Journal of Academic Librarianship: A Bibliometric Analysis

This bibliometric study is focused on the findings of ‘Journal of Academic Librarianship’ (JAL) during the period 2007-2016. Web of Science Citation database is used and 656 articles retrieved are analyzed on diverse parameters i.e. chronological distribution of articles, length of articles, authorship and citation pattern etc. More than half of the articles are published under joint authorship and average degree of collaboration is 0.56. A very large majority of articles (89.85 percent) is published by USA and top 14 countries published 94.36 percent articles in JAL from 2007-16. The most prolific authors are K. Coyle and G. Little with 9 articles each and highest contributed institutions are California State University System and University of Illinois System with 21 and 16 articles respectively. The average citation per paper is 4.35 and 8 papers received 31 and above citations