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Prevalence of URLs in Library and Information Science (LIS) Literature: A Citation Analysis

This paper intends to know the prevalence of URLs as citations in Library and Information Science scholarly publications. A total of 8203 research articles published in 12 LIS journals during the years 2006-2015 were studied. Of the 288,452 citations 42,098 were URLs. The characteristics associated with the cited URLs were also analyzed. The study revealed that an average of 5.42 URL citations per article was cited among the single-authored papers. The study also indicated the fact that URLs associated with organizational and commercial domains were highly cited and the HTML and PDF file formats were dominatingly cited.