Authors’ Productivity in Information Literacy Literature during 2011-2020

Abstract

This study will analyze the decadal growth of Information literacy literature from 2011-2020. The limit of the analysis is restricted to the field of Social Science and Arts. Based on quantitative analysis about AGR (Annual Growth Rate), RGR (Relative Growth Rate), degree of collaboration, popular sources and productive affiliations, results have been formulated about the growth in information literacy literature. Elsevier’s abstract and citation database Scopus is exclusively used for bibliometric analysis of information literacy publications. Tracing the evolution of information literacy publications over the decade (2011-2020) does not explains an exponential growth as expected from past studies, but rather shows ups and downs in the production. The document wise analysis shows that 81.07% of literature is in the form of articles. Total publications over the decade stands at 3064 i.e., on an average of 306 publications are published annually. Also, the citations count is 17,177 for 3064 publications which give an average of 5.606070 for each paper. The study also reveals that the highly prolific authors of the field. The study shows that Pinto, M. from the University de Grande is the most prominent author in the information literacy field.