Abstract:
The field of Library and Information Science is emanating as a unique and specialized field as other
fields. There are number of journals being published all around the world. Educational institutions
and libraries recognize and accept indexed journals in their respective fields. This study evaluates the
journals on library and information science using CiteScore as a tool, which is used to evaluate the
quality of Scopus indexed journals. Based on this CiteScore, the first ranked journals were selected
and analyzed. The journal’s ISSN was used as a search tool and downloaded all the articles published
during the period of 2010-2019, in Bibtex and CSV format. All the data were statistically analyzed
using Excel and RStudio software. This study identified that International Journal of Information
Management (ISSN 0268-4012) was the first ranked journal among the journals indexed in Scopus
with the CiteScore of (14.1). During the study period, 956 articles have been published. The highest
number of articles was published in the year of 2019. Based on publications, 2782 authors have
contributed to this journal, among them 95.33% of the publications were published by multiple authors.
Chang, V. was the most productive author (18 articles) and Dwivedi, Y.K had received the highest
citations (1321) for 14 publications. The keyword, ‘information management’ was used in 256 articles
and the United States was the largest contributor to the publications (22.69%). At the same time, the
University of Science and Technology of China published highest number of articles in this journal.
This analysis would guide libraries and education institutions on purchasing journals. Moreover, it
would guide the researchers of library and information science who do research on these disciplines to
select the indexed journals as their publishing platforms.
