Abstract
The research paper deals with the citation analysis of doctoral theses of library and information science submitted to the Alagappa University with the special reference to shodhganga website. This study is based on 674 total citations in the 6 doctoral theses. The purpose of this study was to identify the most cited sources of information, authorship pattern, rank list of core journals and country-wise publication in library and information science. The study revealed that 79.91% of total citations are cited by the journals followed by websites with 6.39% citations. The Electronic Library journal has ranked first with 74 citations with 13.83% of total citations and 5.98% of citations of Annals of Library and Information Studies was ranked second. Authorship pattern show that most of the contributors are single author with 51.17% of total citations followed by two authors with 28.43% of citations and three authors with 12.71% of citations and more than three authors with 7.69% of citations.
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