Sana Zia

About

Dr. Sana Zia holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Aligarh Muslim University and has over two years of teaching experience. She serves as an active peer reviewer for reputed international publishers, including Emerald Insight, SAGE, and Springer. Her research interests encompass open access scholarly communication, bibliometrics, citation analysis, and library classification and cataloguing.

Employment

• Aligarh Muslim University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  2022 - 2024

Education

• Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Social Sciences Ph.D. (Senior Research Fellow)
  2016 - 2022
• Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Social Sciences Master's Degree
  2012 - 2013
• Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree
  2011 - 2012
• Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Social Sciences B.A. (Hons)
  2007 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Measuring Scholarly Impact: Comparative Insights from Citation and Bibliometric Analyses
  Journal of Information and Knowledge 2026 DOI: 10.17821/srels/2026/v63i3/172026
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• Mapping the current scenario of gold and green open access in India: trends and patterns from DOAJ and OpenDOAR
  Scientometrics 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-026-05605-1
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• Evidence from Unpaywall on Open Access Adoption among Indian Researchers
  Journal of Data Science, Informetrics, and Citation Studies 2026
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• Glance at the Perception towards Open Access Scholarly Communication: A Meta Synthesis of the Literature
  International Journal of Information Studies and Libraries 2024
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• Exploring factors influencing the use of open access resources in India: A novel perspective on Indian researchers
  Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231207658
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• An Analysis of Research Output in Open Access Journals in BRICS countries: A Bibliometric Study
  Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-08-2020-0109
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• Exploring the Current Status and Emerging Trends of Digital Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis of “Australian Journal of Chemistry”
  Library Philosophy and Practice 2021
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• Use of Open Access Publishing by Researchers: An Analysis of Open Access Availability of Research Literature in the field of Digital Library
  DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 2020 DOI: 10.14429/DJLIT.40.1.15045
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• Does availability of open access scholarly literature affect citation impact?
  International Conference on Digital Landscape: Digital Transformation for an Agile Environment (ICDL, 2019) 2019
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• Open Access Publishing and Self-Archiving by Academics in India: A Case Study of Aligarh Muslim University
  6th International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2019) 2019
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