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Subject mapping of Punjabi language books: a bibliometric study

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Title Subject mapping of Punjabi language books: a bibliometric study
 
Creator Chander, Harish
Singh, K.P
 
Subject Punjabi publications
Subject trends
Bibliometrics
Decadal growth
Punjabi language
 
Description 251-256
The study presents the subject analysis of Punjabi language books written in ‘Gurmukhi’ script from 2004-2013 covering different fields of arts and humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, and technology. The distribution of major subjects and their subdivisions were based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 22nd edition. The information centres, and academic institutions such as universities from the different parts of Northern India, having a good collection of Punjabi language books were the focus for data collection. The Punjabi language books publishers and several websites/resources were also consulted to get the required information. A total number of 7997 Punjabi books on different subjects published during the period 2004-2013 have been studied. The largest number of books in Punjabi [5587 (69.9%)] is published in the field of literature.

Subject analysis, decadal growth, analysis of books translations from different Indic and foreign languages to the Punjabi language are also included in the study. A growth rate of 29.37% in the publication of Punjabi books is seen during the decade.
 
Date 2021-01-15T10:04:34Z
2021-01-15T10:04:34Z
2020-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/55972
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.67(4) [December 2020]