Abstract
This study especially focuses only on the articles published in the “Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities” published by the University of Peradeniya. A total of 319 records of articles published in Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities and authored by 147 authors during the period 1975 – 2009 (inclusive) were analyzed in this study. The objective of this study was to study bibliometric characteristics such as distribution of publications, research growth rate, and authorship pattern “Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities”. The research method of this study was Bibliometric analytical method. Findings of the analysis revealed that distributions of publications vary over the period of study and English occupies as dominant language. Research growth of publications was increased with positive indicators. Majority of the contributions were single authored. Author productivity varied between the observed percentage of authors and expected percentage of authors as predicted by applying Lotka’s equation. Among the productive authors Peris, Merlin is in the top position with 26 contributions. In the ranked list of affiliated institutions, University of Peradeniya leads others. Zipf’s Law was proportionally matching with the frequency list of selected title words of this study.Journal of the University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, Vol. 18, Issue 1, January 2014, Page 51-71
Highlights
Sri Lanka is one of the fast developing countries in South Asia
Among the productive authors Peris, Merlin attached to the Department of Western Classics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka is in the top position with 26 publications
Findings of the analysis reveal that distributions of publications vary over the period of study and English occupies as dominant language
Summary
Sri Lanka is one of the fast developing countries in South Asia. One of the key areas for the enhancement of development of Sri Lankan higher education sector is weighing and improving the research productivity and visibility of research publications of the Universities. In Sri Lanka few bibliometric studies have been done especially by some library professionals. In 1923, a study was conducted by Hulme (1923), entitled ‘Statistical Analysis of the History of Science’ His analysis was based on the entries in the English International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. A third study was the work of Gross and Gross (1927) reported in later They counted and analyzed the citations in articles from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and produced a list of journals deemed important to chemical education. Another prominent work was Bradford’s 1934 article on the distribution of literature in lubrication research
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