A Citation Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Library and Information Science Journals Using Google Scholar (Report‪)‬

Introduction Journals play a vital role in the measurement of research output and/or impact because they are the most commonly used avenue for disseminating research findings. Significantly, journals provide information that is crucial for conducting research evaluation, namely: names of authors; authors' institutional affiliation; country affiliation of authors; year of publication and country of publication. Therefore, not only do journals provide a platform on which the research output and impact of individual authors, institutions or countries are measured (Ocholla and Ocholla, 2007), but they are also subjects of evaluation in and of themselves.