Authorship Pattern and Collaborative Research in the Field of Information Literacy (1981 to 2015)

Dr Dasanna .; Devaraj .

Dr Dasanna . Research Student, (Dravidian University) Librarian Sambhram Institute of Technology, Bangalore. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-7679
Devaraj . University Librarian & Co-PI of e-Granth Project, UAS, Library, GKVK.

Abstract

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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