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Journal of information technology education: A Bibliometric study from 2002 to 2007 Muhammad Anwar Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science, University of Balochistan, Quetta mohammad.anwar76@yahoo.com Abstract The Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles on the use of information technology in education. The current study has been taken into account to find out the status of publishing trends in journal of information technology education. The prime objective of the present study is to find out the year wise publications, authors contribution, papers length, most prolific author and most productive region. This study is to analyzing the research in journal of information technology education which published from 2002 to 2007.the present revealed that 160 research articles have been published to the six years. Most number of papers has been identified in 2003 and 2007 with 32(20%). Least has been published in 2004 with 21(13.12%). As far as author’s collaboration is considered that two authors were in majority with 64(40%).followed by single with 44(27.5%). This study also disclosed the papers length that 64(40%) in range of 11-15. Followed by most productive region was USA with 70(42.42%). Furthermore, most prolific authors from Australia with 4 research papers. It’s obvious that the journal of information technology education is rapidly growing journal in the field of education, technology. Keywords: bibliometric, education, technology, research, information, collaboration. Introduction: Journals are concerned the first hand information sources which are included new and updated articles with latest issues of research on specific field of study. Journals are playing vital role for latest development on particular field of study. Information growing is getting too speed day by day. In the same way bibliometrics study plays important role in the library and information science via analyzing the journal, periodicals and books as others materials through which their configuration of publication worth, author contributions, countries contributions, lengths of papers etc. it may help the library staff for stock collection and development, this will reveal also major impact on libraries to gain their collection through bibliometrics analysis/studied. There are so many persons; scholars have defined the term bibliometrics in their own context and already mentioned in different places so it’s doesn’t need to describe more as well. The term bibliometrics 1 have been coined by Pritchard in 1969. But before that the alternative term was originated in 1922.it means the study about the measurement of books is called bibliometrics .when the measurement of book is come than its define certain things to measure like length of papers, authors, countries are to measured is called bibliometrics. Bibliometric is well known area of library and information science which aim to examine the latest publishing trends in different field of studies. Bibliometric study widely uses to analyze to see the growth of publications on a specific field of study. Ferreira, M. P., Santos, J. C., de Almeida, M. I. R., & Reis, N. R. (2014)1 said that bibliometric study purely related to statistical and quantitative analysis of published online and printed materials as well as sources of information. Moreover, bibliometric was coined by Allan Prichard in 1969 which mean statistical and mathematical tools to measures research articles published from different authors and different disciplines. Luo, F., Sun, A., Erdt, M., Raamkumar, A. S., & Theng, Y. L. (2018)12 Stated that bibliometric use to evaluate the research trends as well as highlighted the scholars lily working environment. They also determined that massive aspect of research output has been justified through bibliometric. Moreover, it can be said bibliometric is some sort of technique which enable the researcher to dig out the important area of research. The bibliometric can be beneficial for researcher to better understand their selection of research topic and can be helpful for choosing research direction. Krauskopf, E. (2018)13 stated that bibliometric use for distinguish the impact of a journal. The bibliometric study also describes the current status and future analysis of a specific journal. Moreover, this will use to evaluate the libraries collections, institutions ranking and number of indicators use to justify the biliometric study e.g. impact factor. H-index etc. Objectives of the Study This study has been organized the following objectives: 1. To identify the research articles published from 2002 to 2007 in JITE. 2. To find out the country wise contribution in research articles in education and IT field from 2002 to 2007. 