Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
ABSTARCT: The main theme of this piece of scholarly document is to examine the research methodologies used by researchers in the field of the Library and Information Sciences (LIS) in Pakistan from 1990 to 2020.The study is delimited to the research productivity of those PhD Scholars who have Profiles in Google Scholar. The data was extracted manually from the profiles of these scholars to scrutinize the research methodologies used in the covered studies. Total number of 1,128 research articles were retrieved one by one. The analysis was done through MS Excel, MS Word and Mobile calculator. The result of the study shows that Dr. Khalid Mahmood had made high contribution to LIS in Pakistan with 196 publications. Most (557) of the studies were quantitative in nature. The findings of the study had showed that 437 of the research works used adopted questionnaires as data collection instrument. Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal ranked at number first with 171 publications.