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Authorship in "College & Research Libraries" Revisited: Gender, Institutional Affiliation, Collaboration
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This article updates earlier studies by Gloria Cline and Paul Metz on the characteristics of authorship of articles published in College & Research Libraries, focusing on gender, institutional affiliation, and extent of collaboration. Between 1989 and 1994, representation by academic librarians and authors affiliated with library schools increased, collaboration became predominate, and for the first time the number of primary women authors equaled that of men. Considering all coauthors, female authors outnumbered men. The largest proportion of authors were women academic librarians who coauthored articles. Women, however, were underrepresented among authors affiliated with library schools and among academic administrators.
... In a comparative analysis of the characteristics of authors in four Nigerian librarianship journals, Okiy (2003) observed that males published more than females; Igbinosa and Idiodi (2004) observed similar phenomena among librarians in Edo State. In contrast, Terry (1996) found that there was female dominance in research productivity in his study of authorship in the journal of College & Research Libraries (CRL) from 1989-1994. This study intended to determine the effect of gender on the research productivity of librarians. ...
... The relationship between gender and research productivity has been addressed by several studies (Blackburn & Lawrence, 1995;Vasil, 1996;Terry, 1996;Creamer, 1998;Okiy, 2003;Symonds, Gemmell, Braisher, Gorringe, & Elgar, 2006;Khojasteh, & Herring, 2007;and Ogbogu, 2009). Studies have shown that there are discrepancies between female and male scholars across the disciplines in their research productivity, and that females publish less than males (Powell & Mainiero, 1993). ...
... On a more optimistic note, however, Lertputtarak (2008) found that gender had no effect on the research productivity of academic and than female academics in Thailand publish on the same level as male academics. Terry (1996) observed no male dominance in librarians' research productivity in his study of authorship in the journal, College & Research Librarianship, from 1989-1994. Terry (1996 observed that for the first time, females equaled males in single authorship and even outnumbered males as co-authors. ...
The purpose of the paper was to find out if gender differences existed in the research productivity of librarians in university libraries in Nigeria. A survey was conducted among librarians in 16 federal, states and private university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. The population was made up of 169 librarians from 16 universities. Analysis of the data showed that there were slight gender differences in the quantity of research publications by type produced by librarians in university libraries with a male advantage. These differences were however found to be not statistically significant. The results are based on self report by librarians and not direct access to the publications produced or the curriculum vitae of the librarians concerned. A noticeable improvement in the research productivity of female librarians was observed in comparison with previous studies. This paper offers new information on the research productivity of female librarians as well as the areas of dominance in research productivity by each sex.
... Gloria Cline (1982) studerar 40 års publicering i tidskriften CRL för att utröna förändringar i publiceringsmönster på området. Clines studie följs upp av Paul Metz (1989) och James L. Terry (1996) med en tio-respektive femårsperiod (1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994). Lois Buttlar (1991) kartlägger bl.a. ...
... College & Research Libraries, Library Quarterly och Journal of Academic Librarianship. Wallace Koehler publicerar tillsammans med en grupp B&I-studenter en bibliometrisk studie över 50 volymer En tydlig trend hos såväl den fortlöpande studien av College & Research Libraries som studien av JASIS, är att andelen kvinnliga författare har ökat väsentligt de senaste decennierna (Cline 1982, Metz 1989, Terry 1996, Koehler & Persson 2000. Olsgaards och Olsgaards (1980) kritiska synpunkter på att kvinnor inte är respresenterade i proportion till andelen yrkesverksamma kvinnor har ersatts av Metz (1989) är ojämnt fördelade med en tydlig manlig dominans. ...
... Samförfattarskap har under de senare decennierna varit ett intressant studieområde inom bibliometrin eftersom frekvensen av fenomenet har ökat markant. Bland de tidigare nämnda författarna relaterar Korytnyk (1988) , Terry (1996) och Koehler m.fl. (2000) samförfattarskap till genus. ...
... Several investigators have examined the role of collaboration in research and publishing. Terry (1996) reported a dramatic increase in co-authorship in College & Research Libraries from less than 5% in 1939 to almost 60% in 1994. Bahr and Zemon (2000) noted that between 1986 and 1996 40% of the articles in College & Research Libraries and 29% of those in the Journal of Academic Librarianship were co-authored. ...
... Taking a journal-based approach in their landmark study, Olsgaard and Olsgaard (1980) developed what has come to be known as the Olsgaard Profile of librarian authors, finding that males affiliated with institutions located in the Northeast and Midwest regions of the United States were over-represented as authors in the top LIS journals compared to their relative numbers in the field. Adamson and Zamora (1981) and Buttlar (1991) had similar findings, and Terry's (1996) study of authors in College & Research Libraries from 1989 to 1994 showed females made up 51.7% of total contributors, which, while an increase in overall numbers, still pointed to an over-representation of male authors. Zemon and Bahr's (1998) analysis of articles by college librarians in College & Research Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship from 1986 to 1996 showed an almost equal number written by females as by males. ...
... Namun demikian, kontribusi pengarang wanita dari tahun ke tahun cenderung menga1ami kenaikan (Lipetz 1999). Bahkan penelitian yang dilakukan terhadap majalah College & Research Libraries tahun 1989-1994, untuk pertama kalinya jumlah pengarang wanita setara dengan pengarang pria (Terry 1996). ...
... Dinyatakan bahwa sebagian besar pengarang berasal dari kalangan perguruan tinggi (Raptis 1992 ;Terry 1996;Lipetz 1999). Sebaliknya, temuan berlawanan dilaporkan oleh Walker (1997) bahwa hanya sebagian kecil artikel ditulis oleh pengarang dari lembaga perguruan tinggi. ...
