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Assistant Professor, Dept of Library & Information Science , Vani Mandir Building, Banasthali University, Rajasthan – 304 022, INDIA. E-mail: [email protected] A Scientometric Portrait of Professor M. P. Satija ------------------------------------------------------ -------------- N. K. Swain 1. Introduction To what follows the authors speaks about scientometric study of publications of Prof. M.P. Satija. Prof. Satija, the name is nearly synonymous with GNDU (Guru Nanak Dev University) among the LIS (Library and Information Science) professionals in India. Prof. M. P. Satija, the blue-eyed teacher has taken the name of GNDU in general and LIS profession in particular to such a height that only legends can do this. He is outstanding among 3rd generation of LIS teachers after S. R. Ranganathan and Krishan Kumar by virtue of his persuasive writings. Here publications are analysed by year, domain, collaboration trend, citation pattern of his writings, channels of communication used along with other important features of his publication style. As Kademani, Kumbar and Surwase opine, “the result indicate that temporal variations of his productivity to be a role model for the younger generation to follow, ( Kademani, Kumbar and Surwase 2008). Till the compilation of this study he has 348 publications to his credit in various key areas of library and information science. The study is structurally different from other biographical or biobibliographical pattern as it takes the readers to see the trend in writing patterns which has been calculated scientifically. This type of study is normally made under the caption of “bibliometric” or “scientometric”. So the author chooses to use the later one. There is a reason to believe in studies of this nature. In normal course studies are conducted on the Nobel laureates, founding fathers of specialised field of study, etc. Sometimes the credit and authenticity lies in citing the materials written by those scholars. 40/62

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A Scientometric Portrait of Professor M. P. Satija ------------------------------------------------------

-------------- N. K. Swain

1. Introduction

To what follows the authors speaks about scientometric study of publications of Prof.

M.P. Satija. Prof. Satija, the name is nearly synonymous with GNDU (Guru Nanak Dev

University) among the LIS (Library and Information Science) professionals in India.

Prof. M. P. Satija, the blue-eyed teacher has taken the name of GNDU in general and LIS

profession in particular to such a height that only legends can do this. He is outstanding

among 3rd generation of LIS teachers after S. R. Ranganathan and Krishan Kumar by

virtue of his persuasive writings.

Here publications are analysed by year, domain, collaboration trend, citation pattern of

his writings, channels of communication used along with other important features of his

publication style. As Kademani, Kumbar and Surwase opine, “the result indicate that

temporal variations of his productivity to be a role model for the younger generation to

follow, ( Kademani, Kumbar and Surwase 2008). Till the compilation of this study he has

348 publications to his credit in various key areas of library and information science.

The study is structurally different from other biographical or biobibliographical pattern as

it takes the readers to see the trend in writing patterns which has been calculated

scientifically. This type of study is normally made under the caption of “bibliometric” or

“scientometric”. So the author chooses to use the later one. There is a reason to believe in

studies of this nature. In normal course studies are conducted on the Nobel laureates,

founding fathers of specialised field of study, etc. Sometimes the credit and authenticity

lies in citing the materials written by those scholars.

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The specialised writings of these scholars further associate them in specialised domains.

As in the concluding part of the studies this author remarks Prof. M. P. Satija as a

Ranganathan scholar. Further these types of studies are branded in a different caption, if

we have a cursory look into the literature. Some evidences are found “biobibliometric

term was used first time by S. K. Sen and S. K.Gan (Sen and Gan). Further there are

numerous studies conducted by B.S. Kadamani, V.L.Kalyani, A Dhiman, M.M Angadi ,

B.K. Sen. These examples add authenticity to this study.

Many a times it is observed that these studies are carried out as a token of love for the

scholar chosen for study. As Sonwane and Vaishnav opine in one of their similar work

“as a token of respect to the renowned information professional who is acclaimed as an

educationist par excellence, information technologists …in the field of library and

information Science. (Sonwane and Vaisnav 2008 p.50). Endorsing the above view, the

author herewith shows a token of affection for a scholar who has devoted his entire life

for the concern of LIS profession.

Personal Account

Philosophers are of the opinion that biography of scholars should be read and taught as

learners get chance to learn and get motivated from it. Hence the author provides a brief

biography of Prof. M.P. Satija. As per the school certificate he was born on the 4th of May

1948 at Sangrur. Sangrur is a city a district town of the Indian state of Punjab. His parents

Smt. Rama Devi and Sri Ram Chandra migrated from Multan (now in Pakistan) When

enquired about his childhood and schooling days he honestly says, “my father was a

lowly paid police man, but he was literate and always wanted quality in my life. He

encouraged me for schooling. He was strict with my schooling. He would hardly allow

me to take a casual leave from school. This childhood habit continued in adult official

life. The schooling of children was not a priority in a community struggling for

settlement and security of being uprooted. I was modestly good at studies and passed

higher secondary 1965 by standing first in the school and the city (Satija 2008).”

Academic Achievements

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Prof. Satija got education, especially schooling in that period in which hardly any schools

were there. He passed his senior

secondary in the year 1965.And graduated in the year 1970 from Punjabi University,

Patiala, at the age of 22 with mathematics, physics, and chemistry , the royal combination

in modern sense. Just after his studies he was engaged in some petty jobs for pocket

money and eventually landed at the LIS profession. To quote M. P. Satija in his words

“by doing odd jobs intermittently (in between) in 1971, I passed B. Lib. I. Sc. from

Punjabi University, Patiala campus. And was awarded gold medal for standing first in the

University (Satija 2008).” He was the first gold medalist in LIS from the same university.

