THE ‘JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY’ (JASIST): A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Kuri, Ramesh and Savanur, Kiran . THE ‘JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY’ (JASIST): A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS., 2018 In: Library Practices in Digital Era. B S Publications Hyderabad, pp. 270-281. [Book chapter]

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This paper presents a quantitative study of source items published in JASIST Journal. It mainly focuses on growth of source items; the citation and cited references cited; domain wise distribution of source items; authorship and collaborative pattern; prominent authors based on h-index; geographical distribution; and assessment of successful papers based on specific indicator. A total of 2224 source items published in 255 issues of 12 volumes of JASIST journal. There is an upward steady growth in number of source items, times cited and cited references during 2001-2012. Information Technology and Library technology; Information source support channels; Users literacy and reading; Information treatment and Information services are the macro and micro domain fields of Information Science and Technology. Article; Book Review; Editorial Material; Letter; Review; article proceeding papers are the major document type of the JASIST publication. Most source items i.e. 971; 610; and 360 of source papers respectively have come with single, second and third authorship pattern. The most number of papers have contributed from USA (996); UK (226) and Canada (124). The country wise source items impact factor, h-index have been measured based on local citations, USA (14 h-index); UK (11 h-index) and Canada and Netherland each having 8 h-index. There are prominent authors, have been identified based on the higher value of h-index. According to this Leydesdorff L and Spink A both were considered top rank with having 8 h-index each. This paper also depicts successful papers measured by its number of citations i.e. time cited.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: Scientometrics, JASIST, Analysis, Authorship Pattern, Source of information, Geographical distribution, Citation
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr Ramesh Kuri
Date deposited: 02 Nov 2019 09:34
Last modified: 02 Nov 2019 09:34
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39171

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