BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSES OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS SUBMITTED BY STUDENTS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, IMO STATE UNIVERSITY. OWERRI, 2017-2020
Abstract
The study investigated bibliometric analysis of theses and dissertations submitted to the Department of Library and Information Science, Imo State University, 2017- 2020. The study was guided by three (3) specific objectives. The study adopted quantitative research design. The population of this study is 80 theses and dissertations of postgraduate students. A researchers designed template was used to collect data collection.
The data collected were tallied, converted to frequencies and the percentages worked out. Findings of the study revealed that: the most studied library is the academic library; the subject area mostly researched on is human resource development and the citation pattern mostly used is journal articles, books/monographs, internet.
The researchers recommend that supervisors of postgraduate students should approved topics that have not been over-researched in order to extend research to other areas for a better coverage of all subject areas in Library and Information Science
