A Scientometric Introspect of Literary Warrants Published in Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) during the Last Decade

Scientometric studies are enduring studies that portray an organized visual of messy data. The current study is a scientometric study based on secondary data sets included in Scopus. A corpus of 311 documents published in the journal Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) from 2011 to 2020 was the population of the study. The study focused on several characteristics of the journal, including article distribution, average author per document, average document per year, authorship productivity, collaboration index, country-wise distribution of documents and citation analysis. The study retrieved the most prolic author contributing to this journal with 19 articles. The Council of Scientic and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the University of Delhi were the top literary contributors to the ALIS journal. The University of Kerala got the most citations per document (6.833). The maximum count of author keywords (Scientometrics) used in the journal from 2011 to 2020 was 135.


Introduction
Research publications are the prime physical manifestations of intellectual thought contents conveyed in published literature, with the primary goal of transmitting innovative ideas or information to any speci c eld of knowledge to advance the subject or discipline.
results with different node types such as keyword, country, author, and some others. Thus, this study aims to (i) the Annual growth of research publication and citation impact; (ii) analyse the proli c authors and the productive a liation; (iii) nd out the Country-wise Scienti c productivity; (iv) to nd out the cited documents; (v) to visualize relationship among references, authors, author's a liations; and (vi) to determine the author keywords analysis of publications in ALIS. ALIS is a leading library science journal being published by the NISCAIR, New Delhi on quarterly basis. This journal publishes articles, documentation notes and research reviews on library, documentation and information science, information systems, services and products, information technology, information users, bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, education and training and other related topics (www.niscair.res.in).
Literature on Bibliometric/Scientometric studies were available in various disciplines. In this article we grouped the existing literary warrants on six categories, i.e., "ALIS was the Focus", "Journal was the Focus", "Person was the Focus", "LIS Domain was the Focus", "Subject was the Focus" and "Database was the Focus". For each category pre-existing documents pertinent to this work was collected, screened, and critically evaluated for identi cation of its a nity towards the study.
ALIS was the Focus:  , an India-based journal, for the period 2011-2017 compared this journal's  trends with those of other LIS journals from the same geographical area (India, and Asia as a whole) and with the 10 highest-rated LIS journals worldwide using Scopus. The study highlighted that ALIS authors are focusing on metrics, bibliometrics and social networking, which follows global trends 5 . The reference accuracy of two prominent Indian LIS journals, viz. ALIS and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology re ected that a proper mechanism is needed in both the journals to maintain the quality of references in terms of errors 6 . Furthermore, the study on analysis of the number of articles published in A study used data from the Scopus database, which covered the years 1990 to 2017 and predicted global research in the eld saw a rapid 18.46 per cent increase in publications 37 .

Methodology
The study retrieved and downloaded the global publication data on search string "Source title" ALIS from the Scopus database (http://www.scopus.com) covering the period 2011-2020. Other metrics, such as citation trends and collaboration patterns, were also collected and analysed. The three eld plots; rfactorial analysis, country scienti c production and dynamic word growth were made using the biblioshiny visualization tool.

Growth and impact of research publications
The impact of research publication can be measured with the citation received for a research paper. We gathered year-wise publication, mean citation per year per document (total 311) and mean citation per year. It is observed that the growth of research publications is in continuum and is increasing steadily over the years. We noted that a highest number 45 documents were published during the year of 2014. In 2011, the highest mean citation per document, mean citation per year and mean citation per year per document were 6.7777,6.7777 and 0.6162, respectively.   CI of documents is a mean number of authors per joint paper. To determine the mean number of authors per jointly authored paper, the following formula was used CI = Total number of authors/ Total joint papers It can be observed from Table 2 that there was maximum CI 2.41 in the year 2011 and minimum CI 1.9 in the years 2020.        Table 6 lists the top 10 most relevant a liations from which ALIS journal research has been conducted (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). It was discovered that the CSIR and the University of Delhi were the leading institutions in terms of the number of documents and the citation count; however, the University of Kerala topped the list in terms of citation per document (CPD), with 6.8333, followed by the CSIR with 5.3333 CPD. Abbreviation: CPD = Citation per document 3.6. Scienti c output by countries Figure 1 depicts scienti c output by countries. The map was generated through "Biblioshiny," which provides multiple shades representing three colors, namely, blue for different productivity rates, dark blue for high production, and grey for no documents. The most productive countries relating to published documents from the journal "ALIS" Processing (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020) were India (234 documents, 75.24 per cent), followed by Nigeria (23 documents, 7.39 per cent), and Sri Lanka (13 documents, 4.18%). In contrast, the highest number of citations was attributed by the India 767 with mean citations per article of 3.28 followed by and Sri Lanka (40, with a mean citations per article of 3.07 and Nigeria (62 with a mean citations per article of 2.69).

Factorial analysis based on author's keywords.
The factorial analysis is a graphical depiction of word collections tied to a given parameter. Author keywords for publications published in ALIS(s) from 2011 to 2020 was indexed in Scopus. Based on the keywords, the following parameters were examined. Figure

Conceptual Structure Map-method: Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) of high-frequency titles
We also delved into Cluster analysis and MCA of titles with a high frequency of occurrence. MCA was performed on the titles in the data set from 2011 to 2020. Figure 3

Conclusion
In the present study, we analysed the growth and publication trends of ALIS journal. The journal has gone tremendous change in terms of both quantities as well quality. There are many visibilities and impact of the research work it has published during the last 10 years. Overall, 963 citations were found from 311 documents. The annual growth of the published documents was observable from the analysis. Sen, bk contributed the highest number of research documents (19) and ranked as the most active author in this journal. During the study period, the maximum mean CPD and mean citation per year were 6.77 and 6.77, respectively and the mean CPD per year was 0.6162, respectively, where co-authors per document was