Citations of the source journals in the field of library science and their ranking

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">A study has been carried out taking the citations appearing in the Annals of Library Science (afterwards Annals of Library Science and Documentation during 1954-1975 (Vols.1-22) as a base. Of the total 1545 citations appeared in the journal 217 relate to Indian journal articles & 350 relate to foreign journal articles Of the Indian periodicals Annals of Library Science (afterwards Annals of Library Science and Documentation) has been cited most accounting for 48.4% of the Indian journal citations. Of the foreign periodicals, American Documentation has been cited most accounting for 12% of the total foreign journal citations. The study also reveals that 77% of the Indian journal citations relate to only 5 journals, out of 24 and 68.3% of the foreign journal citation relate to 16 journals out of 85 journal cited.</span>