Just after basic education of LIS he worked for a year before getting into Guru Nanak

Dev University as Library Assistant (LA) in the month of February 1972. And he stayed

here with GNDU for good. As the days passed on he developed his skill and professional

proficiency, which shifted him to community of the teachers as a lecturer in the year

1984. Six years after, in 1991 he was promoted as reader and joined as a professor after 8

years in the year 1999.The dates and the work place, GNDU shows that he never moved

out of GNDU Amritsar for his basic bread and butter. Though in 1998 he was selected as

Professor and Head, Department of Library Science of Sagar University (now Dr Hari

Singh Gaur University, Sagar) but he did not move there.

During his long career he met some good people in the profession and learnt many things

from there lives and writings. Answering to the authors query about Ranganathan, he

says, “I never met Ranganathan, but was always impressed by his innovative monumental

contribution and his faith in the power of libraries (Satija 2008).” Truly a reader can

endorse his words by looking statistically at the contribution of Prof. Satija on the area

‘Ranganathan studies’. He wished he could meet Ranganathan and his obsession

diminished as Ranganathan passed away the year he joined the profession.

Among other writers whom he woos are Jese Hauk Shera, D.J. Foskett, Jack Mills, B.I.

Palmer and John P. Comaromi. Michael Comaromi developed his association with Prof.

Satija as a co-author in many weitings. In India the writings of Girija Kumar lured his

interest.

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Among other professional activities, publications in learned journals, writing book

reviews, conducting seminars and workshops, giving extended lectures in India and

abroad are prominent. His writings especially on knowledge organisation and its sub-

fields e.g., classification, cataloguing, subject headings and indexing has great impact

factors which can be seen in some of the tables provided in this paper. Lauding his role

for the profession many scholars have varieties of high opinions. Due to space constraints

the author is unable to provide the exhaustive list. A sample representative observation of

Joseph Miller through email is worth citing, “I have never had the pleasure of meeting

Professor Satija, but for many years we have had a regular and lively e-mail

correspondence. His work in the field in cataloging and classification has been

immensely valuable to the international cataloging community, and his special

involvement in subject analysis and his loving concern for the development of the Sears

List of Subject Headings has been of special importance to me. It is with sincere

gratitude that I congratulate Professor Satija on his retirement and salute his personal

contribution to the library profession and his continuation of the long history of

philosophical and innovative librarianship coming to us from India (Miller 2008).”

Joseph Miller is the Vice-President, Cataloguing and General references, H. H. Wilson.

New York. His praise for the Indian LIS doyen is quoted in the section ‘international

approbation’ of this essay.

Professional Career

The professional career of Prof is versatile, although his publications are more specialised

in knowledge organization. As a teacher he stamped the impression of a teacher par se.

He has produced a long list of 37 books published in India and abroad. With 123 papers

in scholarly journals along with extra efforts in producing a mammoth 158 book reviews,

drafted a couple of book chapters and other forms of writings.

The major corpus of his writings consists majorly journal writings and book reviews.

37 books on varieties of areas are also a good number, and show his expertise. The latest

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book by him has been published by Scarecrow Press of U.S.A. With a single bent of

mind he concentrates on the ‘knowledge organisation’. There won’t be any library

schools in India where Prof. Satija’s book is not recommended either for colon

classification or for Sears List of Subject Headings. His journal writings are also

multifarious. Almost all the Indian journals list his writings in their issues as the author

tipped earlier that extra effort has been exhibited by showing the list of book reviews in

dozen of journals. In the succeeding tables, readers can look at the exhaustive list of

journals in which Prof. Satija’s work has appeard. It is also observed that his writings on

popular issues of library use and reading habits are featured in local dailies.

If we don’t discuss about his association with Indian library schools it would be

injustice to his laudable role for the teaching and research of LIS. Library Schools

especially in northern part of India are obliged to Prof. Satija either for extension lectures,

membership of board of studies, or for special lectures .To provide a brief account of the

series of library schools of Indian universities may be as follows; University of Jammu, J

& K, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjabi University, Pataiala, Kurukshetra

University, Kurukshetra, University of Delhi, Delhi , IGNOU, Delhi, University of

Rajasthan Jaipur, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Dr. Ambedkar University,

Lucknow, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, niversity of

Kashmir , Srinagar (J & K) , AMU Aligarh, H.S Gaur University, Sagar, NEHU ,

Shillong etc. His association with foreign universities highlights his network and

expertise in the teaching profession. To count a few he was available with 44th FID

conference held at Helsinki, Finland , 5th International ISKO conference held in France

August 15-29, 1998. College of Librarianship, Wales, Aberystwyth, July 22- August 23,

1984. He also served as visiting fellow at Maastricht McLuhan University, the

Netherlands, July 21 –Oct 20 1999.This list provided above are a selected few as it

exhaustively runs into hundreds in number including visiting professor, University of

Kelaniya, Sri Lanka in 2005.

