GROWTH OF LIS RESEARCH ARTICLES IN AFRICA SEEN THROUGH SCOPUS: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the growth of Library and Information Science (LIS) research articles in Africa. It covers a total of 160 article indexed by Scopus database during the period of 1987-2017. In this study the author has tried to analyze the annual growth of LIS research publications in Africa and identify the authorship pattern, authors’ productivity and degree of collaboration. Lotka's inverse square law has been applied to identify the productivity of authors and Bradford's law has been applied to identify the scattering of core journals.