3. To distinguish the author collaborations during the chosen period of study. 4. To identify the papers length published from selected period of study. 5. To determine author ranks during the chosen period and selected journal. Research Methodology: The online Journal of information technology education (JITE) from 2002 to 2007 has been chosen for this research. Research articles and research papers have been searched, retrieved and analyzed 2 according to as per objectives of the current study. The data has been analyzed with the help of MS excel and cell phone calculator. Review of Related Literature Zhang, C. C., Zheng, X., Su, C. H., Huang, H., Yan, F. R., Pan, X. J., ... & Jin, Z. Z. (2017) 8.they investigated a bibliometric study of the journal of school health 1965to 2014. They used certain software’s to view those articles which were published on studied journal. They retrieved 5242 articles to use those software’s. They disclosed the importance of this journal regarding health. The researchers agreed that this is the best journal for sharing the research on health specifically. Hayati, Z., & Didegah, F. (2010)9 they studied that international scientific collaboration among Iranian researchers during 1998to2007.they discovered the research articles of Iranian scholars during the covered period. They used science database to find Iranian scholars collaboration. They find out 115 countries for scientific research papers contribution from Iranian scholars. They identified frontline countries like UK,USA and Canada where they have contributed. Nikolić, S., Penca, V., Ivanović, D., Surla, D., & Konjović, Z. (2012, June) 10 they studied CRIS service for journal and journal articles evaluation. Du, H., Li, B., Brown, M. A., Mao, G., Rameezdeen, R., & Chen, H. (2015)2 they investigated expanding and shifting trends carbon market research a quantitative bibliometric study. The period chosen for this study was 1992 to 2011. They have selected 1992to 2011to retrieve articles for this study. They used SCI and SCCI for recording published articles. Dhawan, S. M., Gupta, B. M., Kumar, A., Bansal, J., & Gupta, R. (2017)6 they searched comparative performance evaluation of six Haryana state universities in S & T research: A bibliometric study 2006 to 2015. They were selected six universities for comparison of their research work on chosen period. They were use Scopus to record the data of science and technology. Fernandes, C., & Ferreira, J. J. (2017)7 they disclosed/ studied cooperation and competition in SME networks: a bibliometric study. They have divided this study into three periods. First period 1963 to 2000, second period 2001to2009 and the third period were 2010 to 2015. Dhawan, S. M. (2017)14 he finds Digital libraries in India: A scientometric assessment of publications during 2007-16. He used Scopus to retrieve 424 Indian publications from the domain of digital library of India. He identified the growth rate of digital library were 10.95%. He has recorded per citation for per paper 2.5%. 3 Da Silva, T. N., Felisberto, A. M. S., Duarte, M. D. G. M., Gouveia, M. L. A., de Vasconcelos, A. K. M., de Freitas, A. Z. V. M., ... & Silva, A. O. (2017)15 they investigated current trends of Brazilian research in chronic disease related to elderly people : a bibliometric study. They find 1255 units but only 50 were selected to complete the study. da Silva, E. C., de Lima, C. L. J., Zaccara, A. A. L., Evangelista, C. B., de Oliveira, E. D. L. N., de Sousa, A. T. O., ... & de Sá França, J. R. F. (2017) they searched The Scientific production about the Human Caring Theory: a bibliometric study. Gupta, D. K., Kumar, V., & Kabra, N. (2018)16 they searched revisited Indian origin library and information science journals included in UGC, API: a study. They find 38000 journals on number of database like web of science, Scopus and Indian citation index. Valenzuela-Fernández, L., Merigó, J. M., & Nicolas, C. (2018)17 investigated the most influential countries in market orientation: a bibliometric analysis from 1990 to 2016. They identified analysis 10 countries which contributed more than 700 of total publications. Ferreira, M. P., Santos, J. C., de Almeida, M. I. R., & Reis, N. R. (2014) 1 they studied meager & acquisition research: A bibliometric study of top strategy and information business journals. