BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL AND AUTHORSHIP RANKING OF LIS PUBLICATION OUTPUTS IN WEB OF SCIENCE, 2000-2016.

Abstract

This study examined the bibliometric analysis of institutional and authorship ranking of Library and Information Science (LIS) publications outputs in Nigeria from 2000-2016 in the Web of Science (WOS) database. Three objectives and three research questions were used to guide the study while a descriptive research survey design was adopted. Meanwhile a sample of 270 articles were selected as records for WOS for LIS in Nigeria through a census sampling technique which formed the population for the study. The study was limited to the use of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) all in WOS as instrument for data collection to ascertain the top ranked author and institution and source titles in LIS publications for Nigeria while publication counts and analysis were used as method for analyzing data. The results of the study indicated that, Nwagwu W.E topped the list of 20 ranked authors and University of Ibadan topped the list of top 20 ranked institutions in LIS research in Nigeria with 22 and 76 publications respectively. Meanwhile, Electronic library topped the list of top 20 ranked source titles in LIS research in Nigeria with 61 articles while Canadienne Des Science Del Information Et De Bibliotheconomie was the lowest with 2 articles.