The pwpose of this study is to find out the authorship and the use of literature characteristics in social sciences. The result for the study of Masyarakat Indonesia (JSSN 0125-9989) consists a number of 12 publications with 67 articles showing that the authors were dominated by males. The most popular subjects written are social groups by age and ethnic, and labor economics. The average number of authorship per article is 1,09 and articles with multi authorship reaching 8,96% and author productivity being 9,23%. The average number of pages per article is 19,60 pages and each article containing 24,91 references. Books are the most used document for references, and median of all citation age is 11 years, while citation age in politics and economics are relatively current documents. Prisma is the most cited journal, while the most cited of Indonesian authors is Koentjaraningrat.
... LIS literature was mostly prevalent with single authored publications, but there has been a substantial rise in multi-authored LIS publications, which were investigated by numerous studies on authorship collaborations (Apolinario et al., 2014;Mondal & Jana, 2018;Terry, 1996;Weller et al., 1999;Wiberley et al., 2006). A study was conducted on the top ten leading LIS journals during 2007-2008 and found that there is a significantly high percentage of multi-author collaboration in LIS publications. ...
The study examines whether there exist any similarities in impact, author collaboration, and
prestige between Open Access (OA) and Subscription based (SB) Library and Information
Science (LIS) journals. The study selected highly appearing 32 core LIS journals in all four
quartiles of SCImago database during 2018–2022. The Scopus database was utilized to
extract CiteScore, SNIP, Total Articles, Citations, and publications data from 2018 to 2022,
while h5-index was calculated manually and SJR scores were extracted from SCImago.
Statistical tests (Student’s t-test and Mann-Whitney U-test) were conducted in R software,
guided by normality and variance checks. The study reveals that SB LIS journals outperformed
OA LIS journals in terms of impact and prestige based on several statistical tests on
CiteScore and h5-index data. However, there was no significant difference in SNIP indicator
for both datasets. On the contrary, the study revealed similarities in the degree of author
collaboration in both datasets, with no significant difference. Besides, the study also determines
SB LIS journals have a significant advantage in articles published per year and citations
garnered per year during the study period. The insights of this study would help LIS
researchers, stakeholders, and policymakers to consider OA publishing as an alternate
medium for scholarly communication. It is vital for OA LIS journal stakeholders to consistently
improve productivity, quality, and the peer review process, to slowly diminish the gap
between OA and SB journals in terms of impact and prestige.
... Additionally, U.S. librarians excel in addressing various information challenges, such as acquiring materials, enabling information access, conducting research, teaching research methodologies, and supporting students (Westbrook, 2003). There is a notable transformation that occurred when women authors collectively outnumbered men suggesting a positive trend in female authors' growth and contributions to scholarly journals (Awasthi & Sukula, 2021;Terry, 1996). This shift in gender representation was further examined by Fennewald (2007), who noted that female academic librarians were more likely to be presenters at conferences, suggesting a potential pathway from presentations to future publications. ...
Background of the study: Female librarians often face limitations in their professional development and encounter various challenges. Previous studies have shown that while many articles focus on women librarians as a subject, few delve into the topics discussed. Purpose: This research aims to find out which topics are developing in the world of libraries, with a specific focus on female librarians. Method: This study uses topic modelling to explore abstracts from documents discussing female librarians, using BERTopic, scattertext, and VOSviewer to identify emerging topics from data obtained from Scopus. Findings: A total of 6 topics were determined, where Topic 0 and Topic 3 had the highest similarity. At the same time, keyword analysis did not reveal any particularly prominent keywords in the 2020s. Conclusion: The discussion on female librarians covers topics such as professional advancement, work-life balance, knowledge gaps in technology, stereotypes, and the correlation between these topics. This study provides an overview of text analysis that librarians can use to identify topics in a collection of texts, such as abstracts, and examine how different topics relate to each other, as a single document can reflect multiple topics.
... Bibliometrics deals with five major groups of phenomena and their analysis: first, in citation analysis for individuals, institutions, countries and disciplines [40], second co-citation analysis [35], for mapping countries, individuals, schools of thought; third scientific productivity [34], impact analysis, [16] individuals, countries and institutions; fourth, analysis of specific outputs such as articles or patents, based on author characteristics, citation patterns and longitudinal characteristics [37], and fifth, cooccurrence of words, references [15]. This paper focuses on the analysis of co-citation and word co-occurrence networks. ...
The smart university concept seeks to improve the quality of life by applying information technologies in a comprehensive, intensive, and sustainable way. It is an emerging concept, where little attention has been paid so far to the quantitative description of its evolution. The main objective of this article is to present the results of a bibliometric analysis around the emerging concept of smart university. It includes citation analysis, keyword networks, journal co-citation networks, references, and most cited authors. For this paper, a computer tool was used as a support to identify and visualize the intellectual structure of the smart university concept and its relationships retrieved from the Dimensions.ai. platform.KeywordsBibliometric analysisSocial network analysisCo-word analysisSmart university
... Further, Brattin (1991) examined six journals, including C&RL, that published research articles with quantitative methods in 1990 and revealed that half of the articles published by C&RL were research articles. Terry (1996) examined gender, institutional relationships, and degree of coauthorship in articles appearing in C&RL from 1989to 1994. Recently, Mamdapur et al. (2013 investigated scholarly communication in CR&L from 1997 to 2011 to reveal coauthorship and citation. ...
This study investigates the top authors, the most frequent keywords in selected top Chinese and international journals in academic librarianship, and emergent themes by conducting network and cluster analysis. The results suggest that LIS researchers in mainland China were less active in publishing articles in international journals during the period examined. Chinese researchers focused more on reading promotion and new technology implementation in libraries, while international researchers discuss communications among diverse disciplines more. Drawing international subject librarians' practices could be an approach to transform Chinese academic libraries to cope with the library crisis by playing a role as a bridge among scholars from various disciplines.
