Growth of Literature on Women: A Study of SSCI and A & HCI During 2003-2012
Journal Title: International Journal of Library Science and Research (IJLSR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
This study was made as an attempt to discover the growth of literature on women published worldwide, as represented in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). The study made an effort to identify India’s contribution in Women’s Literature in the databases under study along with the study of intensification of literature chronologically also outlined the source type of the published literature. Since the women’s Studies literature is being published in different bibliographical forms, the present study identified them and also showed the amount of literature being published through all these forms. The data has been gleaned from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) covering a 10 year period from 2003-2012. A positive growth in literature on women was found during this period; which was more prominent in SSCI than A&HCI. Maximum contribution from Indian authors found in the year 2012 with 1.128% of total contributions and article was found to be predominant in bibliographical forms of contributions with 78.464% contributions.
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Pallavi Gogoi
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