Gender Discrepancy in Open Access LIS Research: A Case Study of Journal of Scientometric Research

Abstract

The present study deals in mapping the published literature in the reputed open access LIS journal, i.e. Journal of Scientometric Research. The research publications of the selected journal during 2019-2023 have been extracted from the Scopus database. Only the articles and review papers consisting of 249 documents are being considered for the study. The identification of gender has been performed using the Namsor software. The study assesses the annual growth of published literature on the basis of first authors’ gender, investigates the first authors’ productivity and citation received to the published literature through gender lens and revealed the number of single-authored research publications and their impact on gender perspective. The findings revealed that there is a significant gender gap in the research productivity and impact among the authors. Male authors are found to be dominant over female authors significantly in the research output and also in the case of citation. The female LIS professionals need to contribute more in the research productivity of reputed LIS journals and improve the quality of the research works to have more influence among the information seekers.