Authorship Characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan 1994-2003: A Bibliometric Study
| Main Author: | Tiew, Wai Sin |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya
, 2006
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/9037/1/Authorship_study_in_Sekitar_Perpustakaan.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/9037/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This bibliometric study attempts to explore the authorship characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan, one of the earliest library and information science (LIS) periodicals published by the National Library of Malaysia (PNM – Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia) since 1977. A total of 148 articles published in 20 issues of Sekitar Perpustakaan covering the period 1994-2003 were analyzed. Author characteristics such as name, gender, status, institutional affiliation, language preference of articles and authorship of articles were obtained, studied and analyzed. The findings reveals single-authored articles far outnumbered multi-authored articles at 79%; female contributors (65.74% or 71 authors) predominates male contributors (34.26% or 37 authors); middle-level professionals were the largest contributors of articles (59.3%); 83 (56%) of the articles published were in Bahasa Melayu, the national language, while 65 (44%) articles were in English; the top ranked contributor is Ding Choo Ming, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of the Malay World & Civilization, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia with nine contributions; and the most prolific institution is PNM with 41 contributing authors.