He has also been nominated for various organisations, journals and forums, to list

a few; nominated member of Advisory Board, UDC consortium, the Hague, Editorial

Board Punjab University, Lahore (Pakistan). Journal of ICT and Human Development

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(USA), Library Herald, Delhi. He is also trustee of Prof. Kaula Endowment in Lib & Inf

Sc. (H.Q Tenali, Andhra Pradesh). He also served as a consultant for the national

bibliography project for the National Library of Sri Lanka.

5. International Admiration

Prof. M. P. Satija’s works has earned him international reputation, especially in

the field of ‘knowledge organisation’. I received many letters from international LIS

communities praising critically Satija’s work. In India also he has great number of fans

mostly teachers as they come often across Satija’s book while lecturing the students .I

strongly feel to site some selected Indian and international praises for his work and few

studies about the ranking of authors on the basis of his writings.

In a letter to Prof. Satija, Allen Kent the editor Encyclopedia of Library and

Information Science, Pennsylvania, USA acknowledged on the receipt of his article

‘Book Number and Call Number’ as , “Masterful treatise, and I am very pleased to have

it in the Encyclopedia.” (Kent 1987). On many occasion he was invited to deliver lectures

on special occasion of international associations which a few Indians have avail this

opportunities. Dorothy McGarry, chairman of IFLA section on classification and

indexing invited Prof Satija to present a paper during the IFLA conference, New Delhi in

the year 1992. I would like to present the few lines of excerpts, “you are highly

recommended to us for this topic because of our reputation for having excellent

knowledge of the subject, and because members of the standing committee have read

your writings and been impressed by them. I hope that you agree to present a paper in

New Delhi.” (McGarry 1991). In some occasion the readers may find the translations of

some of Satija’s work for non-native English speaking European countries. His works are

a-must-useful for LIS schools. A formal invitation was sent by Aida Slavic, School of

Library and Information Studies, University College London, for Satija’s consent of

translating his work into Russian language. The letter reads as,” I had the pleasure to read

your excellent and through review of the UDC, pocket edition in the last issue of

knowledge organisation. In my country (Croatia) UDC is the most common system and

there is a great deal of interest in writings on this subject. I wonder if it would be possible

for you to grant us permission to translate and publish your review in the above

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mentioned special issue of he journal (Croatian Library Association Journal devoted to

indexing and classification)” (Slavic 2001). He was pleased and consented the

permission. By doing this he joined in the group of non-Croatian stalwarts. Others non-

Croatian authors in this issue will be I.C McIlwaine, V. Broughton, D. Bawder, G.

Riesthuis and Ines Cordeiro” (Slavic 2001). In another occasion I happy to see an

appreciation letter by Birger Hjørland. Birger Hjørland is the one among a few in the

world whose ontological writings imbibed into LIS concepts have helped many

researchers to feel go-ahead with their work. In the words of Hjørland, “I can see now,

that you don’t have deep theoretical involvements with classification and philosophy, and

I would be very pleased to have my book reviewed in KO or else where (e. g., Libri) by

you” (Hjørland 1999).

Prof. Satija sent his work on sears list of subjects heading to Josheph Miller, who

then the editor of sears list on subject Headings, H.W Wilson Company, New York. After

reading critically Miller replied, “I find your workbook for sears excellent throughout,

and I am very impressed with the fine scholarship behind it. I have found almost nothing

to take exception to.” (Miller 1999). In the latter part this essay, the readers may find the

enormous research and studies conducted by Satija on “S. R. Ranganathan.’ An area

which most scholars are virtually ignoring. But the author would like to show an

appreciation by an LIS heavyweight Eugene Garfield, “ Just a short note to tell you I

really enjoyed reading your article,” Sources of Research on Ranganathan, ” which

appeared in the July 1987 issue of international library Review “(Garfield 1987).

Ranking as an Author

In the year 1992, a study conducted by A.R. Sethi and Neena Kapoor about the

ranking of the LIS authors. To quote these scholars, “the author index reveals that there

are 30 authors whose contributions number 20 or more during the period 1970-1990.

Among them 10 most prolific writers were: A Neelameghan, P.N Kaula, Gopinatha, I.N

Sengutpa, G. Bhattacharya, M.P. Satija, Krishnan Kumar…” (Sethi & Kapoor 1992). The

above data show the then study reveals Prof. Satija was ranked 7th in the fleet of

prominent writers. Rekha and Parameswaran’s study shows that “in a bibliometric study

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of ISKO Journal Knowledge Organisation (KO) for the period of 1988-1999, Satija was

ranked 11th as an author at the world level in which he was lone Indian among 14 most

prolific writers in the KO (Rekha and Parameswaran 2002) In this regard I would like to

provide a different study of LISA for the period of 1994-1998 conducted b K. G. Smitha

under the guidance of Prof M. Parameswaran at Calicut University. Satija was ranked

first among the Indian authors with 26 contributions followed by A. Neelameghan (17)

and M.A Gopinath (15) (Source ILA Newsletter Vol.16 (8) 2000 p.8).

The author would be happy if the readers would peep into the works and

acclamation of a fellow Indian library scientist.

Objectives of the Study

The objectives for this study are formulated as given below. These are generated from

numerous studies of the similar type e.g., Sen and Gan (1990), Lancaster (1991), Kalyane

(1994), Leydesdroff (1995), Kayane and Vidyasagar Rao (1995), Dodgso and Hinczc

(2000), Vaishnav (2003), Sonwane and Vaishnav (2008);

(a) Authorship credit – credit given to an author of a collaborative paper in terms

of number.