... As the findings indicated, more than half of the award-winning papers were coauthored, resonating with the prevalence of collaboration in LIS that has been widely noted in previous studies [5,[29][30][31]. Not surprisingly, authors from North America (mainly the U.S.) and Europe (mainly the U.K.) contributed to a large portion of the corpus under study, which was in line with previous findings [6,32]. ...
This paper explores the characteristics of 106 award-winning papers from the Library and Information Science (LIS) journals published by Emerald Publishing between 2008 and 2019, focusing on collaboration type, paper type, topic, and citation count to illustrate the developmental trends of LIS scholarship. The findings show that the top three topics of the award-winning papers were information service activities, professions and information institutions, and user studies. More than half of the award-winning papers were written by teams, among which inter-institutional collaboration and intradepartmental collaboration accounted for the largest proportion, while interdepartmental collaboration within an institution accounted for the smallest proportion. There were 65 empirical research papers in the sample, among which qualitative studies were dominant, followed by quantitative research and mixed methods research. The award-winning papers had a higher mean and median in citation counts than the average papers concurrently published by the journals. The research results provide implications for researchers and can help them understand the trends in research topics and common analytical types in LIS for their future studies.
... Content analysis of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) from 1939 to 1994 by Gloria S. Cline and later by James L. Terry indicated that, during the five-year timespan of 1939-1944, only 4.3 percent of the total articles had a co-author; 2 this percentage climbed significantly to 14.1 percent for C&RL articles published between 1965 and 1969, and later to 59.5 percent for articles published between 1989 and 1994. 3 Another study by Alice Harrison Bahr and Mickey Zemon of C&RL and the Journal of Academic Librarianship (JAL) from 1993 to 1996 found that almost 3 out of 4 articles were co-authored. 4 A more recent study of only JAL from 2004 to 2013 by Lili Luo and Margaret McKinney confirmed what the previous research had indicated-that the majority of the articles were written by two or more people (54.3%). ...
... The percentage of single-authored works in this study also appears to continue a long-term, general trend in the discipline toward collaborative authorship. Terry's (1996) analysis of papers published in the journal, College & Research Libraries, showed a notable and steady decrease in singleauthored works over the course of 55 years: 96% from 1939-1944, and 41% from 1989-1994 covered the years 1980-1991, and the present study (50% single-authorship) covered the years 2007-2013. ...
The author conducted a content analysis of papers submitted to the journal, Communications in Information Literacy, from the years 2007-2013. The purpose was to investigate and report on the overall quality characteristics of a statistically significant sample of papers submitted to a single-topic, open access, library and information science (LIS) journal. Characteristics of manuscript submissions, authorship, reviewer evaluations, and editorial decisions were illuminated to provide context; particular emphasis was given to the analysis of major criticisms found in reviewer evaluations of rejected papers. Overall results were compared to previously published research. The findings suggest a trend in favor of collaborative authorship, and a possible trend toward a more practice-based literature. The findings also suggest a possible deterioration in some of the skills that are required of LIS authors relative to the preparation of scholarly papers. The author discusses potential implications for authors and the disciplinary literature, recommends directions for future research, and where possible, provides recommendations for the benefit of the greater community of LIS scholars.
... This posits an indication of the maturity of the KM domain where authors develop relationship networks and collaborate to overcome the current increasingly challenging journal acceptance rates. The findings are also in line with the broader bibliometric studies of Metz (1989) and Terry (1996) which report a general phenomenon of progressive trends in co-authorship in other research disciplines. An additional indicator of maturity is represented in the findings of unbiased distribution of papers among a wide range of research and professional organisations. ...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the current research trends in Knowledge Management (KM) through a scientometric analysis of all literature published in KMRP between 2003 and 2015 (506 articles). The review framework explores three sets of review questions addressing Research Productivity, Research Themes and Methods, and Citation Analysis. The study elucidates wide global interest in KM and an increasing trend towards multi-author collaboration. Although more than 55 different industries have featured in the journal, certain knowledge-intensive sectors remain underrepresented. Country productivity shows few nations taking the lead with an interesting correlation between research activity and economic prosperity. Moreover, a growing tendency towards empirical methods is observed in contrast to a decrease in literature review papers, coupled with a recent rise in articles that integrate KM and Information Technology (IT). In terms of citation and influences, few published articles have stood out in the journal’s history. This is the first comprehensive scientometric research of KMRP describes the state-of-the-art value and provides an outlook of the future.
... This underrepresentation is not limited to higher education administration; rather, it crosses multiple venues. With specific regard to women, researchers have noted a gender gap in academic publishing, both generally (Leahy, 2006;Ward & Grant, 1996) and within specific disciplines or fields, including counselor education (Buffalino Roland, & Fontanesi-Seime, 1996), ecology (Martin, 2012), geography (Rigg, McCarragher, & Krmenec, 2012) leisure studies (Aitchison, 2001), library science (Terry, 1996), physical therapy (Kaufman & Chevan, 2011), political science (Evans & Bucy, 2010;Mathews & Anderson, 2001), and medicine (Barnett et al., 1998, Jagsi et al., 2006. ...
Using Feminist Phase Theory (FPT) as our analytical framework, we studied the status of gender awareness and influence in higher education leadership development trends in four premier higher education journals for the years 2008, 2011, and 2014. Our analysis was accomplished through the review of articles and book reviews published in two US and two international journals: Higher Education (Netherlands), Higher Education Quarterly (UK), Journal of Higher Education (US), and The Review of Higher Education (US). Study results indicated progress toward a multifocal set of perspectives in which gender was not an issue; rather other concerns such as social justice or diversity were the focus. Data also indicated that while gender was no longer a specific focus of the literature, it was still an underlying concern. Gender and leadership are still being examined, intentionally or not. An additional finding revealed through the study of these journals is a lack of research about leadership in higher education, particularly in the US. A focus on understanding leadership does not appear to be a priority among this higher education community.
