Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST): Bibliometric Analysis from 2014-2019

Authors

Ikram Ul Haq, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFollow
Mumtaz Hussain Satti, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFollow
Zia Ahmed, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFollow
Fouzia Yasmin, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFollow

Abstract

The parent study was conducted with an aim to determine the various bibliometric characteristics of the documents published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) for 2014 to 2019. A retrospective study method was used and the data of JASIST were retrieved from Web of Science – Clarivate Analytics database. A total of 1,196 documents were found, contributed by the authors of 62 countries with average of 199 documents per annum. These documents received 11,941 citations with an average of 9.98 citations per documents. More than half of research were contributed by two countries, and amongst the top-10 most contributing organizations, six belonged to one country. The share of Asian countries has been recorded very low. JASIST has been providing excellent platform for dissemination of innovative ideas in the field of library and information Science since 1950.