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRATATION Growth of Literature: the table shows the growth of literature from chosen period and selected journal namely Journal of information technology education. This shows the year wise publications of articles which has been published in (JITE) journal of information technology education during the period of this study. During the chosen period of 6six years 160 research articles has been published in identified journal. The maximum numbers of papers were published in 2003 and 2007 with 32(20%) respectively. 30(18.75%) papers were in 2006. 23(14.37%) papers were published in 2005. The minimum number of a articles were published in 2004 with 21(13.12%). Growth of publications of papers from 2002 to 20007 has been shown in table.1. Table.1. Growth of Literature S.No 1 Year 2002 Papers 22 Percentages 13.75 2 2003 32 20 3 2004 21 13.12 4 2005 23 14.37 5 2006 4 30 18.75 6 2007 32 20 160 100 Total Author collaborations: this table shows collaborative works among authors which is identified in the selected period of study. The analyzed data shows collaborative efforts are in major quantity in the chosen period of study. Two authored papers are 64(40%) in larger collaborative efforts in total number of papers. Single authored the 44(37.5%) in number. Three authors works with each other 35(21.87%). Four authors have contributed 12(7.5%). Five authors have collaborative 02(1.25). Moreover, more than five authors have contributed 03(1.87%). The table.2 indicated the frequency of author’s collaboration. Table.2. Author’s Collaboration Authors 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total Percentage Single 5 9 5 8 6 11 44 27.5 Two 13 13 7 9 11 11 64 40 Three 4 5 5 5 6 10 35 21.87 Four 0 5 1 1 5 0 12 7.5 Five 0 0 1 0 1 0 02 1.25 More than Total 0 0 2 0 1 0 03 1.87 22 32 21 23 30 32 160 100 Paper’s Length: The table shows the length of the papers from chosen period of study. It identified majority of papers were published in length 11-15 with 64 papers. 53 articles were in range of 16-20 length.23 research articles were in range of 6-10 in length. Moreover, 19 research articles were considered longer in range of 21-30. Rest of them just 1 paper in range of 1-5..A complete year wise frequency distribution in this regard has been included in table 3. 5 Table.3.Paper’s Length Papers length 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total Percentage 1-5 0 1 0 0 0 0 01 0.62 6-10 8 7 2 2 2 2 23 14.37 11-15 10 17 07 5 14 11 64 40 16-20 4 5 10 11 9 14 53 33.12 21-30 0 2 2 5 5 5 19 11.87 More than 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 00 Total 22 32 21 23 30 32 160 100 Countries Rank This table shows the geographic and country wise collaboration in journal of information technology education from chosen period of study from 2002 to 2007. This table shows the most productive country where USA ranked first with 70(42.42%) papers. 29(17.57%) Australia stands 2nd .the 3rd placed occupied by U.K with 12(7.27%). Finland were ranked 4th with 8(4.84%). Further, UAE occupied 5th place with 7(4.24%). 6(3.63%) with Canada ranked at 6th place. Moreover, Italy placed 7th with 4(2.42%). South Africa and Greece placed 8th with 3(1.81%). New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and hungry occupied 9th place with 2(1.21%). Rest of them were 15(9.09%) ranked 10th place. The figure 1 and table 4 presents a detailed view of contributing countries. Table.4. Countries Rank Country Articles Percentages Rank USA 70 42.42 1 Australia 29 17.57 2 U.K Finland 12 8 7.27 4.84 3 4 6 5 UAE Canada 7 6 4.24 3.63 6 Italy 4 2.42 7 8 South Africa 3 1.81 8 Greece 3 1.81 New Zealand 2 1.21 9 Demark 2 1.21 9 9 Hungry 2 1.21 9 Ireland 2 1.21 Others 15 9.09 Total 165 100 10 Country wise figure.1 70 60 50 40 70 30 20 29 10 11 0 15 7 3 3 6 4 7 8 2 2 2 2 Author’s Rank This table shows the rank of authors who have contributed their research papers in the journal of information technology education to the chosen period of time from 2002 to 2007. On the bases of analyzed data the authors identified for the top to bottom rank that have contributed more than 1 paper in the chosen period in selected journal. On the basis of the findings, the first positions have been occupied by an Australian Anne Venables with 4 papers. 