... Although single-authored articles were the most prevalent in LIS literature, numerous studies have investigated multiauthored articles (Apolinario et al., 2014;Buttlar, 1991;Chapman & Pike, 1993;Weller et al., 1999;Wiberley et al., 2006). When researchers observed a growing trend in the number of coauthored articles in LIS (Terry, 1996), they began to shift the research focus from the number of authors per article to collaboration, including collaboration between librarians and faculty, researchers who frequently collaborated with librarians, and the type of collaboration that authors engaged in. Winston and Williams (2003) indicated that authors prefer to collaborate with colleagues who hold a similar job position. ...
This study focused on librarian authors of open access articles in the field of library and information science (LIS). Of 19 LIS OA journals and 1819 research articles published between 2008 and 2013, half of the authors (55.6%) worked in libraries and approximately one third were researchers (33.5%). No appreciable changes were observed in the annual distributions of authors' occupations. Regarding the types of collaboration, 53.7% of all articles were coauthored and primarily resulted from collaborations among librarians. The coauthored articles written by librarians and researchers accounted for the second-most prevalent type of collaboration; the highest increase was identified in the annual percentage of articles resulting from collaboration between librarians and researchers. This confirms that librarians engage in increasingly frequent interaction with researchers.
... These figures indicate that men published more than women in the LIS profession in the Arab world. But when comparing these Terry (1996) attempted to design a useful chart in order to illustrate the rise in the percentage of female authorship in that journal from a low of 13% in the late 1950s to a high of 51.7% for the period between 1989 and 1994. Joswick (1999) analysed article publication patterns of Illinois academic librarians and found that 59.64% of the authors sampled were female, and only 39.75% were male. ...
Several studies discussed the characteristics of authors who published in Library and Information Science
journals. Although none focused specifically on Arab librarians as authors, the current study attempts to
reveal the scholarly contributions to library literature by Arab librarians. The study describes and
analyses the journal research publications in Library and Information Science journals by professional
librarians from 1981 to 2010. Single-author articles are found to be highly followed by two and three
authored articles. The average degree of collaboration between authors in Library and Information
Science journals is 9.64% (only 19 journal articles written by at least two or three authors). Finally, this
study provides recommendations to Arab librarians to encourage them to be engaged in research in the
Library and Information Science discipline.
... As Harsanyi (1993) has shown, different disciplines interpret the order of authorship differently. According to Terry (1996), there are no established norms for citation order in librarianship and information science. As indicated in Table 2, our author sample consists of 2153 authors for 975 articles. ...
This paper presents the results of a survey conducted in 2005—2006 regarding the extent of use of digital resources by students and researchers in five universities in Israel and the ratio of use between authorized electronic information resources provided by academic libraries, and the Surface Web. About 80 percent of respondents reported a high or very high frequency of use of the Surface Web for seeking information for their study or research. In contrast, only about 28 percent of the respondents reported high or very high use of academic e-journals, 40 percent high or very high use of digital databases, and only about 13 percent high or very high use of e-books. A situation in which academics use the Surface Web two or three times more frequently than more authoritative digital information sources provided by their library indicates a severe problem related to the quality of information used, which may severely harm the quality and credibility of research based upon it. The survey findings are worrying since much Surface Web information is not reliable or authoritative. The current research does not indicate what causes students and researchers to depend so heavily on Surface Web information for their research, but it is reasonable to assume that it derives mainly from the ease and convenience of using Internet search engines.
... As Harsanyi (1993) has shown, different disciplines interpret the order of authorship differently. According to Terry (1996), there are no established norms for citation order in librarianship and information science. As indicated in Table 2, our author sample consists of 2153 authors for 975 articles. ...
Considering the low rate of reading of books in Iran and the disregard for reading skills in daily life, innovative plans and programs aimed at bringing books to the public introduce citizens to books as major information carriers and establish the reading habit as a necessity for today’s life. The Green Gift Plan (GGP), focusing on building small libraries in some public areas and work places (i.e. barbers’ shops, dentists’ or doctors’ offices, women’s beauty salons) in Mazandaran Province, Iran, aimed at improving reading among the people by bringing books into society. It also put emphasis on librarians’ social responsibilities. The paper describes the settings, objectives and implementation of this plan and makes proposals for the continuation of the plan and the implementation of other similar plans.
... 16 More recently, James L. Terry updated previous studies by Gloria S. Cline and Metz. 17 He studied gender, institutional affiliation, and extent of coauthorship of articles appearing in C&RL for the years 1989-1994. Mickey Zemon and Alice Harrison Bahr studied authorship of articles appearing in both C&RL and JAL between 1986 and 1996. ...
College & Research Libraries (C&RL) and the Journal of Academic Librarianship (JAL) are the two primary journals in the field of academic librarianship. This study examines articles appearing in C&RL and JAL so as to evaluate these journals on the basis of type of articles published, structure of the articles, types of statistics used, and data collection methods used. The results indicate that C&RL publishes significantly more research articles than does JAL. Other results show that surveys are the primary form of data collection and that descriptive statistics are used much more frequently than inferential statistics. The percentage of research articles included in these journals has increased since earlier studies.
