Worldwide Growth and Development of Library and Information Science Journals Agrahari Ashutosh1,*, Chaudhary C.P.2, Singh S.N.3 1Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Tanhril, Aizawl-796004, Mizoram 2Assistant Librarian, Panjab University Extension Library, Ludhiana-141001, Punjab, India, chaudharycp@gmail.com 3Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Tanhril, Aizawl-796004, Mizoram, drsinghsn@yahoo.com *Corresponding author e-mail id: ashuagrahari@yahoo.com
Online published on 16 December, 2017. Abstract This empirical study has been conceived to examine the pace of worldwide growth of journal publication in the domain of library and information science (LIS). Data has been recorded from Ulrich International Periodical Directory, 49th edition, and descriptive statistics have been used to analyse the data. Results show that there was the steady growth in LIS journal publication, and it has been noticed that about half of the LIS journals were published from countries like the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom, China, India and Germany. The fifth decade of the twentieth century was very prolific. During the period, 12 countries started journal publication. Europe was the largest contributor to LIS journal of the world. As far as the journals’ language is concerned, English was the most favoured language followed by Chinese. Meanwhile, the share of bilingual journals was just 4.94% of the world output. A matter of concern noted during the study is that only USA and Canada had growth in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Top Keywords Journals, Periodicals, Scholarly publication, Scholarly communication, Primary Publication, Journal growth, Library and Information Science. Top |