Scientometric Assessment of Digital Library Research Publications during 2008-2017 using SCOPUS Database

This paper analyses the scientometric analysis of digital library research publications which are indexed in SCOPUS database between 2008 and 2017 with 10345 publications. This study identified the year wise growth publications, the role of top 10 authors, institution and country as well as the type of publication, authorship pattern and citation range. Further analyzing the degree of collaboration, relative growth rate and doubling time of the research publications. During the study it is identified that the highest of 1199(11.59%) publications in the year 2009 with 6905 (14.53%) citations, the average degree of collaboration is 0.78, the relative growth rate is decreasing trend and doubling time is increasing trend. During the study identified that the highest of 6187 (59.81%) publications published in the conference paper. The United States ranked first with 2650 (25.62%) publications, and Giles C.L. stands with highest of 59 (0.57%) publications with 643(1.35%) citations and the h-index is 15. During the study period, 4101 (39.64%) publications did not get any citation and remaining 6244 publications have cited publications.