1. INTRODUCTION:

‘Indian journal of Information Sources and Services’ is an Indian, peer-reviewed journal, devoted to multidisciplinary library and information science journal, published by the research publication, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a half-yearly journal published since 2011 as a published every year in January-June and July-December. This study highlights the various article of this journal during 2013-2017.

2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY:

The Scope of the present study is Indian journal of Information Sources and Services. It published Original articles in the field of multidisciplinary library and information science journal. The study covers 10 issues from 3-7 Vol. during the years 2013-2017. It is found that 90 research papers were published during the study period.

3. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE:

Previously several studies by different authors have been analyzing the contribution of Library and Information Science journals.

“Suriya (2010) analyzed the study mostly the publication performance of the 53 countries both from the developing and developed world is attempted to observe the share of various continents, countries and institutions in the production of publications in the subject sociology.”[1].

“Manivannan and Sanjeevi (2011) studied the research publications in the field of Medical Research are increasing year by year. In this paper the authors have studied bibliometrics analysis of the Indian Journal of Medical Research [IJMR] for the period of five years between 2007 and 2011.”[2].

“Shonkar and Shankarappa (2016) results of a study are to analysis the bibliometric analysis of articles published during the period of 2009- 2015 by University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India was undertaken, to reveal the year wise distribution of articles, citations, types of publications, prolific authors, preferred journals, authorship pattern and degree of collaboration.” [3].

“Sonkar and other (2017) had done a study of Points the study covers the total numbers of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise classification of the contributions, degree of collaboration, subject wise distribution of articles, country wise classification, distribution of citations by volume, institute wise distribution of articles, length of the articles, author wise citations in the articles, compositions of citations etc. The study founded that each year the journal has distinguished of papers except the year 2010, In the context of authorship pattern the result shows that two-authored papers are in highest with 37% (77 papers) in the whole period (2005-2014), Average rate of degree of collaboration is 2.8, The journal information technology and people is enriched with the scholarly contribution of 25.6% countries across the world among these 25.6% countries like USA, UK, Australia, Finland, Canada, etc, The result shows that documentary materials are cited in maximum number (3881, [31%]) than non-documentary materials (8437[68%]) during the period of 2006 to 2015.” [4].

4. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY:

This bibliometrics is the application of statistical and mathematical methods. A total of 3-7 volumes and 10 issues were selected for the study. It is based on Statistical and mathematical analysis with differentt aspect of books and articles such as country-wise distribution, cited documents, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration. etc. Data have been also calculated and represented in varies Tables and Graph.

5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

The objective of this study are :

· To make an analysis of articles published in Indian journal of Information Sources and Services 2013 to 2017.

· To identify the distribution of articles.

· To find out the authorship patterns.

· To find out the references distribution.

· To study the Institution wise research contributions.

· To find out the country-wise articles contributions.

· To study the single and multi authors of research contributions and

·To study the Degree of Collabration.

6. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION:

Table 1: Distribution of articles

S. No.	Year	Vol. and Issues		Articles	% of 90	Cumulative %
1	2013	3	1-2	18	20	20
2	2014	4	1-2	25	27.77	47.77
3	2015	5	1-2	14	15.55	63.32
4	2016	6	1-2	14	15.55	78.87
5	2017	7	1-2	19	21.11	99.98
Total				90	100

Table 1 Show that distribution of articles in the 2013 to 2017. The maximum 25 (27.77%) articles published in the year 2014. The minimum 14 (15.55%) articles published in the year 2015 and 2016. The Percentages range varies from 15.55% to 27.77 %.

Table 2: References distribution

Year	Vol. and Issues		References	Cumulative References	% of 1172	Cumulative %
2013	3	1-2	212	212	18.08	18.08
2014	4	1-2	326	538	27.81	45.89
2015	5	1-2	219	757	18.68	64.57
2016	6	1-2	162	919	13.82	78.39
2017	7	1-2	253	1172	21.58	99.97
Total			1172		100

Table 2 Reveals that maximum number of references 326 (27.81%) produced in 2014, followed by 253 (21.58%) references in 2017, 219(18.68%) references in 2015, 212(18.08%) references in 2013 and 162(13.82%) references in 2016.

Table 3: Country-wise articles contributions

S. No.	Name of countries	Number of research contributions	% of 90	Order of Rank
1	India	86	95.55	1
2	Nigeria	4	4.44	2
Total		90	100

Table 3 Indicates that country-wise articles contributions in volume 3-7 of source journal. Out of 90 article contributions the highest 86 (95.55%) has been contributed by Indian authors, followed by Nigeria with 04 (4.44%) research contributions.

Table 4: Page length of the articles contributions

Page length	Year					Total	% of 90
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
01-05	10	14	05	06	09	44	48.88
06-10	08	10	07	08	10	43	47.77
11-15	-	01	02	-	-	03	03.33
Total	18	25	14	14	19	90	100

Table 4 indicates details about page length of the articles contributions. Out of total 90 research articles, 44 (48.48%) articles have the length of one-five pages, 43 (47.77%) articles have the length of six-ten pages and only 3 (3.33%) articles have the length of eleven-fifteen pages.

