Authorship Characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan 1994-2003: A Bibliometric Study

Tiew, Wai Sin Authorship Characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan 1994-2003: A Bibliometric Study. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 2006, vol. 11, n. 1, pp. 65-75. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This bibliometric study attempts to explore the authorship characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan, one of the earliest library and information science (LIS) periodicals published by the National Library of Malaysia (PNM – Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia) since 1977. A total of 148 articles published in 20 issues of Sekitar Perpustakaan covering the period 1994-2003 were analyzed. Author characteristics such as name, gender, status, institutional affiliation, language preference of articles and authorship of articles were obtained, studied and analyzed. The findings reveals single-authored articles far outnumbered multi-authored articles at 79%; female contributors (65.74% or 71 authors) predominates male contributors (34.26% or 37 authors); middle-level professionals were the largest contributors of articles (59.3%); 83 (56%) of the articles published were in Bahasa Melayu, the national language, while 65 (44%) articles were in English; the top ranked contributor is Ding Choo Ming, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of the Malay World & Civilization, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia with nine contributions; and the most prolific institution is PNM with 41 contributing authors.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Authorship Pattern, Sekitar Perpustakaan; National Library of Malaysia; Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia; Library and Information Science Periodicals; Bibliometric
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user:	W. S. Tiew
Date deposited:	01 Mar 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:06
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9037

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