A STUDY OF AUTHORSHIP PATTERN AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN IASLIC BULLETIN DURING 2010 – 2014

The purpose of the study is to identify the Authorship pattern and collaborative research of IASLIC Bulletin during 2010 – 2014. Authorship pattern and collaborative research is one of the important aspects of the bibliometric analysis. This study highlights the authorship pattern in the area of Library and information science. The study Analyze and discusses on the Distribution of article, authorship pattern, productivity and degree of collaboration. in this study found that the highest number of article i.e. 28 (24.34%) were published in the year 2010 & lowest 18(15.65%) in the year 2013. the highest numbers of author productivity i.e. 42 (32.59%) were in the year 2012 & lowest 29 (16.29%) in the year 2013. out of 178 contribution 62 (34.83%) contributors contributed as a single author. out of 115 articles 62 (53.91%) single and 53 (46.09%) Multi authored articles. The degree of the author collaboration is 0.6516.