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Authorship Pattern and Authorship Productivity in Library and Information Science Literature


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1 Assistant Librarian, Knowledge Resource Centre, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, 444602, India
2 Library Assistant, Knowledge Resource Centre, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, 444602, India
3 Librarian, Prof. Ram Meghe College of Management, Amravati, 444701, India

The paper studies the authorship pattern and authorship productivity based on 2216 documents published in Library and Information Science from 1989 to 2023. The data was retrieved from the Web of Science and analyzed through the biblioshiny web app and MS Excel. The average number of citations for the overall research output was 12.49. The highest AGR (74.29) was observed in 1992 but fluctuated throughout the study period. The single authorship pattern dominated the rest of the authorship pattern. DC is registered as 0.50, while CC and MCC were calculated at 0.68 and 0.27, respectively. Hjorland B is the most prolific author who maintained his first position regarding highly published papers, fractionalized authorship, h-index, and g-index. Marshall, J. G. and Rathbun-Grubb, S. had the highest total link strength in the co-authorship network table. Authorship distribution in LIS literature did not satisfy Lotka’s Law of Scientific Productivity.

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Authorship Pattern, Authorship Productivity, Library and Information Science Literature, Average Growth Rate, Collaboration Indicators, Co-authorship Network, Lotka’s Inverse Square Law of Scientific Productivity
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Vishal Dattatray Bapte
Assistant Librarian, Knowledge Resource Centre, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, 444602, India
Jyoti S. Gedam
Library Assistant, Knowledge Resource Centre, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, 444602, India
Supriya Bejalwar
Librarian, Prof. Ram Meghe College of Management, Amravati, 444701, India

Abstract


The paper studies the authorship pattern and authorship productivity based on 2216 documents published in Library and Information Science from 1989 to 2023. The data was retrieved from the Web of Science and analyzed through the biblioshiny web app and MS Excel. The average number of citations for the overall research output was 12.49. The highest AGR (74.29) was observed in 1992 but fluctuated throughout the study period. The single authorship pattern dominated the rest of the authorship pattern. DC is registered as 0.50, while CC and MCC were calculated at 0.68 and 0.27, respectively. Hjorland B is the most prolific author who maintained his first position regarding highly published papers, fractionalized authorship, h-index, and g-index. Marshall, J. G. and Rathbun-Grubb, S. had the highest total link strength in the co-authorship network table. Authorship distribution in LIS literature did not satisfy Lotka’s Law of Scientific Productivity.

Keywords


Authorship Pattern, Authorship Productivity, Library and Information Science Literature, Average Growth Rate, Collaboration Indicators, Co-authorship Network, Lotka’s Inverse Square Law of Scientific Productivity