... James L. Terry's study of authorship in C&RL reveals the notable increase in collaborative articles (see table 1). 18 A more comprehensive study by Anne C. Weller, Julie M. Hurd, and Stephen E. Wiberley Jr. found that 45 percent of articles by U.S. academic librarians and deans in thirty-two peer-reviewed journals between 1993 and 1997 had two or more authors. 19 Collaboration and Publication Acceptance Because journals are publishing increasing numbers of collaborative articles, these articles have a greater chance of being ac cepted for publication. ...
Academic librarians, particularly college librarians, may increase their contributions to the professional literature through collaborative authorship. For example, university librarians, who published 69 percent of the articles in College & Research Libraries and the Journal of Academic Librarianship between 1986 and 1996, contributed almost 90 percent of the coauthored research in those core journals. This study examines the increase in collaboration in the literature of academic librarianship and in other disciplines, explores the relationship between collaboration and article quality as well as author productivity, compares collaborative patterns of college and university librarians, and considers factors that lead to successful collaboration.
... A similar study by James L. Terry revealed that between 1989 and 1994, only 9.1 percent of all authors in College & Research Libraries came from nonlibrary institutions or organizations. 36 Terry compared his study with Paul Metz's earlier study of authorship patterns in College & Research Libraries which found a larger percentage of articles originating from nonlibrary sources-12.68 percent between 1939 and 1979, and 18.62 percent between 1980 and 1988. 37 Terry and Metz only tabulated institutional affiliation for the first author. ...
This study examined the contribution to the peer-reviewed literature of library and information science by practicing academic librarians in the United States. Data on authors were obtained from articles published from 1993 to 1997 in thirty-two journals. Of 3,624 peer-reviewed articles in these journals, 1,579 (43.6%) were authored by at least one practicing academic librarian. These librarians represented 386 institutions of higher educa- tion. This study provides benchmark data for publication productivity of academic librarians and identifies a core list of peer-reviewed journals for them. Approximately six percent of these librarians wrote three or more articles in the five-year period. In nineteen journals one-third or more of the articles were authored by academic librarians. Libraries from Research I universities that were members of the Association for Research Libraries were the most productive. The contribution of practicing academic librar- ians to the literature of their field is significant.
... As Harsanyi (1993) has shown, different disciplines interpret the order of authorship differently. According to Terry (1996), there are no established norms for citation order in librarianship and information science. As indicated in Table 2, our author sample consists of 2153 authors for 975 articles. ...
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) has been playing a vital role in the dissemination of scholarly articles in library and information science since 1950. This paper presents the results of a bibliometric study of articles published in the JASIST from 2000 to 2007. It examines the distribution of papers under various headings, including authorship pattern and nature of collaboration, geographic distribution of articles, nature of cited and citing references, prolific authors and highly cited authors. Data were collected using the Web of Science and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. Results indicate that during the sample period the rate of publication was uneven and the most prominent form of publication was articles. The trend of authorship pattern of articles is towards collaboration and authors from 47 countries contributed articles. The country-wise distribution reveals that the highest number of contributions was made by US authors followed by the UK. The number of references cited per article increased from 2000—2007 whereas articles received citations in decreasing numbers during the same period. The results suggest that articles need to have been published for more than 2 years before they receive adequate numbers of citations.
This paper explains mainly and plainly how to control the speed of a permanent magnet direct current (PMDC) motor with a PID control analysis at the educational level. While controlling, PMDC motor speed analysis has been made by changing the PID coefficients, parameters such as oscillation effect, maximum overshoot, rise time, and settling time have been examined in detail based. The most ideal state has been tried to be found by replacing PID coefficients. At the same time, PID tuning has been performed by using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. PID coefficient correction has been performed in Matlab with some iterations and the subject has been examined from the perspective of comparing different combinations. In this way, it has been tried to contribute to the literature by observing the effect of the PSO algorithm on the PID tuning. It is thought that this study will guide the basics of automation and control projects in future studies on PMDC motor control characteristics.KeywordsEducationPMDC motorPIDPID tuningPSO
Sliding Mode Control (SMC), which is built on the variable structure control (VSC) algorithm, is a robust and non-linear control method that can provide the desired dynamic behaviour for the system to be controlled despite external and internal disturbances and uncertainties. The SMC method can be successfully implemented in the control of high-dimensional nonlinear systems operating under uncertain conditions due to its high accuracy and simplicity of application. In this MATLAB/Simulink based study; the SMC method is applied to the speed control of a DC motor. For this purpose, firstly, the dynamic model of DC motor and the mathematical model of the SMC have been designed and transferred to the Simulink environment. The performance of the SMC system has been examined under different loading conditions applied to the motor. In addition, the effects of changing the SMC parameters on the sliding surface, chattering and motor dynamic behaviours have been investigated. In order to evaluate the success of the SMC topology in DC motor control application, Fuzzy Logic Control, PID and PI control methods were applied on the same motor and their performances were compared with the SMC method.
Lamont’s study used first author citation analysis of 2006–2007 library technology articles to report gender disparity in library technology publications. Yet, the research study was conducted a decade ago, had a sample size of publications that was limited in scope, and took a broad view of library technology. Through the replication of Lamont’s study with more current publications (2018–2020) and thematic analysis, this research study will explore: how the percentage of first authors publishing in library technology journals has increased/decreased since Lamont’s study, the relationship between first author’s gender and library technology domains, and themes that demonstrate gender disparity in library technology publications. © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
This study examines the proportion of women as first authors in major library and information science (LIS) journals over the years 1981–2020. Author name and year data were collected for 10 LIS journals – five that are associated more with library topics and five with information science topics – and analysed using the genderize.io tool. Both general trends over time and comparisons of information science versus library science journals are presented. The findings indicate significant growth in the proportion of women authors among the LIS journals, but primarily concentrated only among the library science journals, with information science journals falling well behind. Representation of women authors (~60%) still lags well below the overall representation of women in librarianship (~80%). These findings suggest that there is still considerable growth needed to decrease the gender gap among authorship in top LIS journals.
