**8. Conclusions**

The current study shows that most of the doctoral theses that have been submitted in LIS discipline in India gradually come out from the core area of LIS fields like classification, cataloging, knowledge management, etc. The research trend is growing forward to the scholarly communication, IT based, management oriented, and in academic field also. Most of the research studies are being done on library statistics like bibliometric, scientrometric, webometrics, citation analysis, etc. Also, research on library society, information technology, application of information technology, digital library system and digital environment, information system analysis and design, and user approach is among the modern area of research of LIS field.

*Research Trends in Library and Information Science in India during 2011 to 2018 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109092*
