Authorship Pattern and Collaborative Research in the Field of Information Literacy (1981 to 2015)
Keywords:
Information Literacy, Authorship Pattern, Degree of Collaboration, AAPP, APPAAbstract
Scientometric techniques were applied to analyse the authorship pattern and collaborative trend in the field of information literacy for period 1981 to 2015. A total of 5682 papers were examined by year wise to ascertain authorship patterns, degree of collaboration and author productivity. 34.40% of papers were published with three authors and 18.76% of papers were with six authors. In the degree of collaboration of all years i.e. from 1981 to 2015 is 0.98 mean value is 0.5.
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3. Information literacy competency standards for higher education.(2000). [Brochure]. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.
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5. Pradhan, Pallab; Panda, Saroj; Chandrakar, Rajesh. (2011). Authorship pattern and degree of collaboration in Indian chemistry literature.Proceedings of the 8th International CALIBER -2011, Goa University, Goa, March 02-04, 2011: 691-699.
6. Sangam SL. Scientometrics: Quantitative methods for Library and Information Science. Bangalore: content craft. 2015.
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2021-08-16
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