SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ASIAN COUNTRIES LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS

Abstract

This paper discusses about the Asian countries Library and Information Science publications during the period of 1996-2016 and its citation available in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank data base by the authors from top 15 countries (based on publications). The relevant data are collected from Scimago Journal and Country Rank data base and it was analyzed. It shows among the Asian countries Library and Information Science publications totally 21233 articles were published which are indexed in Scimago database. Among the publications, maximum of 8506(40.06%) articles published by China and followed by Taiwan with 2764(13.02%) publications and India is in 3rd place with 2626(12.37%) publications during the study period.