Publication Trends in Library Herald and College Libraries

a bibliometric study during 2011-2020

Abstract

The present bibliometric study is based on the publication characteristics and trend of two renowned Indian Library Information Science (LIS) journals viz. Library Herald (LH) and College Libraries (CL) during 2011 to 2020. The published 267 articles in LH and 166 articles published in CL during this study periods have been scanned to collect the bibliographical details considering the factors such as year wise growth, authorship, collaboration, popular authors, prolific institutions, geographical distribution, length and keywords. The study finds that the average authors per paper in LH were higher in comparison to the CL. The study also finds that in LH, total 350 authors contributed articles, of which maximum 289 authors shared 1 paper each followed by 39 authors having 2 papers each. It has been found that out of 12 states, the 212 authors from West Bengal contributed majority of 159 articles followed by Delhi with 85 articles and Maharashtra with 27 articles. The study provides an insight in the publication pattern of two official organs of two library associations in India. No extensive work has been done on this interesting topic earlier. The findings will be helpful for the LIS professionals as well as associations in identifying the publication trend of two potential journals that have long traditional history of scholarly publications in this field.