Contributions of Indian authors to Library Philosophy and Practice (e-Journal) during 2001 to 2015.

Library Philosophy and Practice is a popular open access peer-reviewed electronic journal in the field of Library and Information Science. The journal is published under the auspices of University of Idaho Library and University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States and being indexed by world's largest bibliographic database SCOPUS since 1998. The coverage areas of the journal include explorations of current, past, and emerging theories of librarianship and library practice. The present study intends to analyze the contributions of Indian authors to Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) during 2001 to 2015. The study has retrieved a total numbers of 200 scholarly papers from SCOPUS database which were contributed by Indian LIS researcher during the period of study and analyzes the different bibliometric aspect like contribution of papers by year, geographical distribution of papers by state/ territory of origin, most active authors, type of documents, most cited papers, frequently used keywords, most productive institutions, foreign collaboration, authorship pattern and degree of collaboration etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]