Core Journals in the field of Library and information Science

摘要

There are 1,300 journals of Library and Information Science being published all over the world. No single library can afford to procure all these journals. Bibliometric studies enable to make a judicious selection from the large number of journals. The present study analyses the citations appended to articles that appeared in popular Indian library and information science journals during the period 1996 and 2001 and attempts to identify the core periodicals in the field of library and information science. The study reveals that Annals of Library and Information Science (now Annals of Library and Information Studies) is most popular Indian Journal among researchers whereas College and Research Libraries is the most cited foreign journal.