(b) Collaboration co-efficient – The ratio of number of collaborative papers to

the total number of papers published.

(c) Fifty percentile ages –The number of years during which 50% of the papers

were published starting from the year of publication of first paper.

(d) Productivity co-efficient – Ratio of percentile age to total productivity age.

(e) Publication concentration – Ratio of 50 percentage of the number of channels

accounting for half of the papers to the total number of channels used.

(f) Publication density – Frequency of papers per channel.

(g) Authorship status – Position of author- first, second and third etc. in a paper.

(h) Core collaborator – Those authors who have made substantial contributions

(in terms of number of papers) in association with principal author.

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(i) Productivity life – The count from the year in which first paper by an author

was published till the latest year of publication.

(j) Publication outlets – The sources preferentially chosen by the author to

communicate results of research.

Materials and Methods

This paper analyses curriculum vitae of Prof. M P Satija by using scientometric

techniques. When I asked for his CV, Prof Satija generously supplied the needed

documents and whenever the author required any types of information he cooperated and

used provide information by e-mail. The present study is limited to 348 papers by Prof

Satija (1978-2008). The bibliographic activities are counted and analysed by regular

procedure e.g., to determine the domain, authorship, journals and citation. The Google

Scholar database is used for citation determinations of his publications.

Table: 1 Total publication outlets

Publication Outlets No of Research Papers Percentage (%) Book Chapters 25 7.18Book Reviews 158 45.40Books 37 10.63Festschrift Volumes 5 1.43Journal Articles 123 35.34Total 348 99.98

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Total Publication Outlate

Journal Articles, 123

Festschrift Volumes, 5

Books , 37

Book Reviews, 158

Book Chapters, 25

Table 1 shows the main data for study. The total numbers of publications are 348. Where

ever the data are required for analysis the data is provided with the indication of data

type. In some cases the data type ‘book reviews’ are excluded for analysis.

Results and Discussion

Yearwise Publication Productivity

Table 2: Yearwise frequency of publications

Year Total Publications Cumulative

Productivity

Age of MPS (born 1948)

1978 3 3 1 301979 3 6 2 311980 0 6 3 321981 1 7 4 331982 4 11 5 341983 6 17 6 351984* 7 24 7 361985 16 40 8 371986 22 62 9 381987 18 80 10 391988 17 97 11 401989 13 110 12 411990 22 132 13 421991** 11 143 14 43

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1992 20 163 15 441993 15 178 16 451994 7 185 17 461995 13 198 18 471996 18 216 19 481997 17 233 20 491998 18 251 21 501999*** 17 268 22 512000 13 281 23 522001 8 289 24 532002 11 300 25 542003 8 308 26 552004 14 322 27 562005 9 331 28 572006 6 337 29 582007 7 344 30 592008 3 348 31 60

*lecturer **Reader ***Professor

Table. 2 show the year wise frequency distribution of Prof Satija’s writings. During 31

years (1978-208) years of his productive life, 1978 is the first productive year at the

chronological age of 30. He has published highest number of (22) research papers during

1986, 1990 at the productive age of 9 and 13 and the chronological age of 38 and 42

respectively. At the productive age of 16 and the chronological age of 45 he attained fifty

percentile age.

Fig. 1. Publication productivity of Prof Satija

8.2 Domainwise contributions

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Fig. 2 : Domainwise contributions of publications

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followed by ‘Ranganathan studies (20 %).

Outstanding Collaboratorship

Table: 3 Outstanding CollaboratorsSatija, MP (Mentor) 348Chan, Lois Mai 1994-1996 (3) Comaromi, John P 1988–1996 (10) Haynes, Dorothy 2008 Joan, S. Mitchell 1994 - 1996 (3) Joshi, Navin 2007Malhan, I. V 1989-2001 (2) Navalani, K. 1990Prytherch , R.J. 1986 Raghavan , K.S. 1998 Sharma , R.K. 1992Shokeen, Ashu 2001

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Singh , Bharpur 1996 Singh , Surinder 1990 Singh, Amrik 1994 Singh, K P 2004- 2008 (4) Singh, Sewa 1996 Singh, sukhdev 1995-1998 (2) Tilwani, T. D 2001 Vashishth, C. P. 2004 Others* 2002 Others* 2002Others* 2002Others* 2004Others* 2006Total : 25

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Table 3 and fig. 3 show the collaboratorship with Prof Satija. Total 25 collaborators are

visible in his writings of which John P. Comaromi is single largest author with maximum

(10) times collaboration followed by K P Singh having (4) times association with him.

Joint authorship is 18 in number and multiple authorship is (27) and rest (307) is single

authored by Prof M P Satija himself. The following data infers that he believes in single

rather are joint or multiple authorship. This is the brevity in writing of Prof Satija.

