Bibliometric is well known aspect of library and information science which applies to find out the measurement of bibliographic information and data. Basically bibliometric studies apply to find out number of aspects of a specific subjects, journals and text. Moreover, bibliometric use as a technique where a research scholars taken it into an account to quantify the progression growth of information and research on specific field. Bibliometric studies help to find out the depth analysis of scientific growth of literature which makes sure the impact of publication on specific filed [1].Patra [2] defines the number of terms connected with biblimetric e.g. scientometrics, and infometrics. Bibiliometric provides a space to measures scholarly communication or written papers/works. This is also used to describe the quantification of scientific productivity.  As said by Jacob [3] bibliometric provides set of parameters to count the published works and scholarly communication.  Additionally, using bibliometric techniques to measures authors productivity, region productivity, institutions productivity as well as frequency of publications. There are number of laws which is used to measure different parameters in bibliometic study e.g. Lotka’s law, bradfords law and Zippf’s Law respectively. Published since June 1999, SAJIM is available to scientists and practitioners worldwide. The management will maintain the standard required for international indexing services. Articles are citable. Previous issues are archived for permanency and are searchable onsite.

Objectives of the study

• To find out the Growth of Literatures

• To determine the degree  of  collaboration

• To explore the authors productivity

• To search out the region contributions

• To  discover the papers length

• To identify the References

Research Methodology

The bibliometric study is carried out to search the search articles from the online journal of South African journal of information management. The research articles have been retrieved from the website of online journal of South African journal of information management from chosen period of time 1999 to 2006. The research articles were download from website where were available on PDF formats. All the retrieved articles have been analyzed through MS office, MS Excel and electronic calculator. The parameters set to analyzed as the objectives of the study has drawn.

Related Works

Sa and Barik [4] studied contribution of Indian authors to library philosophy and practice during 2001 to 2015. They retrieved 200 research papers on SCOPUS database which was contributed by Indian authors. Kumar [5] investigated a bibliometric study of library Herald journal. He finds 114 research articles during the period of the study. Patil [6] examined the Scopus databases using bibliometric techniques. He finds 11861 global publications on feminism during the 17 years. He retrieved 15 countries were contributed their publications in the said area. USA was the top of list sharing publication with (47.45%) as far as the schools were concern London school of economics and political science has contributed highest relative citations impact. Siddique, Rehman, Khan & Altaf [7].Carried a study on library and information science research in Pakistan: a bibliometric analysis 1957 to 2018. They conducted a major study on web of science, Scopus, LISA and LISTA. Tian [8] carried a research topic and future trends on maker education in china based on bibliometric. They searched publications from CNKT database. They analyzed data and revealed the findings about coauthors, institutions of maker education. Kumar [5] studied library herald journal: a bibliometric study. The found 114 published articles from the selected period of 2011 to 2014. He finds that majority of the articles was written by single authors which were 65(57.01%) and multiple authors was 49 in total. The findings of the study revealed that the most productive country is India with 89.47%.Tanveer, Bhaumik, Hassan and Haq [9] carried a research on Scopus based bibliometric evaluation of Saudi medical journal from 1979 to 2019. They retrieved 7700 documents with average of 187% per annum and used quantitative method to complete this paper. They found King Saud University was most creative institutions with 1006 documents. As far region was concern that turkey was the top with 806 documents. Bambo and Pouris [10] studied bibiometric analysis of bio economy research in South Africa. They chose web of science to retrieve that data from South African authors. They chose some of countries and compare with South Africa like India, Brazil, Russia and china from 2008 to 2018.Sabri, Barkhan and Hamzehei [11] carried a survey a biblilometric study and visualization of library philosophy and practice during 1998 to 2018. They used Scopus data to retrieved and analyzed data. They have selected 20 years of data that was published in LPP. They found Rubina Bhatti with 19 papers, Nigeria with 549 and University of Ibadan with 78 papers from 1998 to 2018.Journal of informatics by [12], annuals of library and information studies [13], journal of school health [14], the journal of information literacy [15], Library herald [16], journal of documentation [17], journal of religion and health [18], journal of knowledge management practice [19], Malaysian journal of library and information science [20], Pakistan journal of medical science [21], Libri Journal [22], DESIDOC journal of library and information technology [23].

