چکیده:
Study analyses scientometric assessment of LIS research performance of OPEC member countries. The research publication data indexed in Scopus for the OPEC member countries were extracted and used for the analysis. The data are analyzed to identify quantitative research performance of OPEC member countries in terms of total documents, citable documents, and non-citable documents. The citation impact is measured by different parameters, like total citations, citations per document, Relative Citation Impact, self-citations, and self-citations per document. Finally, the quality of the document is assessed by means of h-index. Nigeria has been found to be most productive country in LIS research and Iran is receiving highest citations and also in h-index performance amongst OPEC member countries. Iraq, Libya, and Ecuador are far away in LIS research productivity and needs strong steps to improve LIS research productivity for future endeavor.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract Study analyses scientometric assessment of LIS research performance of OPEC member countries.
The data are analyzed to identify quantitative research performance of OPEC member countries in terms of total documents, citable documents, and non-citable documents.
Nigeria has been found to be most productive country in LIS research and Iran is receiving highest citations and also in /t-index performance amongst OPEC member countries.
There are number of researches conducted on research performance of an individual, group, institution, subject, small geographic region or continent level geographic regions by using various scientometric indicators (Barbaro, Gentili & Rebuffi, 2014; Costas and Bordons , 2005 & 2007; Moed, 2010; Navarrete & Asio, 2014; Tsay & Ma, 2003; Wang, Song & Barabasi, 2013).
Among Middle East countries, Kuwait has second highest percentage of cited documents; and in terms of aggregate performance, Qatar ranks second (Gul, Nisa, Shah, Gupta, Jan & Ahmad, 2015).
Methodology The study is confined to the scientometric analysis of research performance of OPEC countries in Library and Information Science (LIS) for the period of 1996 to 2015.
Algeria, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and Venezuela have research documents contribution in the range of 2- 69a and the remaining three countries Ecuador, Iraq, and Libya have less than I 9r contribution each (as shown in Table 1).
Table 3 represents citations related data to OPEC member countries for LIS research productivity during 1996-2015 as per data obtained from Scopus database.