Citation Analysis of LIS Dissertations for Collection Development

This book is designed to analyze bibliographic references cited by Library and Information Science postgraduate students in their dissertation for determining patron-driven collection development. This book covers the concept, importance, development and methods for citation analysis. An overview of citation metrics and criticism of citation analysis has also been discussed in this book. The results showed that Journals are the most cited bibliographic format of the total citation.among the students. It was found that the dispersion of journal titles did not satisfy the verbal formulation of Bradford¿s Law of Scattering. The findings revealed the extensive use of collaborative author is popular among the masters students of LIS. Most of the information resources heavily cited by students are foreign. The study recommends that efforts should be made towards acquiring all titles that were extensively cited by students that were not available in the university library.