Library and Information Science Papers in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

In this article, we present a bibliometric study of 908 Library and Information science papers published from 1989 to 2016 and indexed in Web of Science analysed on Library and information science title only selected from the web of science core collection citation indexes analyze the quantity of these publications according to Year-wise, document types, languages, research areas, countries, & source titles. In total, there are ten distinct document types with the most frequent ones being “Article Paper” (over 62%). Web of Science is almost exclusively focused on sources published in English reach above 89%. “Information Science Library science” is the most prolific topic with nearly 96% of papers Published in the research area. The USA with 45% of Library and information science papers published. As far as the publication sources are concerned the most papers appeared in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.