Satija Published

Assistant Professor, Dept of Library & Information Science , Vani Mandir Building, Banasthali University, Rajasthan 304 022,
, INDIA. E-mail: nkswainlisfaculty@gmail.com
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. 40/62
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 subfields 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 40/62
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 wont be any library schools in India where Prof. Satijas 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. Satijas 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 dont 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 40/62
(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. Satijas works has earned him international reputation, especially in the field of knowledge organisation. I received many letters from international LIS communities praising critically Satijas work. In India also he has great number of fans mostly teachers as they come often across Satijas 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 Satijas 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 Satijas 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 40/62
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 nonCroatian 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 Hjrland. Birger Hjrland 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 Hjrland, I can see now, that you dont 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 (Hjrland 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 Parameswarans study shows that in a bibliometric study 40/62
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. 40/62
(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 Book Chapters Book Reviews Books Festschrift Volumes Journal Articles Total No of Research Papers 25 158 37 5 123 348 Percentage (%) 7.18 45.40 10.63 1.43 35.34 99.98
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Total Publication Outlate

Journal Articles, 123 Book Chapters, 25
Festschrift Volumes, 5 Books , 37
Book Reviews, 158
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 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984* 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991** 40/62 Total Publications 3 3 0 1 4 6 7 16 22 18 17 13 22 11 Cumulativ e 3 6 6 7 11 17 24 40 62 80 97 110 132 143 Productivit y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Age of MPS (born 1948) 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999*** 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
20 15 7 13 18 17 18 17 13 8 11 8 14 9 6 7 3
163 178 185 198 216 233 251 268 281 289 300 308 322 331 337 344 348
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 *lecturer **Reader ***Professor
Table. 2 show the year wise frequency distribution of Prof Satijas 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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70 60 50 Number of publications 40 30 20 10 0
Fig. 2 : Domainwise contributions of publications
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38
24 12
Classification Cataloguing
20 9 5
LIS Education Library Research Ranganathan
9
Information Literacy Digital Issues
9
Resource Sharing and Networking
3
Technical Education
2
Others
Domain
Fig. 2 shows the domainwise distribution of publications of Prof Satija. 10 broad areas are classified classification (31.05 %) is the single area in which concentration is most followed by Ranganathan studies (20 %).
Outstanding Collaboratorship Satija, MP (Mentor) Chan, Lois Mai Comaromi, John P Haynes, Dorothy Joan, S. Mitchell Joshi, Navin Malhan, I. V Navalani, K. Prytherch , R.J. Raghavan , K.S. Sharma , R.K. Shokeen, Ashu 40/62 Table: 3 Outstanding Collaborators 348 1994-1996 (3) 19881996 (10) 2008 1994 - 1996 (3) 2007 1989-2001 (2) 1990 1986 1998 1992 2001
Knowledge Organisation
Singh , Bharpur Singh , Surinder Singh, Amrik Singh, K P Singh, Sewa Singh, sukhdev Tilwani, T. D Vashishth, C. P. Others* Others* Others* Others* Others* Total : 25
350
1996 1990 1994 2004- 2008 (4) 1996 1995-1998 (2) 2001 2004 2002 2002 2002 2004 2006 * Untraced at the time of research
Number of Publications
250
Fig. 3 : Collaborator Graph
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Jo hn H ay P ne s, D or ot Jo hy an ,S .M itc he ll Jo sh i, N av in M ai ,J oh n P M al ha n, I. V N av al an i, Pr K. yt he rc h ,R R .J ag . ha va n ,K .S . Sh ar m a ,R Sh .K . ok ee n, As hu Si ng h ,B ha rp Si ur ng h ,S ur in de r Si ng h, A m rik (M en to r) C ha n, om i, Lo is C om ar
Sa t ij a,
M P
Collaborator Number
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 40/62
Conference/Seminars/Workshop s CALIBER DRTC FID IASLIC Conferences IATLIS Conferences ILA Conference International Conferences ISKO NACLIN Seminars (National/Regional) SIS Workshops Total
No. of Research Papers 2 1 5 2 4 4 6 2 1 18 2 3 51
Percentage (%) 3.92 1.96 9.80 3.92 7.83 7.83 11.76 3.92 1.96 35.29 3.92 5.88 97.99 Published by Prof M P Papers 2 1 5 2 1 3 1 2 16 2 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 3 4 Total 14 1 5 2 1 4 1 11 30 3 1 7 2 5 1 1 1 1 5 7 19 % 4.98 0.35 1.77 0.71 0.35 1.42 0.35 3.91 10.67 1.06 0.35 2.49 0.71 1.77 0.35 0.35 0.35 0.35 1.77 2.49 6.76
Table 5 List of Journals Preferred for Publications by Satija S. No 1. 2. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 40/62 Journals Asian libraries Cataloguing and Classification quarterly CLIS observer Daily Ajit (Daily Newspaper) Daily Jag Bani DESIDOC Bulletin DLIBCOM Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology Herald of Library Science IASLIC bulletin The Island (Daily Newspaper, Sri Lanka) ILA Bulletin In int. community & connection & Education Indian Book Chronicle Indian Journal of Information, Library and Society. Indian Journal of Technical Education Indian Librarian Information Management Information Management Report International Library Movement International classification Review s 13 0 0 0 0 1 0 9 14 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 1 2 4 15
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
International Information and Library Review International Library Review Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics Journal of Library and Information Science Journal of Scientometrics & Information Management Sampark Knowledge Organization (formerly Int. Classification) Lib progress International Lib sc with a slant to documentation and information studies Lib. Today Libraries and Culture Library Times International Library Herald Library Review Libri Lucknow Librarian Managing Information Outlook on Research libraries Pakistan Journal of Library & Information Science Reference Service Review Reference Review Review Projector Rilisar bulletin Samajik Vigyan Patrika (Punjabi Univ) SPAN SRELS Journal of Information Management Termnet News Third World libraries University News Vidyarthi (Sri Lanka) Total
4 0 0 4 0 0 23 3 0 0 0 9 23 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 158
0 1 1 3 1 2 6 2 1 1 1 4 11 0 8 5 0 7 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 1 1 2 1 123
4 1 1 7 1 2 19 5 1 1 1 13 34 2 9 6 1 8 1 1 3 2 4 1 1 6 1 3 7 1 281
1.42 0.35 0.35 2.49 0.35 0.71 6.76 1.77 0.35 0.35 0.35 4.62 12.09 0.71 3.20 2.13 0.35 2.84 0.35 0.35 1.06 0.71 1.42 0.35 0.35 2.13 0.35 1.06 2.49 0.35
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 40/62
concentrate Prof Satijas writings most. Among the foreign journals Asian Libraries and Knowledge organisation have the largest claim to have Prof. Satijas writings respectively. Table 6: List of books by Prof Satija S.Nos. 1 2 Title
Satija M. P.
, , ,
(2008) Book Numbers: Indian and Cutter, New Delhi:
Year 2008 2008
Viva Books. (2008) .Users Guide to the Sears List of Subject Headings, Lanham: MD (USA): Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Satija M. P. and Haynes, Dorothy Satija M. P. (2007)
3 4 5 6 7
The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System .Oxford: UK, Chandos Publishing.
Satija
2007 2005 2004 2004 2004
, M. ,
M.
P. (2005).
Colon Vargikaran: Praktikal Guide. Patiala:
Madaan Publisher. A Dictionary of Knowledge Organization Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University.
Satija P. (2004).
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10 11
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Exercises in 22nd ed of the Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi; ESS ESS. 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. Satija, M. P. Exercises in 19th edition of the Dewey Decimal classification. New Delhi: Concept publishing Co. 2001. 176p. ISBN 81-7022-878-6. 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 . Satija, M P. (1998). Exercises in the 21st Edition of Dewey Decimal Classification. Delhi: Ess Ess. 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. Navalani, K., Satija, M.P., (Eds). (1996). Library and information services: Emerging Challenges: Essays in honour of Professor N.N. Gidwani. Jaipur: RBSA Satija, M P. and Singh, Sewa (1996). Sandharabh Ate Soochana: Sarit ik Jaan Pehchan. Patiala: Punjabi University Publication
Satija P. (2004).
, M.
