Mapping of iConference Proceeding 2016 of iSchool

a bibliometric study

Abstract

iConference proceeding 2016 has been published as Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) 2016 by iSchool organisation which is the consortium of more than 60 iSchools around the globe. The main focus of ischool stresses on the innovative ideas related to various facets of information science and from 2005 onwards it organizes iConference each and every year all around the globe with new innovative theme. In this respect the paper tries to analyze bibliometrically iConference Proceeding,
2016 which has been published by iSchool organization. The paper examines the authorship pattern of the contribution of the conference proceeding and discusses the page wise distribution of contribution per papers and also presents author's productivity count of the contribution on the basis of international level and also observed the degree of collaboration. At the time of data mining
of the aforesaid iConference Proceeding 2016, 161 papers were studied from it. On the basis of these 161 papers, it is found that 95 posters are one of the major contributions of the iConference Proceeding but researchers from the different countries around the world have contributed their articles to this iconference Proceeding in 2016.