A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CITATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE OF SELECTING JOURNALS AND THE ACTUAL USAGE OF JOURNALS IN LIVESTOCK SCIENCE
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CITATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE OF SELECTING JOURNALS AND THE ACTUAL USAGE OF JOURNALS IN LIVESTOCK SCIENCE
| dc.contributor.author | ADEWOLE , OLUSEGUN SAMSON | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-10T10:57:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-06-10T10:57:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1984-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is to determine the Principal Journals that a livestock library should subscribe to, obtaining the highest possible Optimum utility of material usage. Using a data base of 114 Journals titles for a period of four years (198O-1983), citation and questionaire datas were used to test for association between two independent means of Journal selection. Would the most frequently cited Journals in livestock industry differ from those actually used in the N.A.P.R.I. Library? The Bradford principle was applied to the data gathered and the result is remarkably ccrralative. Again, the BradfordZipf distribution was used to determine the core Journals under the two situations, though the distribution couldn't hold well for the 'use analysis' because of the small data, it however still showed that the "Core Journals" determined for the industry are those ranked higher in the ranking list derieved. Using the ranked list of Journals in the two approaches, it was discovered that the Journal of Animal Science is the most popular Journal in the industry and NAPRI Library with citations of 889 and use score of 36 respectively. The result further shows that 72 Journals from 144 (63%) would satisfy over 90% of the needs of livestock scientists. The principle was used to the data on departmental basis, and it showed that for all the departments about 50% of the Journals cited were actually cited and used. iv It was observed that Nigeria Journals generally ranked low in the industry. They need the necessary exposure for international recognition. Finally, recommendations are then given. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6629 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | USAGE OF JOURNALS IN LIVESTOCK SCIENCE | en_US |
| dc.subject | USAGE OF JOURNALS IN LIVESTOCK SCIENCE | en_US |
| dc.title | A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CITATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE OF SELECTING JOURNALS AND THE ACTUAL USAGE OF JOURNALS IN LIVESTOCK SCIENCE | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |