Publishing Patterns and Authorship in the Scholarly Literature of Digital Object Identifiers: A Bibliometric Analysis

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is an alpha-numeric standard for the use of identifying intellectual property within computer networks and is a recent trend in the field of the electronic publishing of scholarly articles. This study examines the publishing patterns in the scholarly literature of digital object identifiers. The research includes core journals, professional affiliations, gender, and geographic locations. Additionally, the primary disciplines represented in the authorship of the DOI literature are observed. This paper was submitted in the LIS651 course, Introduction to Library and Information Science, during April 2007, as a partial requirement for a Master's degree in the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.