Fourth Fifth International Conference on Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2024)
 

 

Web Citations in Indian Theses: Exploring the Use of Web Citations by Social Scientists
B T Sampath Kumar, Dhanaraj
Professor and Chairman, Project Director, Major Research Project, ICSSR Department of Library and Information Science, Tumkur University Tumakuru, Karnataka, INDIA., Research Assistant, Major Research Project ICSSR, Department of Library and Information S
Abstract: Web sources offer numerous advantages for academic research and allow researchers to connect with other researchers. This study explores the percentage of web sources cited in the selected Indian Social Science theses. Which web citation domain was the most frequently used by Indian social scientists? Further, the study also identified which file format of web citations is commonly used by social scientists. For this purpose, 433 theses in the selected five subjects were downloaded from the Shodhganga repository, and the Web references cited in the theses were extracted. It was found that 20.45% of references were web citations. A higher number of web citations are found in Journalism and Mass Communication theses (30.91%), followed by Sociology (24.52%) and Library and Information Science (30.70%). The most popular domain was.com/.co among the Social Sciences Scientists 2631 (22.01%). The more significant number of web citations have a path depth of 2 (50.94%).
Keywords: Web Citations, Indian Theses, Social Scientists, and References Web Citations in Indian Theses: Exploring the Use of Web Citations by Social Scientists
DOI:https://doi.org/10.6025/stm/2024/5/39-50
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