Fig. 3. Scholars association with Prof M P Satija

8.4 Types of Documents Preferred for Communication

Table 4: Distribution of publications in various conferences/seminars/workshop

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Conference/Seminars/Workshops

No. of Research Papers Percentage (%)

CALIBER 2 3.92DRTC 1 1.96FID 5 9.80IASLIC Conferences 2 3.92IATLIS Conferences 4 7.83ILA Conference 4 7.83International Conferences 6 11.76ISKO 2 3.92NACLIN 1 1.96Seminars (National/Regional) 18 35.29 SIS 2 3.92Workshops 3 5.88Total 51 97.99

Table 5 List of Journals Preferred for Publications by Published by Prof M P

Satija

S. No Journals Reviews

Papers Total %

1. Asian libraries 13 2 14 4.982. Cataloguing and Classification quarterly 0 1 1 0.353 CLIS observer 0 5 5 1.774 Daily Ajit (Daily Newspaper) 0 2 2 0.715 Daily Jag Bani 0 1 1 0.356 DESIDOC Bulletin 1 3 4 1.427 DLIBCOM 0 1 1 0.358 Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology 9 2 11 3.919 Herald of Library Science 14 16 30 10.6710 IASLIC bulletin 1 2 3 1.0611 The Island (Daily Newspaper, Sri Lanka) 0 1 1 0.3512 ILA Bulletin 5 2 7 2.4913 In int. community & connection &

Education 2 0 2 0.71

14 Indian Book Chronicle 3 2 5 1.7715 Indian Journal of Information, Library and

Society.0 1 1 0.35

16 Indian Journal of Technical Education 0 1 1 0.3517 Indian Librarian 1 1 0.3518 Information Management 1 0 1 0.3519 Information Management Report 2 3 5 1.7720 International Library Movement 4 3 7 2.4921 International classification 15 4 19 6.76

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22 International Information and Library Review

4 0 4 1.42

23 International Library Review 0 1 1 0.3524 Journal of Information Management and

Scientometrics 0 1 1 0.35

25 Journal of Library and Information Science 4 3 7 2.4926 Journal of Scientometrics & Information

Management0 1 1 0.35

27 Sampark 0 2 2 0.7128 Knowledge Organization (formerly Int.

Classification) 23 6 19 6.76

29 Lib progress International 3 2 5 1.7730 Lib sc with a slant to documentation and

information studies0 1 1 0.35

31 Lib. Today 0 1 1 0.3532 Libraries and Culture 0 1 1 0.3533 Library Times International 9 4 13 4.6234 Library Herald 23 11 34 12.0935 Library Review 2 0 2 0.7136 Libri 1 8 9 3.2037 Lucknow Librarian 1 5 6 2.1338 Managing Information 1 0 1 0.3539 Outlook on Research libraries 1 7 8 2.8440 Pakistan Journal of Library & Information

Science1 0 1 0.35

41 Reference Service Review 1 0 1 0.3542 Reference Review 3 0 3 1.0643 Review Projector 2 0 2 0.7144 Rilisar bulletin 0 4 4 1.4245 Samajik Vigyan Patrika (Punjabi Univ) 0 1 1 0.3546 SPAN 0 1 1 0.3547 SRELS Journal of Information

Management0 6 6 2.13

48 Termnet News 0 1 1 0.3549 Third World libraries 2 1 3 1.0650 University News 5 2 7 2.4951 Vidyarthi (Sri Lanka) 0 1 1 0.35

Total 158 123 281

The table 5 shows the break up of journals in which the writings of Prof Satija have

appeared. There is a long list of journals chosen by him which runs into 51 including a

couple of daily newspapers in which Sri Lankan dailies are also included. The ‘Library

Herald’ (12.09 %) and ‘Herald of Library Science’ (10.67 %) are two journals which

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concentrate Prof Satija’s writings most. Among the foreign journals ‘Asian Libraries’ and

‘Knowledge organisation’ have the largest claim to have Prof. Satija’s writings

respectively.

Table 6: List of books by Prof Satija

S.Nos. Title Year1

Satija, M. P. (2008) Book Numbers: Indian and Cutter, New Delhi: Viva Books.

2008

2Satija, M. P. and Haynes, Dorothy (2008) .Users Guide to the Sears List of Subject Headings, Lanham: MD (USA): Scarecrow Press, 2008.

2008

3Satija, M. P. (2007) The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System .Oxford: UK, Chandos Publishing.

2007

4Satija, M. P. (2005). Colon Vargikaran: Praktikal Guide. Patiala: Madaan Publisher.

2005

5Satija, M. P. (2004). A Dictionary of Knowledge Organization Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University.

2004

6Satija, M. P. (2004). Exercises in 22nd ed of the Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi; ESS ESS.

2004

7 Vashishth (C P) and Satija (M P), (Eds). (2004). Library and Information Profession in India: Reflections and Redemptions: Festschrift in Honour of Dr. P S G Kumar (Vols. 1-2). New Delhi: B. R. Publishing Corporation.

2004

8 Satija, M. P. Exercises in 19th edition of the Dewey Decimal classification. New Delhi: Concept publishing Co. 2001. 176p. ISBN 81-7022-878-6.

2001

9 Shokeen, Ashu, Malhan, I. V., Tilwani, T. D., Satija, M. P., (Eds) (2001). Information: Management, Sources and Other Studies: Essays in honour of Professor K. Navlani (Vols. 1-2). New Delhi: Ess Ess .

