JLIS abstracts

IJARI (SR) & KANNAPPANAVAR (BU)

 

IJARI (SR) & KANNAPPANAVAR (BU). Information Use Pattern of Indian Clinical Psychologists: A Citation Study. 15,2;1990;179-89

All the citations appended to 155 articles published in three volumes (V9-11; 1982-84) of Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology have been analyzed to identify the journal most profusely cited by Clinical Psychology have been analyzed to identify the journal most profusely cited by Indian clinical psychologists. A list of 46 journals each having been cited at least five times, is prepared, and Ind. Jr. Clinical Psychology and Ind. Jr. Psychiatry occupied I and II rank respectively. Types of document used and their quantitative data are presented. Geographical distribution of cited journals are given and the chronological scattering of citation are presented in the tabular form, and finds that the current literature is most useful for Indian clinical psychologists.