Citation analysis of awarded doctoral theses by Department of Library and Information Science, Assam University, India

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2021

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Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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Bibliographies are lists of past literature that influenced an author in his present academic or research works. The study involves 10 (ten) doctoral theses with 2408 citations appended awarded during the period of 2016 to 2017 by the Department of Library and Information Science of Assam University (AU). A decadal period of 2010-2019 is the most productive one with 937 (38.91%) citations contributed. The average decadal growth rate is 150.92%. One-authorship is the most prevalent nature of authorship with 1128 (46.84%) citations. Over half of the total citations are received by articles from cited Journals with 1308 (54.32. %) citations, followed by literature type of Book and Book Chapters with 414 (17.19%) citations. Almost half of all the citations originated or produced out of India with 1196 (49.67%) citations. English is the predominant medium of communicating research works.

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Citation analysis, Doctoral theses, Authorship.

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Paumunmuang Sim T.S.t and Bobby Phuritsabam (2021), Citation analysis of awarded doctoral theses by Department of Library and Information Science, Assam University, India.. 4th International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. 194-196.

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