Data analysis and interpretation 

Year Wise Literature Growth

Table 1 shows the total growth of 252 research papers during the period of 1999 to 2006. The analyzed data shows highest number of research papers 41(16.26%) were published in 2003 and followed by 40(15.87%) and least number of research papers were 18(7.14%) in 2006. The overall data has been displayed in table 1.

Author’s Collaboration 

Table 2 shows the authors contribution of articles from the chosen period of study at SAJIM. The analyzed data has confirmed that a maximum number of articles have been written by individual authors which were 158(62.69%), followed by two authors 53(21.03%). as far as three authors they were 15(5.95%). preceding 6(2.38%) were four authors and 20(7.93%) more than four authors respectively.

Single Author’s v/s Multiple Authors

The Table 3 has indicated that the single authors were in 158 and multiple authors were 94 in total as the analyzed data has confirmed.

Papers Length 

When we look at length of the papers, we see that the majority of the papers’ length is 1-5 i.e.79 articles, preceded 75 articles, of which length is 5 -10. The 70 papers length is 11-15 in the said study. 24 articles length were found 16-20.  4 of the papers were longer with length of 21 to more .A complete year wise frequency distribution is below shown in the table.

Year wise References 

Table 5 shows the year wise used cited references of published articles from 1999 to 2006 in the South African Journal of information management. The analyzed data shows that 2999 references were retrieved. The retrieved data shows the most number of references were found 586 in 2005 and least was retrieved in 2006 with 239. Followed by 555 in 2003 and 528 cited references were originate in 2004. The 276 references were retrieved in 1999 and 2000 respectively. The 273 references were found in 2001 and followed by 266 were retrieved in 2002.

Degree of Collaboration 

The Table 6 shows the degree of collaboration among authors of SAJIM. It was found that single authors in dominancy with 158 and multiple authors were 94 in numbers. The present 

C= is degree of collaboration

Nm = number of multiple authors

Ns= number of single authors

Table 1: Year Wise Literature Growth

Table 2: Pattern of Author Collaboration in Published Articles (1999–2006)

Table 3: Comparison between Single Authors and Multiple Authors (1999–2006)

Table 4: Distribution of Research Papers by Length (1999–2006)

Table 5: Year-wise Distribution of Cited References in SAJIM (1999–2006)

Table 6: Degree of Author Collaboration in SAJIM Based on Year-wise Analysis

Table 7: Country-wise Contribution of Articles to SAJIM (1999–2006)

research study the value of C= 0.3. So, it was obvious that the degree of collaboration in the South African journal of information management    is    0.37    which  acknowledged   the single author dominancy over multiple authors.

Country wise contribution

Table 7 show the geographic distribution of published articles from 1999 to 2006 in the South African Journal of information management. The retrieved data shows the most number of papers or articles has been contributed by South Africa with 242 ranked first. Followed by UK with 3 ranked 2nd and Portugal has contributed ranked 3rd. It looks the South African contributions very high as per analyzed data of SAJIM.

Major findings of the study

• The data has confirmed that majority of the research papers has been published in SAJIM 41 in 2003 and least number of articles was in 2006 with 18 in numbers

• The analyzed data shows that majority of the papers have been written by individual authors with 158 and 6 research papers were written by 4 authors

• Data has confirmed that single author’s dominancy over multiple authors

• The analyzed data has been confirmed that majority of the research paper length 1-5 with 79 and 4 articles were range of 21 to more pages

• The data has confirmed that most number of references was found in 2005 with 586 and least were retrieved in 2006 with 239

• As far as the most productive nation South Africa was the most productive nation with 242 research articles

Conclusion

SAJIM is publishing since June 1999; SAJIM is available to scientists and practitioners worldwide. The management will maintain the standard required for international indexing services. Articles are citable. Previous issues are retrieved from the database of SAJIM. The SAJIM is very famous online journal among library professionals in South Africa and rest of the world as well. But from last decade or so it has gained enormous success. The prime and most significance is that articles published in this journal full length articles. SAIJM is an open access journal and users can get not just abstract can also retrieve full text articles without any impediment. The number of articles has published during the eight years; from 1999 to 2006 are 252. The findings show that most of the research papers have been written by individual with 158 and 79 papers page length of 1-5. Furthermore, most productive country was South Africa with 242 papers. There are 2999 references were retrieved from the published articles in SAJIM.

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