BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF D-LIB MAGAZINE

The paper brings out the results of a bibliometric analysis of the journal titled “D-Lib Magazine” for the period between 2003 to 2012. The data were downloaded from the journal's website. This study aims at analysing the research output performance of library and Information Science professionals on Library and Information Science subjects. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise distribution of articles, average number of references per articles, forms of documents cited, year wise distribution of cited journals etc. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. The result showed showed that out of 361 articles joint authors contributed 241 (66.75%) articles while the rest 120 (33.25%) articles were contributed by single author. Study reveals that the highest contributions were from universities with 147 (40.73%). This is followed by research institutions with 82 (22.71%) and Colleges 65 (18.00%). The remaining 67 articles (18.56%) were contributed by other agencies like public organisations etc. The study also reveals that majority of the contributors preferred journals as the source of information which occupied the top position with the highest number of citations 3656 (49.36%) of the total 7407 citations followed by Seminar / Conference Proceedings with 1315 (28.68%) citations.