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Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Sife, Alfred S.
dc.contributor.author Lwoga, Edda T.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-03T09:01:46Z
dc.date.available 2024-10-03T09:01:46Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Said Sife, A., & Tandi Lwoga, E. (2014). Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania: A scientometric analysis. New Library World, 115(11/12), 527-541. en_US
dc.identifier.issn DOI 10.1108/NLW-04-2014-0038
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1516
dc.description ©Emerald Group Publishing Limited 0307-4803 DOI 10.1108/NLW-04-2014-0038 en_US
dc.description.abstract Purpose– The purpose of this scientometric study was to conduct an analysis of the research productivity andscholarly impactofacademiclibrariansinTanzaniaforaperiodof30yearsfrom1984 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach– Data were obtained using the Publish or Perish software which uses Google Scholar to retrieve scholars’ publications, citations and related metrics. For each librarian, the retrieved metrics were the number of papers, papers per author, citation counts, average citations per paper, average papers per author, average citations per year, average citations per author and four indices, namely, the h-index, g-index, Hc-index and the HI-norm. Findings– The study findings indicate that 434 publications were recorded for all librarians, giving anaverageof14.5publicationsperyear.Theyear2008hadthemost(9.9percent)publicationsfollowed by2010(7.8percent),whiletheyears1985and1987hadthelowest(0.2percent)numberofpublications. About43percentofthepublicationsweresingle-authoredandthedegreeofcollaborationwas0.57.The top-ten ranked librarians contributed more than half (53.2 per cent) of all publications, although they showed considerable variation among different metrics. Only three journal articles had 25 or more citations. Originality/value– Previousstudiesonthetopicarescarce,and,therefore,thispaperprovidesuseful recommendationstolibraryandinformationscience(LIS)schools, libraries and universities to improve research productivity of their academic librarians in Tanzania and other countries with a similar setting. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher ng Limited 0307-4803 DOI 10.1108/NLW-04-2014-0038 NLW 115,11/12 528 Stenstrom (1986) noted that librarians who conduct research are li en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 115;12
dc.subject Citation analysis en_US
dc.subject Academic librarians en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.subject Publication patterns en_US
dc.subject Research productivity en_US
dc.title Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania en_US
dc.title.alternative Ascientometric analysis en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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