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Is the Indian Library and Information Science Research Interdisciplinary?: A Case Study Based on the Indian Citation Index Database

Is the Indian Library and Information Science Research Interdisciplinary?: A Case Study Based on the Indian Citation Index Database

Swapan Kumar Patra, Anup Kumar Das
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522598251|ISBN10: 1522598251|EISBN13: 9781522598275
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch013
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Patra, Swapan Kumar, and Anup Kumar Das. "Is the Indian Library and Information Science Research Interdisciplinary?: A Case Study Based on the Indian Citation Index Database." Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science, edited by Anna Kaushik, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 169-188. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch013

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Patra, S. K. & Das, A. K. (2020). Is the Indian Library and Information Science Research Interdisciplinary?: A Case Study Based on the Indian Citation Index Database. In A. Kaushik, A. Kumar, & P. Biswas (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science (pp. 169-188). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch013

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Patra, Swapan Kumar, and Anup Kumar Das. "Is the Indian Library and Information Science Research Interdisciplinary?: A Case Study Based on the Indian Citation Index Database." In Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science, edited by Anna Kaushik, Ashok Kumar, and Payel Biswas, 169-188. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch013

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Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to map the interdisciplinary nature of Indian library and information science (LIS) research. For this purpose, citation information of 28 Indian LIS journals is considered from Indian Citation Index (ICI) database. ICI is a bibliographic and citation database of research journals published from India. In order to understand the anatomical pattern of citations, social networking software UCINET is used to map the citation network. The result shows that self-citations (about 23%) are the prevalent pattern of citations among Indian LIS journals. Beside this, citation pattern at large is confined to the subject of LIS (about 93%) area. Further, the analysis also shows that about 7% of articles are cited from non-LIS journals. However, citations of non-LIS fields are from a closely related field, for example, general science and technology, computer science, and so on. Thus, it can be concluded that Indian LIS research does not show true interdisciplinary nature.

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