Mapping the Publication Trends of World Digital Libraries- An International Journal from 2008–2017: A Bibliometric Analysis Shukla Ravi1, Bramha Krishna1, Verma Manoj Kumar2,* 1Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl-796004 2Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl-796004 *Corresponding author email id: manojdlisbhu@gmail.com
Online published on 17 August, 2019. Abstract This Study deals the mapping of the publication pattern of the World Digital Libraries-An International Journal during the period of 10 years (2008–2017) on the basis of bibliometric parameters in which 104 research articles were published. This paper investigates the authorship pattern, issue-wise distribution of articles, geographical distribution, most productive authors, reference distribution of articles and found that the maximum numbers of articles 48 were contributed by the single author, followed by two authors with 29 articles. The first position was occupied by India with a maximum number of contributions i.e., 65 articles. And the most prolificauthor is M. Madhusudhan which contributed 7(22.58%) articles, followed by Gobinda Chowdhury, Anna Kaushik and Zahid Ashraf Wani contributed 3 (9.68%) articles each. Top Keywords Bibliometric, World Digital Libraries-An International Journal, Authorship pattern, Citation analysis, Reference distribution, Geographical distribution. Top |