The research paper deals with the citation analysis of doctoral theses of library and information science submitted to the South Region Universities with the special reference to
Shodhganga website. This study is based on 968 total citations in the 10 doctoral theses. The purpose of this study was to identify the most cited sources of Information, rank list of core
journals, and country-wise publications in library and information science. The study revealed that 77.59% of total citations are cited by journals followed by web-based sources with
11.69% followed by book citations at 4.02% citations. The library philosophy and practice has ranked first with 54 citations with 22.31% of total citations and 16.11% of citations of
Scientometrics was ranked second. The results of citation analysis can be used to evaluate the importance and relevance of a publication, determine the impact of a researcher or researcher group, and identify key authors and research areas in a field. It is commonly used in the field of academic research, but can also be applied to other areas such as patent analysis and media analysis.