2nd position clutches by Salvatore Valenti from Italy with 3 papers. Rest of them 22 authors have contributed 2 papers each ranked 3rd place. Top 24 ranked authors have been presented in table.5 and figure 2. Authors Rank (selected criteria 2 papers) Table.5. Author’s Rank Sr.No. Authors Publication Country Ranks 1 Anne Venables 4 Australia 1 2 Salvatore Valenti 3 Italy 2 3 Matti Tedre 2 Finland 3 4 Barry M. Lunt 2 USA 3 5 Joseph J. Ekstrom 2 USA 3 6 Reza Kamali 2 USA 3 7 Nicole A. Buzzetto-More 2 USA 3 8 Kevin R. Parker 2 USA 3 9 Gokhan Gercek 2 USA 3 10 Naveed Saleem 2 USA 3 11 Grace Tan 2 AUS 3 12 Han Reichgelt 2 USA 3 13 Mark Stansfield, 2 UK 3 14 Thomas Connolly 2 UK 3 15 Kenneth J. Klassen 2 Canada 3 16 Judy Sheard 2 Australia 3 17 Angela Carbone 2 Australia 3 18 Borislav Roussev 2 USA 3 19 Faouzi Bouslama, 2 UAE 3 20 Azzedine Lansari, 2 UAE 3 8 21 Akram Al-Rawi, 2 UAE 3 22 Cecilia Sik-Lányi 2 Hungry 3 23 Zsuzsanna Lányi 2 Hungry 3 24 Alessandro Cucchiarelli 2 Italy 3 Author’s Rank Figure.2. Top 24 Ranked Authors 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 Major Findings of the Study Following are the major findings of the study: 1. The journal of information technology education published 160 articles in six years from 2002 – 2007. The maximum number research articles were published in 2003 and 2007 with 32(20%), followed least number of research articles were published in 2004 with 21(13.12%). 30 research articles were published in 2006 and 23(14.37%) research articles were published in 2005.22(13.75%) research articles were published in 2002. It can be said with the passage the journal of information technology education will be more strengthen in future with new shape and new innovation. 2. As far as authorship collaboration for this journal of information technology education. It has been recognized maximum of collaborative works two authors in majority 64 (40%) , followed by single author with 44(27.5%). The present study disclosed 35(21.87%) articles have been contributed by three authors. Followed 12(2.5%) four authors. Followed by 2(1.25%) and 3(1.87%) five and more than five respectively. So, this study revealed the individual works are getting more power than the collaborative works. 9 3. The study revealed and recognized the length of articles of each year publication from 20022007.the present study acknowledged maximum number of articles 64(40%) range of 11-15, followed by 53(33.12%) research articles in range of 16-20 pages. Preceding 23(14.37%) research articles in length of 6-10 pages. This study revealed 19(11.87%) research articles in range of 21-30 pages and 01(0.62%) research articles in range of more than 1-5pages.its seem to be that coming days the research papers will be in comprehensive shape. 4. Data analysis of journal of information technology education published articles for country wise collaboration. It has been acknowledged that majority of research papers contributed by USA with 70(42.42%). Australia has contributed 29(17.57%) research papers. Followed by UK with 12(7.27%) and Finland with 8(4.84%). Furthermore, the data revealed that UAE have contributed 7(4.24%). Followed by Canada with 6(3.63%) and Italy 4(2.42%). Greece, New Zealand, Hungary and Denmark have collaborated with 2(1.21%) respectively. Rest of 15(9.09%) in total contribution. It’s obvious that every country is interested to publish their research papers in every part of globe. 5. The data has been analyzed and revealed the most productive authors in the field of information technology education. The data revealed the most prolific authors in the said area and chosen period. It has been identified that Anne Venables from Australia with 4 papers considered most prolific authors and followed by Italian Salvatore Valenti with 3 papers. It can be said that majority of research papers has been published individually. Conclusion The journal of information technology education (JITE) is peer reviewed online journal that is publishing articles on information technology and education throughout the globe.JITE is open access journal where everyone can get abstract and full text articles. The present study revealed that the relevant articles have been retrieved from online journal of information technology education. It’s seems that with the passage of time the JITE is getting more popular in IT professionals. The present study will be help to IT expert and its associated people who is interested to read get more fresh information in their respective field. The current study aim to disclose the research articles has been published in online JITE. There are 160 articles were published in six years from 2002 to 2007. The maximum articles were published in 2003 and 2007 32(20%) and least number of papers were published in 21(13.12%). Furthermore, author collaborations are concern two authors were in majority 64 (40%) and single authors contribution were 44(27.5%). Followed by papers length most of them 64(40%) range of 11-15 in range followed by 10 53(33.12%) were 6-10.preceeding by country rank USA topped with70 (42.42%) followed Australia with 29(17.57%). Furthermore, that data revealed that most prolific authors, so Anne Venables from Australia with 4 papers and Italian Salvatore Valenti with 3 papers. References 1. 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