Collaborating on scholarship has the potential to provide many advantages, including benefiting from others’ expertise, reinforcing accountability, and providing motivation. However, working with others is tricky—consider compatible work habits, receptivity to criticism, and commitment to fulfill responsibilities. Decisions to be made include where to publish, in what order authors’ names will appear, and how the manuscripts will be written. Who will coordinate? Who will write what? Who will revise? Also, consider how to address problems—missed deadlines, less-than-stellar quality, how to say “no” in the future, and more.
This article looks at recent descriptions and analyses of the library and information science professional literature, primarily journal publications. Other professional literatures are also reviewed. Finally, a brief analysis of the content of six professional journals for articles published in 1993 is included.
Authorship characteristics from the Asian and Pacific region in the top twenty journals in library and information science are studied. Data was collected searching the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science databases. Major findings of this study are: there are a total of 1,317 articlesfor the period 1967 to 2005; the most productive countries are, in rank order, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines; and 77.6 percent of authors in the top twenty libraryand information science journals contributed a single article. Among the library science journals about 50 percent were written by multiple authors, while 73.1 percent of articles in the information science journals were written collaboratively. The most productive individual authors in the region are reported. Thestrongest collaboration within the region took place between Australia and China; China and Singapore; Australia and New Zealand.
La vitalità di un settore scientifico è normalmente attestata dalla ricaduta che le ricerche e le pubblicazioni hanno sulla comunità degli studiosi che la praticano e, quindi, sullo sviluppo della disciplina stessa e delle sue metodologie. Il grado di ‘salute’ di un campo di studio, nonché la sua capacità di uscire fuori dalla propria nicchia di studiosi e di vedere riconosciuta la propria validità, si valuta, infatti, analizzando se e in quale misura i lavori vengano letti, commentati, citati da studiosi di altri contesti geografici e/o di altri rami scientifici. Nel volume viene descritta una ricerca incentrata sull’analisi del livello di internazionalizzazione e di vitalità degli studi italiani nelle discipline del libro e del documento, condotta attraverso una serie di indagini parallele di tipo bibliometrico (interrogazione dei database citazionali, ricerche in Google scholar, applicazione di metriche alternative, library catalog analysis).
This paper proposed main problems of quantity and quality measurement of the research articles published in INKOM journal for 5 years period in informatics, computers and control system. Those three areas have become research missions of The Research Center for Informatics – Indonesia Institute of Sciences. The aim of this paper is to show how to solve research problems above using bibliometric method to analyze bibliography data available in the journal as well as to offer a summary of the research activity in the area including its most important aspects. Bibliographical data are taken from 76 articles published in the journal from May 2007 to November 2011. This paper also discusses how the method is used to measure article distribution, magazine classification category, article subject distribution, authorship patterns, and institutions distribution contributions. Results of the research show that the majority of articles are contributed by multi authors with degree of collaboration 0,553; the journal has already been widely known by the researchers outside LIPI, researchers from non-LIPI institution dominated more on the publication than from LIPI itself. The quantity of research articles increased in 2011 and used more references from scientific articles than the year before. Besides, the research quality also increased and used more cited articles from scientific journal literature than from books.
This article describes and analyses the various bibliometric components of articles published
in Indian Journal of International Law (IJIL).The paper analyses the various quality aspects of
326 articles which were published during the period under study from 1960 to 2010. The paper
covers the quantitative growth of articles by volume and year, distribution of citations by volume
and year, range and percentage of citations per article, authorship pattern of articles, authorship
productivity, ranked list of most prolific contributors, ranked list of authors by geographical
affiliation, ranked list of authors by profession, ranked list by subjects of articles and journal
self-citation in the articles. How often an article, an author, or a journal is cited by others is an
indication of the quality of the journal and performance of the researcher or group—the higher
the number of citations, the higher the level of quality and performance.
Keywords: IJIL; Bibliometric, Citation Analysis.
This article describes and analyses the various bibliometric components of articles published in Indian Journal of International Law (IJIL). The paper analyses the various quality aspects of 326 articles which were published during the period under study from 1960 to 2010. The paper covers the quantitative growth of articles by volume and year, distribution of references by volume and year, range and percentage of references per article, authorship pattern of articles, authorship productivity, ranked list of most prolific contributors, ranked list of authors by geographical affiliation, ranked list of authors by profession, ranked list by subjects of articles and journal self-citation in the articles. How often an article, an author, or a journal is cited by others is an indication of the quality of the journal and performance of the researcher or group—the higher the number of references, the higher the level of quality and performance.
Transformation of the University School of Library Science and Documentation into the Sciences of Documentation Faculty has been a stabilizating factor for the curricula and favored the labor of the teaching and research activity, the general conclusion derived is that the Complutense University has great development and research potential in the area of Library Science and Documentation.
The author conducted a content analysis of papers submitted to the journal, Communications in Information Literacy, from the years 2007-2013. The purpose was to investigate and report on the overall quality characteristics of a statistically significant sample of papers submitted to a single-topic, open access, library and information science (LIS) journal. Characteristics of manuscript submissions, authorship, reviewer evaluations, and editorial decisions were illuminated to provide context; particular emphasis was given to the analysis of major criticisms found in reviewer evaluations of rejected papers. Overall results were compared to previously published research. The findings suggest a trend in favor of collaborative authorship, and a possible trend toward a more practice-based literature. The findings also suggest a possible deterioration in some of the skills that are required of LIS authors relative to the preparation of scholarly papers. The author discusses potential implications for authors and the disciplinary literature, recommends directions for future research, and where possible, provides recommendations for the benefit of the greater community of LIS scholars.
