• Devaraj Hosamani

Abstract : as reflected through scholarly journals. Co-word analysis is used to identify the core research areas by quantifying the frequency of occurrence and the analysis of co-occurrence of 4735 descriptors assigned to 1408 journal articles of Indian authors indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database. The Kamada-Kawai algorithm is used for constructing the network of relations between descriptors and making spatial distribution of these. The result shows a research trend focusing on library practice, user services, cataloguing, user studies, university libraries, public libraries, information retrieval, library education, citation analysis, bibliometrics; and moving towards copyright, library technology, digital libraries, institutional repository, CD-ROM databases, and electronic periodicals. The findings indicate that open access, Web 2.0, World Wide Web, Internet, access to information, etc are some of the new areas of that LIS researchers are interested in. the research productivity and impact of LIS teachers in Karnataka state through the citation analysis using Google Scholar. This study also analyzes the research productivity of schools and teachers of LIS to rank them. The study confined its scope to the present working LIS teachers in LIS schools of Karnataka state. In this paper, research productivity and impact of LIS teachers is carried out with number of articles published, number of citations received, h-index and i10 index. The data was collected from the Google Scholar database because it is a known fact that google scholar is a comprehensiveness database of scholarly literature. The collected data have been analysed and results are reported with appropriate inferences. 1199 research papers published by LIS teachers of Karnataka state. There are 11 research articles which have been cited 50 or more times each. Mysore University, Karnatak University and Karnataka State Women University occupy top three positions in the number of articles published. The study also examines the h-index raking of LIS teachers, Sampath Kumar B T occupy first position. Biradar B S, Kumbar B D and Biswanath Dutta occupy second position. The highest number of publications from LIS teachers is during 2014-2019(till July) is 38.20% and least is 4.34% during 1994-1998.

Library and information science, LIS research, research trends, subject trends, topics trends

"Research trends in Library and information science", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.701-706, April-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104190.pdf

"Research trends in Library and information science", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no. pp701-706, April-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104190.pdf