An Altmetric Analysis of Top Journals in Library and Information Science

The paper examines the citations as well as altmetrics attention score of five Library and Information Science journals indexed by Google Scholar Metrics 2019. The study results revealed that JAIS&T journal got 1st position with h5-Index. it was also found that mostly used altmetrics source in LIS research was Mendeley (1998), followed by Twitter (113) and Blog (6) respectively. The highest altmetrics presence was seen in this study “Bibliometrix: An R-tool for Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis” article with (50) Altmetrics Attention Score.