Three scholarly core journals of library and information science (LIS) were analyzed with respect to gender of article authors and gender of authors cited in these articles. The share of female contributors to these journals has certainly increased during the studied period, 1980-2000. However, the results of the quantitative citation analysis show puzzling differences concerning female and male authors' citation practice. There may be a gender bias in LIS publishing, even though female authors have become more numerous. Further studies are needed to uncover the influence of other variables, such as subject content of the articles.
Academic librarianship is very much concerned with the scholarship of others, but what do we know about the scholarship of librarians? This empirical study examines the relationship between author demographics, article topic, and, in particular, faculty and librarian authorship collaboration in the academic library literature. Extensive data collection facilitated the analysis of trends, correlations, and frequencies. Significant findings were found regarding the number of authors, article type, and paper topic in the context of faculty and librarian authorship collaboration.
This paper reports an analysis of publications of scholars affiliated in Malaysia in engineering subject. The study uses bibliometrics method which examines patterns of Malaysian authorship publications in engineering, publish from 2000 to 2010. 11,819 bibliographic records were gathered from Scopus database. The findings indicate Malaysian researchers have considerably enhanced their influence especially since the period of 2007 onwards. Most authors in this field are not one time contributors and 71 authors produced 30 or more papers each. Collaborative research activity has been a consistent trend towards increased collaboration in engineering. The main types of publication produced are conference papers and journal articles. 99.907% of the publications were written in English. This study indicates that Malaysian researchers have made significant contributions to global engineering study.
This study provides a profile of the authors of contributed papers at the first twelve ACRL conferences. It found that the conference presenters tend to be female academic librarians (administrators, reference librarians, and subject specialists) from Doctoral Research institutions in the Midwest. It also discovered several trends. During its 27-year history, there have been increases in the number of female authors, library school faculty giving papers, and authors from master's and baccalaureate institutions. In addition, the rate of collaboration has grown. The profile and its related trends were very similar to what has been reported in C&RL authorship studies—with one exception. Women are more likely to appear as confer- ence presenters than journal authors. Further research should explore the role of gender in scholarly communication.
The Library History Seminars, founded by Louis Shores in 1961, have met about every five years ever since. Through a series of tables and charts, this essay examines various characteristics of the seminar partici- pants, including their gender, institutional affiliation, and the topic and era of their presentations. The data are analyzed to provide a picture of who does library history and how the discipline's research interests have evolved over the past thirty years. Like the farmer in the movie Field of Dreams, Louis Shores always believed that if he could build it, they would come—and they did. In 1961, little more than a decade after Shores, Wayne Shirley, and Carl Milam founded the American Library History Round Table (ALHRT) in 1947, the indefatigable Shores was ready to host the first Library History Seminar at Florida State University.2 From that humble beginning (only sixteen library historians attended the 1961 meeting), the seminars have flourished. Over the years the number of attendees has steadily increased, with recent seminars attracting scholars from all corners of the globe to share their affection for library history. Fortunately, the seminars' proceedings have all been published, and as a group they represent a collection of individual snapshots of the state of the art of library history over the past thirty-five years.3 This essay ana- lyzes the first nine seminars in order to arrive at generalizations about the nature of the craft of American library history. Emphasis is on the characteristics of these historians who laid the groundwork for our con- temporary discipline. Specific information about each seminar and its participants was entered into a spreadsheet and then arranged to reveal information not readily accessible otherwise. Long-time members of the LHRT likely
By the use of bibliometric techniques, authorship characteristics of D-Lib Magazine (D-Lib) are studied. Data was collected by examining issues from the Magazine's launch date, July 1995 to the issue dated May/June 2008. Author productivity, the most productive authors, authors' gender, type of affiliated institutions, authors' geographic distribution, multiple authorship, and the average number of references per article are reported. The impact of D-Lib Magazine was investigated by utilizing Web of Sciences (WoS) databases and its analyzing tools. The most cited D-Lib Magazine authors, D-Lib articles, and the lists of authors, journals, and academic fields that often cite the Magazine are presented.
The purpose of this study was to analyze trends in publication and citation in library and information science journals over a decade (1994-2004) of the literature. This examination revealed the areas of concentration within the research, frequently published subjects through the years, and the characteristics of the top-cited authors and resources during this time. This information allows those in the field to follow the trends in publication, gives researchers the tools to determine which journals might give their work the most exposure and recognition, and can help libraries to make collection management decisions in this subject area.
Studies suggest that co-authorship results in a higher quality article. This study looks for evidence of this in the literature of academic librarianship. Using citation counts to articles from two important journals over a ten-year period, no evidence is found to support the superiority of co-authored articles.
Authorship characteristics from the Asian and Pacific region in the top twenty journals in library and information science are studied. Data was collected searching the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science databases. Major findings of this study are: there are a total of 1,317 articles for the period 1967 to 2005; the most productive countries are, in rank order, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines; and 77.6 percent of authors in the top twenty library and information science journals contributed a single article. Among the library science journals about 50 percent were written by multiple authors, while 73.1 percent of articles in the information science journals were written collaboratively. The most productive individual authors in the region are reported. The strongest collaboration within the region took place between Australia and China; China and Singapore; Australia and New Zealand.
This article looks at recent descriptions and analyses of the library and information science professional literature, primarily journal publications. Other professional literatures are also reviewed. Finally, a brief analysis of the content of six professional journals for articles published in 1993 is included.
