Citation analysis of SRR's works: A look through the window of Google scholar

Harinarayana, N. S. and Vasantha Raju, N. (2009) Citation analysis of SRR's works: A look through the window of Google scholar. Information Studies, 15 (3). pp. 165-178.

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Abstract

This paper presents the findings of a citation analysis study, the impact of S.R. Ranganathan's (SRR's) seminal works, namely, Five laws of library science, Prolegomena to library classification, and Colon classification. More specifically the objective was to quantify the impact of SRR's works through citation analysis, and to study the citation pattern to SRR's works. Google Scholar (GS) was the major data source for the study. We searched the GS during the first week of December 2008 SRR was a prolific writer with over 50 books and over 1000 articles) GS's 894 citations, of which more than half (54.8%) is accounted for by the three books of SRR just mentioned. Presents ranked list of authors citing SRR's three works, their affiliation the periodicals in which these authors have published and related statistics

Item Type: Article
Subjects: K Library and Information Science > Library and Information Science
Divisions: Department of > Library and Information Science
Depositing User: Arshiya Kousar Library Assistant
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2019 05:26
Last Modified: 06 Jul 2019 05:26
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/4675

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