Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the scholarly communications in Library Review (LR) from 2007 to 2011 and to reveal key aspects of its publication trends.
Design/methodology/approach
– The study ...analyses five volumes of LR from the year 2007 to 2011 and employs the required bibliometric measures to analyze specific aspects of publishing trends of LR for the stated period.
Findings
– The study finds that single authored articles occupy the prominent position indicating the supremacy of solo research in LR. The degree of collaboration in the publications of this journal is found to be 0.36. It is evident that LR has accommodated over 22 citations per article during the publication phase from 2007 to 2011. In regard to country productivity, the UK leads the table, followed by the USA and Nigeria. However, Poland occupies the bottom position in the ranking. Hence, it is evident that the major chunks of contributions reflected in the publications of LR during the stated period are emanated from the UK and the USA.
Research limitations/implications
– The study focuses on the publication patterns of LR over a period of five years. Patterns of research output in 275 publications are analyzed. Further studies can include a comparative study of LR with that of a contemporary journal in the field of library and information science (LIS).
Practical implications
– Teachers and research scholars of LIS can benefit from insights into the scholarly contributions of LR that has accommodated 312 authors representing 49 countries.
Originality/value
– The study yields some interesting findings of academic publishing in LR. It can help the readers of LR to understand the most striking contributions, highly cited journals, the most prolific authors, country productivity, and assorted parameters.
This study attempts to map the publication delay of articles published in an international, peer-reviewed, open access Library and Information Science journal (LIS) i.e. the DESIDOC Journal of ...Library and Information Technology (DJLIT). An exploratory method was applied to collect data related to the editorial timeline through archival open access to the articles published in DJLIT during the period from 2012 to 2020. Data were tabulated in an Excel spreadsheet to facilitate statistical analysis and interpretation. The study finds a mean and median waiting time of approximately 176 days and 152 days respectively for articles before they got published. About 64.57 percent of articles went through revision. The majority of articles (i.e., 40.08%) experienced a delay between 100-199 days and were closely followed by 26.11 percent of articles with a delay of up to 99 days. Only 2.43 percent of articles fell in the 400-499 days delay category before being published. A strong influence of time between submission to final revision on overall publication delay was observed. The study did not find any correlation between the number of contributing authors and increasing delay in publication and contradicts the result obtained in another study on selected information science journals. The study is expected to help researchers and authors in the field of LIS to take informed decision before submitting their manuscripts to DJLIT for publication.
This paper critically analyses 199 peer-reviewed articles published in Sankhyā during 2003 to 2007. It examines authorship pattern, collaboration trend among authors, predominant areas of statistical ...research, and time lag in publications. Subsequent analysis focuses on prolific contributors, degree of collaboration, collaboration density, active sub-domains of statistics and time lag trend. Findings reveal the following: (a) the number of articles reduced from 24.6% to 14.0% that conforms to the growth trend of statistical publications in India; (b) single-authored paper counts only 30%, the rest in collaboration either by two-authors (47%) or three-to-fiveauthors (23%) and average authorship accounts for 1.96 per paper; (c) contributors of Sankhyā worked in highly collaborative manner and the degree of collaboration (CC=0.698) is quite significant; and (d) most of the bilateral and multilateral collaborations has emanated from 12 institutions of 5 different countries. Ranked list of prolific authors has been carried out using fractional counting method. It is observed that author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka’s law, but productivity distribution data partially fits the law when the value of a approximated to 2.77 and the number of papers does not exceed two. Broad subject clusters, such as statistics (153) and probability theory (38) constituted about 96% of the contributed articles. Nonparametric inference (18%), parametric inference (15%), design of experiments (10%) and multivariate analysis (8%) are found to be active areas of research in statistics. The study shows an average time lag of fifteen months to publish an article, and a declining trend of time lags following second-degree polynomial type has been observed in this scholarly journal.
