17 DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2019, pp. 17-22, DOI : 10.14429/djlit.39.1.13691  2019, DESIDOC Received : 9 October 2018, Revised : 19 November 2018 Accepted : 30 November 2018, Online published : 14 January 2019 Foreign Authorship Pattern in Selected Library and Information Science Journals of India Dhiman Mondal #,* , and Arabinda Maity $ # Ananda Mohan College, 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Kolkata- 700 009, India $ Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata-700 073, India * E-mail: dhiman.bon@gmail.com AbStrAct Foreign authorship pattern to three leading Indian library and information science (LIS) journals during 2008 to 2017 has been examined to identify the acceptability and popularity of Indian LIS journals among foreign authors. The present study investigates the authorship pattern in terms of different aspects like journals, years, collaborations, prolifc authors, countries, research areas, cited papers and citations. It is found that in last 10 year the three LIS journals publish total 186 foreign authored article having total 1267 citation and two-authored papers are predominant. Besides, the authors from Nigeria share maximum articles followed by USA. It is recommended that the Indian LIS authors need to emphasis more on international collaboration to output more foreign authored contributions in national level journals to enrich journals literature. Keywords: Foreign collaboration; Authorship pattern; Bibliometrics; Annals of Library and Information Studies; DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology; SRELS Journal of Information Management. 1. IntroductIon Research is now-a-days no more carried out by independently rather than it is a collaborative effort of individuals, institutions and countries. In the new era of Globalisation, research collaborated or co-authored with foreign authors now becomes a prestigious practice to develop individual’s capability and research performance. International collaboration also strengthens the country’s knowledge base as well as useful to expand the subject scope as per international standard. Meanwhile, publication of these contributions also increases the status and reputation of a journal. It is worthwhile to mention that the scholarly content of such journals will also be enriched and thereby will help to achieve wider international recognition, readership and impact 1 . The present analytical study is an attempt to depict the foreign authored contributions to leading Indian LIS journals during the last decade. 2. LIterAture revIew The literature review highlighted the papers on foreign authored contribution in Indian LIS journals. For instance, Verma 2 , et al. analysed total 131 paper of the Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) journal during 1999- 2005 and stated that the two foreign countries i.e. Nigeria and Nepal shared highest contributions. In another study, Jena 3 , et al. analysed the publication trends in ALIS during 2002 to 2010 and depicted that among 11 foreign countries, Nigeria followed by Netherlands and USA shared maximum contributions. Bansal 4 measured the pattern and growth of article published in the DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) during the period of 2001-2012 and showed that authors from USA, UK and Singapore published eight article from each. In total foreign authors originating from 21 different countries produced 40 article. Besides, Indian authors produced 6 article collaborating with foreign authors. Pandita 5 in his paper examined the article published in DJLIT journal during 2003-2012 and reported that out of 22 foreign countries, Singapore, UK and USA contributed maximum 8 article each. Mamdapur 6 , et al. assessed the article in SRELS Journal of Information Management (SRELS) during 2004-2013 and revealed that authors from 16 foreign countries published article in the journals. Of these, Kenya and USA lead the table of most productive countries. Patil 7 studied the 249 article of Herald of Library Science journal from 1995 to 2005 and found that 17 foreign countries shared 48 article. Among foreign countries, Nigeria ranked the leading positions followed by USA. Mondal and Raychoudhury 1 evaluated the contribution of foreign authors in 12 Indian LIS journals during 2004-2015 and stated that the COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management (CJSIM) published highest foreign authored article. Out of 57 contributing countries, Nigeria and Iran ranked top two positions consecutively. In their another study, Mondal & Jana 8 investigated the