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Information Needs and Use Pattern of Educationists: A Citation Study Based on Masters Dissertations in Education

Information Needs and Use Pattern of Educationists: A Citation Study Based on Masters Dissertations in Education

P. Sheela
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781522534570|ISBN10: 1522534571|EISBN13: 9781522534587
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch006
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Sheela, P. "Information Needs and Use Pattern of Educationists: A Citation Study Based on Masters Dissertations in Education." Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information, edited by J. John Jeyasekar and P. Saravanan, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 72-94. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch006

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Sheela, P. (2018). Information Needs and Use Pattern of Educationists: A Citation Study Based on Masters Dissertations in Education. In J. Jeyasekar & P. Saravanan (Eds.), Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information (pp. 72-94). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch006

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Sheela, P. "Information Needs and Use Pattern of Educationists: A Citation Study Based on Masters Dissertations in Education." In Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information, edited by J. John Jeyasekar and P. Saravanan, 72-94. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch006

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Abstract

The chapter attempts to identify the information needs of educationists based on the citations in Master's degree dissertations in Education. The source for the study is the Master's degree dissertations submitted to the Manonmanium Sundaranar University during the period 1996 - 2006 from N.V.K.S.D. College of Education. The citation-based approach is followed in the study. Number of citations, cited articles, authors, frequency and percentage distributions were the tools used to analyze the data. Findings showed that journals were the most utilized reference materials in the dissertations. Indian periodicals are ranked first, followed by that from the USA. Mostly cited periodicals are published in the year 1993 with 181 citations (14.23%) and mostly-cited books were published in the year 1996 with 71 (13.95%) citations. Moreover, highest number of citations was in the year 1997 with 702(10.19%) citations and the lowest number of citations was during the year 2001 with 337(4.89%) citations.

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