2001

10 Satija, M P. (1998). Exercises in the 21st Edition of Dewey Decimal Classification. Delhi: Ess Ess.

1998

11 Chan, Lois Mai, John P. Comaromi, Joan S, Mitchell and Mohinder P. Satija. (1996). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide (2nd ed). Albany, NY: Forest Press, A Division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

1996

12 Navalani, K., Satija, M.P., (Eds). (1996). Library and information services: Emerging Challenges: Essays in honour of Professor N.N. Gidwani. Jaipur: RBSA

1996

13 Satija, M P. and Singh, Sewa (1996). Sandharabh Ate Soochana: Sarit ik Jaan Pehchan. Patiala: Punjabi University Publication

1996

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Bureau. 14 Classification décimal de Dewey: Guide pratique, par Lois Mai

Chan, John P. Comaromi, et Mohinder P. Satija; traduction de Raymonde Couture-Lafleur. Montréal (Québec): Les Éditions ASTED Inc., 1995.

1995

15 Satija M. P. (1984). Manual of Practical Colon Classification.(3rd

Ed). New Delhi: Sterling. 1995

16 Satija, M P. and Agrawal, S. P. (1995). Book Numbers: Some Indian Methods (2nd rev. ed). New Delhi: Reliance.

1995

17 Satija, M P and Singh, Amrik (1994). Bibliography of Colon Classification, 1930-1993. New Delhi: M. D. Publications.

1994

18 Chan, Lois Mai, John P. Comaromi, and Mohinder P. Satija. (1994). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide . Albany, NY: Forest Press.

1994

19 Satija, M P. (Ed). (1993). Colon classification, 7th Edition: Some Perspectives. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.

1993

20 Navalani, K. and Satija, M.P. (Eds). (1993). Petit Petals: A Tribute to Ranganathan. New Delhi: ABC. Publishing.

1993

21 Satija, M P (1992). S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. New Delhi: Aditya.

1992

22 Satija, M P (1992). S R Ranganathan, 1892- 1972. New Delhi : Ess Ess.

23 Satija, M P (1992). Beyond Classification: Book Numbers. New Delhi: Ess Ess.

1992

24 Satija, M P (1992). Prayogik Dubindu Vargikaran (R.K.Sharma, Trans.) Delhi: Ess Ess. (Original work published 1989).

1992

25 Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1990). Exercises in the 20th

Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification. (2nd ed). . New Delhi: Sterling,

1990

26 Satija M. P. (1989). Manual of Practical Colon Classification. (2nd

Ed) . New Delhi: Sterling1989

27 Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1989). Dewey Decimal Classification: History and Current Status. Dhaka: Academic Publishers.

1989

28 Satija, M P. (1989). Colon classification 7th edition: A practical Introduction. New Delhi: ESS ESS.

1989

29 Satija, M P. and Agrawal, S. P. (1989). Book Numbers: Some Indian Methods. New Delhi: Concept.

1989

30 Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1988). Introduction to the Practice of Dewey Decimal Classification (2nd. rev. ed). New Delhi: Sterling.

1988

31 Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1987). Introduction to the Practice of Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi: Sterling.

1987

32 Satija, M P. (1987). A Primer of Ranganathan’s Book Number. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.

1987

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33 Satija M. P. (1984). Manual of Practical Colon Classification. New Delhi: Sterling.

1984

34 Satija M. P. (1984). Colon Vergikaran Practical (in Punjabi) Chandigarh: Punjab State University Text Book Board.

1984

35 Satija M. P. and Comaromi, John P. (1983). Brevity of Notation with Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi: Metropolitan Book.

1983

36 Satija M. P. (1979). An Epistle to Dean Shera on the Brevity of Notation in Colon Classification. Amritsar: Rajat.

1979

37 Satija M. P. (1978). Ranganathan: Method and Style. New Delhi: Kalyani.

1978

Prof M P Satija as a Research Guide

Table 7: List of doctoral awards with supervision of Prof Satija

S. No. Name of researcher

Title

1. Sharma, Babita (2006)

India on an emerging information society with special reference to its political , administration, cyber laws and new role of librarian thereof and exploratory study”

2. Ahmed, Tahir (2007)

A Survey of the Resources and Services of the Engineering Colleges Libraries of Punjab by Tahir Ahmed

3. Singh, K P (2007)

K.P. Singh “Information seeking behavior of Agriculture Scientists working in select ICAR institutions in Delhi and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana: A Study”.

Being a lone worker he is not enthusiastic about guiding research. He says it is difficult to

find able and sincere students.

Citation Analysis of Publications of Prof M P Satija

The search term M P Satija in Google Search Engine hits 10,600 entries and the same

term results in web search on Yahoo display the hits higher than Google is 15,600. These

two examples show the popularity of Prof M P Satija. But for the citations we choose

Google Scholar as a citation index database. We could have provided simultaneously the

Scopus database results. Due to the unavailability of licence we chose only one database.

Google Scholar has been introduced as a research oriented web search engine. Google

Scholar not only provides full text searching of such material, but also extracts formal

citations from the material. This means that Google Scholar acts as a citation index as

well as a search engine. Also, Google Scholar extracts citations to print materials that

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have been referenced in web publications. This means that the database provides access

to some material in the conventional print environment, as well as to web-based material.

Table 8: Citation to the publication of Prof M P Satija as per Google Scholar database on June 9, 2008.

S. No. Prof Satija’s Writings Citations

1 Chan, Lois Mai, Comaromi, John P., Mitchell, Joan S and Satija, Mohinder P. . (1996). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide (2nd ed). Albany, NY: Forest Press, A Division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

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2 Kalyane, V. L., Sagar, A. A Kumar, V Kumar and Mohan, L. (2004) Librametric Mapping of the Libraries, Archives & Information Technology: R & D During 1970-1990 In Vashishth, C. P. and Satija, M. P. (Eds). Library and information profession in India: Reflections and redemptions: Festschrift in honour of Dr. P S G Kumar (Vols. 1-2). New Delhi: B. R. Publishing Corporation.