Table 5: Institution wise research contributions

S. No.	Contributed by	Research contributions	% of 90
1	Academic Institution	86	95.55
2	Research Centers	03	03.33
3	Special Libraries	01	01.11
Total		90	100

Table 5 Show that Institution wise research contribution. The maximum 86 (95.55%) articles published in the Academic Institution and the minimum 01 (01.11%) articles published in the Special Libraries.

Table 6: Authorship Patterns

No. of Author	Year					Total	% of 90
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Single	03	04	06	02	04	19	21.11
Two	14	17	06	10	12	59	65.55
Three	01	03	02	02	03	11	12.22
Four	-	01	-	-	-	01	01.11
Total	18	25	14	14	19	90	100

Table 6 Reveals the contributions of authorship patterns of Indian journal of Information Sources and Services 2013 to 2017, among the 90 articles contributed, 59(65.55%) are two authors, 19 (21.11%) are single authors, 11 (12.22%) are three authors and 01 (01.11%) are four authors.

Table 7: Single and Multi Authors of research contributions

Vol.	Year	Single Author (Ns)		Multi Author (Nm)		Total
		No. of Articles	%	No. of Articles	%	Total
1	2013	03	15.78	15	21.12	18
2	2014	04	21.05	21	29.57	25
3	2015	06	31.57	08	11.26	14
4	2016	02	10.52	12	16.90	14
5	2017	04	21.05	15	21.12	19
Total		19 (Ns)	100	71 (Nm)	100	90

Table 7 Indicates the Single and Multi Author of research Contributions. Authored papers are in Indian journal of Information Sources and Services from 2013 to 2017. The contributions in the single author articles are 19 (21.11%) and 71 (78.88%) are multiple author articles, so highest contributions are multiple author articles.

Table 8: Degree of Collaboration

S. No.	Year	Degree of Collaboration
1	2013	0.83
2	2014	0.84
3	2015	0.57
4	2016	0.85
5	2017	0.78

Degree of Collaboration among authors in Indian journal of Information Sources and Services from 2013 to 2017 is presented in table 8.

Calculate in order to the degree of collaboration (DC) among the authors in Indian journal of Information Sources and Services journal, the formula given by “K. Subramanyam (1983) is used, the formula is as follows –

DC = Degree of Collaboration

Nm = Number of multi-authored Contributions

Ns = Number of single-authored Contributions

The value of DC = (Nm)/(Nm+Ns)”[5].

In the present study, here – Nm = 71; Ns = 19.

71/71+19 so that

71/90 = 0.788

Table 8 shows the degree of collaboration is high, i.e. 71 (0.788%) in terms of collective or multi-authored Collaboration and the individual or single-authored contributions is less towards the subject during the study period.

7. CONCLUSION:

This journal Indian journal of Information Sources and Services has a history of five years. In this period of time published 90 articles from 2013-2017. Table 1 Show that distribution of articles in the 2013 to 2017. The maximum 25 (27.77%) articles published in the year 2014. The minimum 14 (15.55%) articles published in the year 2015 and 2016. The Percentages range varies from 15.55% to 27.77 %. Table 2 Reveals that maximum number of references 326 (27.81%) produced in 2014, followed by 253 (21.58%) references in 2017, 219(18.68%) references in 2015, 212(18.08%) references in 2013 and 162(13.82%) references in 2016. Table 3 Indicates that country-wise articles contributions in volume 3-7 of source journal. Out of 90 article contributions the highest 86 (95.55%) has been contributed by Indian authors, followed by Nigeria with 04 (4.44%) research contributions. Table 4 indicates details about page length of the articles contributions. Out of total 90 research articles, 44 (48.48%) articles have the length of one-five pages, 43 (47.77%) articles have the length of six-ten pages and only 3 (3.33%) articles have the length of eleven-fifteen pages. Table 5 Show that Institution wise research contribution. The maximum 86 (95.55%) articles published in the Academic Institution and the minimum 01 (01.11%) articles published in the Special Libraries. Table 6 Reveals the contributions of authorship patterns of Indian journal of Information Sources and Services 2013 to 2017., among the 90 articles contributed, 59(65.55%) are two authors, 19 (21.11%) are single authors, 11 (12.22%) are three authors and 01 (01.11%) are four authors. Table 7 Indicates the Single and Multi Author of research Contributions. Authored papers are in Indian journal of Information Sources and Services from 2013 to 2017. The contributions in the single author articles are 19 (21.11%) and 71 (78.88%) are multiple author articles, so highest contributions are multiple author articles. The degree of collaboration was 0.788.

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Received on 17.09.2018 Modified on 20.10.2018

Res. J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2018; 9(4): 960-964.

DOI: 10.5958/2321-5828.2018.00161.4