Singh G. Mittal R. Ahmad M. "A bibliometric study of literature on digital libraries" Electronic Library 25(3): 342-348, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail: E-mail Addresses: rekha at niseair.res.in 

Title: A bibliometric study of literature on digital libraries 

Author(s): Singh G (Singh, Gian), Mittal R (Mittal, Rekha), Ahmad M (Ahmad, 
Moin) 

Source: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 25 (3): 342-348 2007 

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 8      Times Cited: 0       
 
Abstract: 
Purpose - The study has been under-taken with the purpose of finding out 
the growth and characteristics of digital library literature. 
Design/methodology/approach - Over 1,000 articles for the period 1998-2004 
were collected from LISA Plus and were analyzed to study authorship 
patterns, authors' productivity and prominent contributors, language-wise 
and year-wise distribution of articles, country-wise distribution of 
journals, core journals in the subject area, and indexing term frequency.

Findings - Some of the important findings are that most articles (61 
percent) are single-authored; author productivity is not in agreement with 
Lotka's Law, except in one case where number of articles is three; the 
maximum number of articles were published in 2003 with English being the 
most productive language; maximum articles were published in the journal D-
fib Magazine; distribution of articles nearly follows Bradford's Law; and 
USA ranked first for maximum number of journals.

Originality/value - The paper is relevant to those interested in 
bibliometrics and provides a comprehensive over-view of authorship in the 
library and information science community.


Addresses: Mittal R (reprint author), Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat 
Resources, Training & Translat Grp, New Delhi, India
Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, Training & Translat Grp, New 
Delhi, India
Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, Natl Sci Digital Lib Project, 
New Delhi, India

E-mail Addresses: rekha at niseair.res.in 

Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD 
BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND 
Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science 
IDS Number: 187DI 

ISSN: 0264-0473 

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