (52.17%) articles while the rest 66 (47.83%) articles were contributed by joint authors. Study reveals that most of the contributions are from India with 89.85 % and the rest 10.15 % only from foreign sources.
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