TRENDS IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE DOCTORAL RESEARCH AT UTKAL UNIVERSITY, BHUBANESWAR : A BIBLIOMETRIC OVERVIEW

The present study deals with the doctoral research productivity trends of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in the field of Library and Information Science from the year of its inception to as on 2015. During this long run of 26 years of journey in delivering Ph. D course, the university has produced a total number of 41 Doctoral research and 1 D. Litt research in Library and Information Science. The study has analyzed the 41 numbers of doctoral theses in Library and Information Science to identify the doctoral research trends of the university and found a fluctuate growth rate in publication of doctoral theses at an average 13.14 annual growth rate. In the year 2014 and 2015 highest 4 numbers of theses in each years have been published in a row of year wise productivity. Dr. Puspanjali Jena has been identified as top research guide with highest 9 numbers of research theses guiding followed by Dr. M. Mahapatra with 6 numbers of theses guiding. The average citation pattern has been identified at 278.9 per theses and highest 60.53% documents are referred from journals