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3 Chan, Lois Mai, Comaromi, John P., Mitchell, Joan S and Satija, Mohinder P. . (1996). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide Albany, NY: Forest Press, A Division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

5

4 Satija, M.P. (1999). Doctoral Research In Library And Information Science In India: Some Observations and Comments. Libri 49: 236–242 .

4

5 Satija, M.P (1985). Colon classification: literature analysis (1970-1984). International classification 12.3: 133-142.

4

6 Satija, M. P. (2000). Library Classification: an Essay in Terminology. Knowledge Organisation 27 (4): 221 – 229.

3

7 Satija, M. P. (Aug1987). History of book Number. International Classification 14 .2. : 70-76.

3

8 Navalani, K. and Satija, M.P. (Eds). (1993). Petit Petals: A Tribute to Ranganathan. New Delhi: ABC. Publishing.

2

9 Satija, M. P. (2003). The Five Laws in Information Society and Virtual Libraries Era. SRELS Journal Of Information Management

2

10 Satija, M. P. (1993). A Deserted Bastion: Classification and Indexing in India: A State of the Art. Intr. cat. & Bib. Control 22.3: 51-54.

2

11 Satija, M. P. (1989). Colon Classification: a Practical IntroductionNew Delhi: Ess Ess.

2

12 Satija, M. P. (1988). FID-88 Pre conference seminar on computer applications of UDC. International Classification 15. 3: 149-150.

2

13 Satija M. P. (1978). Ranganathan: Method and Style. New Delhi: Kalyani.

2

14 Satija, M P (1992). S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. 2

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New Delhi: Aditya. 15 Comaromi, John P. and Satija, Mohinder P. (1988). Revising the

Dewey Decimal Classification. International Classification 15.1. 1988: 17-20 .

2

16 Satija, M. P. (1996) Birth Centenary Literature on Ranganathan, 1991-1994: A Review. Asian Libraries 5.2: 65-76.

1

17 Satija, M. P. (1997). Future and Revision of Colon Classification. Knowledge Organization 24.1: 18-23.

1

18 Satija, M. P. (1997). Fifty Years of Doctoral Research in Classification an Indexing in India. Library Herald 36.2: 80-87.

1

19 Satija, M. P. (January 1998). Whom Do We Serve: Doctoral Research in Library and Information Service in India. DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology 18. 1: 19-24.

1

20 Chan, Lois Mai, John P. Comaromi, Joan S, Mitchell and Mohinder P. Satija. (1996). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide (2nd ed). Albany, NY: Forest Press, A Division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

1

21 Satija, M. P. (March 1989). Sources of Indian Library and Information Science Dissertations. Libri 39 (1): 71-78.

1

22 Satija, M. P. (1990). Book Number and Call Number. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Vol. 45). Ed. Allen Kent et al. New York: Marcel Dekker: 18-45.

1

Total 80

Table 8: List of Papers Citing Prof Satija’s writings

Here is the list of papers citing Prof M P Satija’s as per Google Scholar database as on June 9, 2008. Google scholar search results in 829 entries for M P Satija.

S No Paper No. of Times

1 Sarkhel, J. K. (2006). Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS education in Indian Universities: Issues and perspectives. In C. Khoo, D. Singh & A.S. Chaudhry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conferenceon Library & Information Education & Practice 2006 (A-LIEP 2006), Singapore, 3-6 April 2006 (pp. 427-431). Singapore: School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University.

1

2 Singh, S.P. (Dec 2003). Library and Information Science Education in India: Issues and Trends Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science. 8.2 .2003: 1-17

1

3 Vizine-Goetz, Diane. (1997). OCLC Internet Cataloging Project Colloquium Position Paper Using Library Classification Schemes for Internet Resources by OCLC Office of Research and Special Projects

1

4 Jenkins, C. and Inman, D. (2000). Adaptive Automatic 1

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Classification on the Web. 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'00): 504

5 Krowne, Aaron and Fox, Edward A (2002). Architecture for Multischeming in Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access Berlin : Springer.

1

6 Lagoze, Carl (June 8, 2000). Accommodating Simplicity and Complexity in Metadata: Lessons from the Dublin Core Experience Cornell University. Presented at Seminar on Metadata Organized by Archief School, Netherlands Institute for Archival Education and Research.

1

7 McIlwaine, C. The Future of Classification Systems Classification Schemes Consultation with Users and Cooperation Between Editors. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 24. 1/2: 81–95.

1

8 Claudius Hörth (Oct 2002) Klassifikation für Digitale Bibliotheken:Ein ösungsvorschlag für die digitale Bibliothek „Information und Medien“ der Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart.

1

9 Juznic, P and Urbanija, J. (2003). Developing Research Skills in Library and Information Science Studies. Library Management, 24. 6-7: 324-331.

1

10 Juznic , Primoz and Urbanija , Joze (2003) . Developing Research Skills in Library and Information Science Studies. Library Management 24.6/7: 324-331.

1

11 Alimohammadi, Dariush and Sajjadi, Mahshid. ( 2007) . What Our Schools are Named? : An Investigation Among Information Leaders. VINE 37. 4 : 532 – 546.

