Abstract
The aim of this study is to know the use of web citations in Indian LIS journals published during 2001 to 2010. The findings of study shows that the average number of web citations per article ranged from a low of 1.02 in 2001, to a high of 4.58 in 2010. There was a constant and continuous increase in the number of articles with web citations over the years during 2001–2010. The average number of web citations for every article is 2.60. The most widely cited top level domains were organizational (.org) and commercial (.com) with 30.91% and 22.08% respectively. The highest percentage of web citations belonged to HTML file formats (67.30%) followed by PDF file formats (11.39%).
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