AN EVALUATIVE STUDY OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH DURING 1987 -2020 BASED ON AUTHORSHIP AND COCITATION ANALYSIS

Abstract

This analysis intends to investigate research collaborations and authorship patterns in Library & Information Science Research journals from 1987 to 2020. The data was collected from the Scopus database. MS-Excel, VOS Viewer, and R. Programming ware used for tabulation analysis and visualized data. In this paper, the researchers have analyzed the degree of collaboration, author productivity, collaboration coefficient, and research trends. The result shows that the maximum number of articles published in 2015 is 45 (8.80%) and a large number of publications are single-authored, and the average degree of collaboration is 0.56. Keywords - Activity Index, Authorship Pattern, Co-Authorship Index, Collaboration Coefficient, Collaboration Index, Degree of Collaboration, Doubling Time, Key Word Analysis Library and Information Science Research, Relative Growth Rate,