Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The aim was to measure and analyze the growth of academic literature, authors' productivity, the affiliation of authors with Institute and geographic locations published in Journal of Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (JLUMHS) related to any discipline of knowledge through bibliometric study which is used as a tool by library information sciences professionals.
METHODOLOGY: The statistical analysis in MS Excel 2010 was done during mid-April 2016 to mid-November, 2016. The data for study was collected & downloaded from websites of Journal of Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro Pakistan (http://www.lumhs.edu.pk/jlumhs) and PakMediNet (http://www.pakmedinet.com/).
RESULTS: During 2002 - 2015, JLUMHS published 14 volumes and 38 issues with 406 articles. The maximum and minimum articles published were 56 and 6 during the years 2009 and 2002, respectively. Majority of articles were written by more than one author (n=380, 93.59%) followed by 26 (6.40%) by the single author. The highest single institution was Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences Jamshoro / Hyderabad Pakistan to publish 208 (51.23%) articles through 14 volumes. A gender-wise comparison among the contributing authors revealed male numbered (n = 1142; 74.16%) higher than the female (n=398; 25.84%) out of a total of 406 articles published during 2002-2015.
CONCLUSION: This study reveals that JLUMHS has been nationally circulated and all most all publications have been contributed from the host country. The research productivity publish in this journal disclose that the research in the field of healthcare focuses on resources, services and their effect on quality activities for improving the status of medical care.