2001 2001
1998 1996
1996 1996
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Bureau. Classification dcimal de Dewey: Guide pratique, par Lois Mai Chan, John P. Comaromi, et Mohinder P. Satija; traduction de Raymonde Couture-Lafleur. Montral (Qubec): Les ditions ASTED Inc., 1995. Satija M. P. (1984). Manual of Practical Colon Classification.(3rd Ed). New Delhi: Sterling. Satija, M P. and Agrawal, S. P. (1995). Book Numbers: Some Indian Methods (2nd rev. ed). New Delhi: Reliance. Satija, M P and Singh, Amrik (1994). Bibliography of Colon Classification, 1930-1993. New Delhi: M. D. Publications. Chan, Lois Mai, John P. Comaromi, and Mohinder P. Satija. (1994). Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide . Albany, NY: Forest Press. Satija, M P. (Ed). (1993). Colon classification, 7th Edition: Some Perspectives. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. Navalani, K. and Satija, M.P. (Eds). (1993). Petit Petals: A Tribute to Ranganathan. New Delhi: ABC. Publishing. Satija, M P (1992). S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. New Delhi: Aditya. Satija, M P (1992). S R Ranganathan, 1892- 1972. New Delhi : Ess Ess. Satija, M P (1992). Beyond Classification: Book Numbers. New Delhi: Ess Ess. Satija, M P (1992). Prayogik Dubindu Vargikaran (R.K.Sharma, Trans.) Delhi: Ess Ess. (Original work published 1989). Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1990). Exercises in the 20th Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification. (2nd ed). . New Delhi: Sterling, Satija M. P. (1989). Manual of Practical Colon Classification. (2nd Ed) . New Delhi: Sterling Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1989). Dewey Decimal Classification: History and Current Status. Dhaka: Academic Publishers. Satija, M P. (1989). Colon classification 7th edition: A practical Introduction. New Delhi: ESS ESS. Satija, M P. and Agrawal, S. P. (1989). Book Numbers: Some Indian Methods. New Delhi: Concept. Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1988). Introduction to the Practice of Dewey Decimal Classification (2nd. rev. ed). New Delhi: Sterling. Satija, M P, and Comaromi, John P. (1987). Introduction to the Practice of Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi: Sterling. Satija, M P. (1987). A Primer of Ranganathans Book Number. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.
1995
1995 1995 1994 1994 1993 1993 1992
1992 1992 1990 1989 1989 1989 1989 1988 1987 1987
33 34 35 36 37
Satija M. P. (1984). Manual of Practical Colon Classification. New Delhi: Sterling. Satija M. P. (1984). Colon Vergikaran Practical (in Punjabi) Chandigarh: Punjab State University Text Book Board. Satija M. P. and Comaromi, John P. (1983). Brevity of Notation with Dewey Decimal Classification. New Delhi: Metropolitan Book. Satija M. P. (1979). An Epistle to Dean Shera on the Brevity of Notation in Colon Classification. Amritsar: Rajat. Satija M. P. (1978). Ranganathan: Method and Style. New Delhi: Kalyani.
1984 1984 1983 1979 1978
Prof M P Satija as a Research Guide Table 7: List of doctoral awards with supervision of Prof Satija S. No. 1. 2. 3. Name of Title researcher Sharma, Babita India on an emerging information society with special (2006) reference to its political , administration, cyber laws and new role of librarian thereof and exploratory study Ahmed, Tahir A Survey of the Resources and Services of the Engineering (2007) Colleges Libraries of Punjab by Tahir Ahmed Singh, K P K.P. Singh Information seeking behavior of Agriculture (2007) 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 40/62
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. 1 Prof Satijas Writings 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. 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. 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. Satija, M.P. (1999). Doctoral Research In Library And Information Science In India: Some Observations and Comments. Libri 49: 236242 . Satija, M.P (1985). Colon classification: literature analysis (19701984). International classification 12.3: 133-142. Satija, M. P. (2000). Library Classification: an Essay in Terminology. Knowledge Organisation 27 (4): 221 229. Satija, M. P. (Aug1987). History of book Number. International Classification 14 .2. : 70-76. Navalani, K. and Satija, M.P. (Eds). (1993). Petit Petals: A Tribute to Ranganathan. New Delhi: ABC. Publishing. Satija, M. P. (2003). The Five Laws in Information Society and Virtual Libraries Era. SRELS Journal Of Information Management 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. Satija, M. P. (1989). Colon Classification: a Practical Introduction New Delhi: Ess Ess. Satija, M. P. (1988). FID-88 Pre conference seminar on computer applications of UDC. International Classification 15. 3: 149-150. Satija M. P. (1978). Ranganathan: Method and Style. New Delhi: Kalyani. Satija, M P (1992). S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. Citations 31
