S. Malathy ¹

Affiliations
1 Library and Documentation Division ISRO Satellite Centre, Airport Road Bangalore 560017, IN

Abstract

Despite increasing number of articles and books published on marketing of library and information services in the recent past, publishing of this book is justifiable when the existence of libraries is challenged by the Internet/digital world. The book is a collection of 40 papers organized into six sections with an editorial introduction to each section: Marketing concept: a changing perspective; Marketing in libraries around the world; Role of library associations; Education, training and research; Excellence in marketing; Databases and other marketing literature.

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S. Malathy ¹, P. Kantha ¹

Affiliations
1 Library & Documentation, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore-560017, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Journal of Spacecraft and Technology, an in-house publication of ISRO Satellite Centre publishes the research activity of the centre. This paper presents bibliometric study of the journal published during 1991 to 2012, which includes 22 volumes with 330 papers and 2597 citations. The analysis was made on different parameters like year-wise distribution of articles for the period of study (1991-2012), length of articles, authorship pattern of contributions, author productivity, degree of collaboration among co-authors and gender-wise distribution of papers. It also presents Institution-wise contribution, group-wise (only ISAC) contribution, ranked list of prolific/productive authors, number of citations appeared in papers and form-wise distribution of citations. This study provides the insight and development of the journal towards excellence.

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Journal of Spacecraft Technology, Scientometrics.

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