1

12 Ameen , Kanwal (May 2007) . Issues of Quality Assurance (QA) in LIS Higher Education in Pakistan. World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council 19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa.http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/index.htm June 9, 2008

1

13 MacCall, Steven L. (2008) Welcome to LS 500! Organization of Information University of Alabama. LIS Syllabus .Retrieved on June 10, 2008.

1

14 Sarkhel, J. K. (2006). Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS education in Indian Universities: Issues and perspectives. In C. Khoo, D. Singh & A.S. Chaudhry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice 2006 (A-LIEP 2006), Singapore, 3-6 April 2006: 427-431.

1

15 McMenemy, David (2007) .Ranganathan's Relevance in the 21st Century.Library Review 56. 2: 97-101.

1

16 Slavić Aida (2004) .UDC Translations: a 2004 Survey Report and Bibliography. University College London, School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, United Kingdom.

1

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17 Slavic, Aida (2006). Use of the Universal Decimal Classification: a Worldwide Survey. Journal of Documentation 64.2: 211-228

1

18 Kon , H and Hoey (2005). Leveraging Collective Knowledge Proceedings of the 14th ACM on international conference on Information and knowledge management 2005. 560 - 567

1

19 Beghtol, Clare (1995) Facets’ As Interdisciplinary Undiscovered Public Knowledge: S.R. Ranganathan In India And L. Guttman in Israel. Journal of Documentation 51. 3: 194 – 224.

1

20 McMenemy , David (2007) Ranganathan's Relevance in the 21st

Century. Library Review 56.2: 97-101.1

21 de Grolier , Éric . (1988) Taxilogie et classification un essai de mise au point et quelques notes de prospective Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France (BBF) n° 6: 468-489.

2

22 DuBoff , Bruce (5 May 2003) The Past in the Future: A Content Analysis Applying S. R. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science to Libraries and Information Services in Young Adult Science Fiction Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Rowan University.

2

23 Buckland, Michael and Liu, Ziming (1995) History Of Information Science Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 30: 385-416.

3

22 H Burrows, Suresh R (1998). Digital Library Approaches to Resource Discovery in Earth and Space Science . J. Strobl and C. Best (Eds.) Proceedings of the Earth Observation and Geo-Spatial Web and Internet Workshop '98 = Salzburger Geographische Materialien 27 Instituts für Geographie der ...

1

24 Möller, G. et al. 1999. Automatic classification of the World Wide Web using Universal Decimal Classification. In: Online Information 1999: the proceedings of the 23rd International Online Information Meeting. London, 7–9 December: 231–237.

1

25 Thompson, R., Shafer, K., and Vizine-Goetz, D. (1997). Evaluating Dewey Concepts as a Knowledge Base for Automatic Subject Assignment Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital Libraries Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States :37– 46.

1

26 Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden and Jon Wallis (April 1998) . Automatic classification of Web resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classification. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 30. 1-7 : 646-648

1

Total 30

h- index of Prof Satija

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The h-index is an index that quantifies both the actual scientific productivity and the

apparent scientific impact of a scientist. The index is based on the set of the scientist's

most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other people's

publications. The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a group of

scientists, such as a department or university or country. The index was suggested by

Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at University of California, San Diego ( UCSD), as a tool for

determining theoretical physicists' relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch

index or Hirsch number. The h-index has yet to supplant older metrics. Jorge Hirsch

(2005a, 2005b) recently proposed a new research performance indicator that is designed

for application at the micro level. The Hirsch index, or h index, quantifies as a single-

number criterion the scientific output of a single researcher. Hirsch’s (2005b) index is an

original and simple new measure incorporating both quantity and visibility of

publications (van Raan 2006).

The Index is based on the distribution of citations received by a given scholar’s total

publications. Hirsch writes:

A scientist has index ph if his/her papers have at least h citations each and the other (

hN p − ) papers have at most h citations each.

So a researcher with an index of h has published h papers with at least h citations each.

SO h-index is the result of the balance between the number of publications and the

number of citations per publication. “The index is designed to improve upon simpler

measures such as the total number of citations or publications, to distinguish truly

influential scientists from those who simply publish many papers. The index is also not

affected by single papers that have many citations. The index works properly only for

comparing scientists working in the same field; citation convention differs widely among

different fields” (Kademani, Kumbar, and Surwase 2008 p. 46).

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Prof M P Satija’s h- index is 4, graphically given in fig 4. Out of 22 papers 4 papers have

received 4 citations each.

Conclusion and Suggestions

Study of Prof. M.P. Satija’s publication productivity 31 years (1978-2008) shows that

during which he has published 348 papers including journal articles book reviews books

and book chapters. It indicates his publication productivity increased after his 50

percentile age i.e., from 1993 onwards. There are 25 collaborators. His papers are

scattered in 26 scholarly journals, which have received 30 citations as Google scholar

database hints the quality and versatility of the papers. His enormous contribution on

Ranganathan studies’ is enough to say that he is a ‘Ranganathan Scholar’.

Acknowledgement

I sincerely acknowledge the assistance rendered by my wife Tamishra Swain who could

helped me in editing the write up; equally thankful I am to Prof. Jagtar Singh to publish

such a long paper and thanks are due for Prof M P Satija for consenting and making

available the needed the material for this study.

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