Research Productivity of India's scientific literature on Library Science and Information Science

The study provides a comprehensive analysis of trends of the India’s scientific research on Library Science and Information Science from the first published literature up to March, 2022. Relevant documents were searched using in search field of Address ‘India’ and in Web of Science Categories we refined by “Library Science Information Science”, to retrieve relevant literature using the Web of Science (WOS) database. Scientometric indicators were analysed using HistCite and VOSviewer. A total of 1851 publications with an h-index of 63 were retrieved from the database. Overall, articles retrieved were written by 2912 authors, published in 99 journals, 80 countries represented, and 12.42 average citations per document. Indian Institute of Management led the list of contributing institutions with 89 articles. The National Institute of Science and Technology & Development Studies , the A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technology University and Satija MP was the top funding agencies that enhanced research on Library Science and Information Science and supported more than 120 articles. USA collaborates the most significant proportion 187 (10.1 %) India on Library Science Information Science publication closely followed by United Kingdom in the number of publications 95 (5.2 %). The study provides insight into the India’s research perspective for the scientific progress on the Library Science Information Science thus significantly impacting and supporting intervention towards improving Information Scientist occurrence.