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New Delhi: Aditya. Comaromi, John P. and Satija, Mohinder P. (1988). Revising the Dewey Decimal Classification. International Classification 15.1. 1988: 17-20 . Satija, M. P. (1996) Birth Centenary Literature on Ranganathan, 1991-1994: A Review. Asian Libraries 5.2: 65-76. Satija, M. P. (1997). Future and Revision of Colon Classification. Knowledge Organization 24.1: 18-23. Satija, M. P. (1997). Fifty Years of Doctoral Research in Classification an Indexing in India. Library Herald 36.2: 80-87. 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. 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. Satija, M. P. (March 1989). Sources of Indian Library and Information Science Dissertations. Libri 39 (1): 71-78. 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. Total
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Table 8: List of Papers Citing Prof Satijas writings Here is the list of papers citing Prof M P Satijas as per Google Scholar database as on June 9, 2008. Google scholar search results in 829 entries for M P Satija. S No 1 Paper 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 AsiaPacific 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. 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 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 Jenkins, C. and Inman, D. (2000). Adaptive Automatic 1 No. of Times
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Classification on the Web. 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'00): 504 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. 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. McIlwaine, C. The Future of Classification Systems Classification Schemes Consultation with Users and Cooperation Between Editors. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 24. 1/2: 8195. Claudius Hrth (Oct 2002) Klassifikation fr Digitale Bibliotheken:Ein sungsvorschlag fr die digitale Bibliothek Information und Medien der Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart. Juznic, P and Urbanija, J. (2003). Developing Research Skills in Library and Information Science Studies. Library Management, 24. 6-7: 324-331. Juznic , Primoz and Urbanija , Joze (2003) . Developing Research Skills in Library and Information Science Studies. Library Management 24.6/7: 324-331. Alimohammadi, Dariush and Sajjadi, Mahshid. ( 2007) . What Our Schools are Named? : An Investigation Among Information Leaders. VINE 37. 4 : 532 546. 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 MacCall, Steven L. (2008) Welcome to LS 500! Organization of Information University of Alabama. LIS Syllabus .Retrieved on June 10, 2008. 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 AsiaPacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice 2006 (A-LIEP 2006), Singapore, 3-6 April 2006: 427-431. McMenemy, David (2007) .Ranganathan's Relevance in the 21st Century.Library Review 56. 2: 97-101. Slavi Aida (2004) .UDC Translations: a 2004 Survey Report and Bibliography. University College London, School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, United Kingdom.
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Slavic, Aida (2006). Use of the Universal Decimal Classification: a Worldwide Survey. Journal of Documentation 64.2: 211-228 Kon , H and Hoey (2005). Leveraging Collective Knowledge Proceedings of the 14th ACM on international conference on Information and knowledge management 2005. 560 - 567 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. McMenemy , David (2007) Ranganathan's Relevance in the 21st Century. Library Review 56.2: 97-101. de Grolier , ric . (1988) Taxilogie et classification un essai de mise au point et quelques notes de prospective Bulletin des Bibliothques de France (BBF) n 6: 468-489. 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. Buckland, Michael and Liu, Ziming (1995) History Of Information Science Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 30: 385-416.
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H Burrows, Suresh R (1998). Digital Library Approaches to 1 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 fr Geographie der ... Mller, G. et al. 1999. Automatic classification of the World Wide 1 Web using Universal Decimal Classification. In: Online Information 1999: the proceedings of the 23rd International Online Information Meeting. London, 79 December: 231237. Thompson, R., Shafer, K., and Vizine-Goetz, D. (1997). Evaluating 1 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. Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden and Jon Wallis 1 (April 1998) . Automatic classification of Web resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classification. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 30. 1-7 : 646-648 Total 30
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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 singlenumber criterion the scientific output of a single researcher. Hirschs (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 scholars total publications. Hirsch writes: A scientist has index hp if his/her papers have at least h citations each and the other ( N p h ) 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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Fig. 4. h index of Prof. M P Satija Prof M P Satijas 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. Satijas 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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Assistant Professor, Dept of Library & Information Science , Vani Mandir Building, Banasthali University, Rajasthan 304 022,

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