This paper considers the status of information science as science through an exploration ofone of the leading journals in the field – the Journal of the American Society for InformationScience (JASIS) from its initial publication as American Documentation (AD) in 1950 through theclosing issue of its Silver Anniversary year in December 1999. It is a bibliometric examination ofAD/JASIS articles. Based on our analysis of articles published in AD and JASIS from 1950 to1999, we find that there has been a slow but perhaps inevitable shift based first on the single nonfundedresearcher and author to a much wider research and publishing participation amongauthors, regions, corporate authors, and countries. This suggests not only cross-fertilization ofideas, but also more complex research questions. A small trend toward greater external fundingfurther reinforces this hypothesis. Information may no longer be "little" science, but it is also not"big" science.
College librarians recognize research and publication as important components of professional growth and communication. Yet, compared to their counterparts in universities, they author fewer articles in the professional literature. This paper examines articles published by college librarians in College & Research Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship from 1986 to 1996 to provide a profile of college librarian authors and to identify factors that contributed to their success in publishing.
The authorship of AJLAIS over seven years was subjected to analysis by gender, collaboration and institutional affiliation. A total of 95 research articles contributed by 118 authors were analysed. Results indicated male dominance of single-authored articles, 83.2 per cent to 16.8 per cent. Of the 16 co-authored articles nine (56.25 per cent) were co-authored by men only, one article (6.25 per cent) was co-authored by women only, and gender mixture was found in six (37.5 per cent) of the articles. A cross-tabulation of institutional affiliation with gender revealed that no woman contributed any article from special and public libraries while there was a relative gender mixture in academic libraries and library schools. There is a need to encourage female publication output in all sectors of librarianship and information science in Africa.
A survey of co-authors in the literature of academic librarianship was conducted to get a better understanding of how and why these authors work together. Findings examine the benefits of collaboration, working relationships, the division of labor, and name order assignment on the article.
Previous research examining librarians' publishing patterns has established the significance of published research for personal advancement. Studies have found, however, that in comparison with male librarians, female librarians tend to publish in disproportionately small numbers. One rationale offered for this discrepancy is that men receive the Ph.D. more frequently than do women (doctorate-holding librarians have been isolated as the most prolific writers). This study tests the hypothesis that men and women exhibit similar publishing patterns if education is held constant at the doctoral level. The population studied is limited to a random sample of library science Ph.D.s who received their degrees between 1969 and 1979. A list of each person's publications was compiled for the five-year period following receipt of the Ph.D. The citations are classified by gender, occupation, and type of publication and authorship. On the basis of this study, the hypothesis that men and women will exhibit similar publishing patterns cannot be rejected. The difference in the number of citations per person for equal numbers of men and women is insignificant. Differences between men and women when comparing type of publication, type of authorship, or quality of articles are also insignificant. There is, however, a significant difference between the number of unpublished women and the number of unpublished men; almost three times more women than men have no citations listed in Library Literature. The hypothesis can be rejected when comparing male and female educators. The difference between mean number of citations per person as well as the difference between nonpublishing male and female educators is highly significant. Male educators publish almost twice as many works as do women. Female educators are almost six times as likely as male educators to have published nothing.
Most descriptive studies of library school faculty show that men publish more than women. These findings are consistent with studies of academics in general. Empirical evidence collected from a variety of disciplines over the years, however, does not support the notion that sex is a predictor of productivity. The best predictors of productivity are other factors, some of which are related to gender. This study analyzed recent productivity studies of library and information science faculty, and investigated gender differences in scholarly publication among a sample of faculty in ALA accredited programs over a five-year period. These studies have implications for hiring and retention of faculty and for faculty development of women. Findings of the studies are inconclusive. Several recent productivity studies indicate a weak relationship exists between gender and number of publications. The current study found no significant gender differences among faculty.
This literature review covers multiple authorship as it relates to research on scholarly publishing within library and information science. The article examines the research on collaboration in other disciplines and considers the methodological impact of various ways of allotting "credit" for multi-authored works and the relationships between multiple authorship and other publication variables, such as quality and impact. Given the complex relationship between collaboration and productivity, the concomitant use of nonbibliometric methods of studying collaboration, as well as the application of meta-analysis, is suggested.
Publication output of library school faculty is examined in relation to several variables. First, publications were sorted by content (information versus library science) in order to determine whether the presence of the word information in the school name indicates an orientation toward information science. Data were collected for faculty listed in the 1983 ALISE directory and for publications indexed in the 1983 Library Literature, Library and Information Science Abstracts, and Information Science Abstracts. In the aggregate, the data show that schools with information in their names publish a significantly greater amount of information science literature. On a school-by-school basis, however, there are exceptions. Findings are also related to the presence of doctoral programs and to faculty rank. Second, descriptive data are presented on publication output by sex and rank. The data suggest that women, who are less prolific publishers and less oriented toward information science, have been less successful in rising through academic ranks than men. Tables showing schools' relative publication output and the top fifteen producers of library and information science publications as indexed in 1983 are included. Directions for further research are noted.
The authors examine characteristics of authorship, editorial decisions, and reviewer assessments for accepted and rejected papers for College & Research Libraries (C&RL) based on over a decade of internal records (private correspondence and reviewer assessments) made available to them. Noting the wider literature dealing with publishing in refereed journals, this study makes com-parisons to that literature and suggests directions for future research. The authors found that C&RL editors and reviewers conducted their work without major disagreement or rancor. Refereeing has indeed served the journal's readership well.
Sixteen library periodicals were analyzed with respect to various characteristics of their authors, including sex, occupation, affiliation, and geographic location. Subject coverage was also examined, as well as research methodologies employed (if any), and page length of the article. A total of 1, 725 articles are written by2, 072 authors, of whom 961 (47.83%) are male and 1, 048 (52.17%) are female. In spite of the fact that librarianship is female-dominated, there are almost as many articles written by men as by women, although a slow closing of the gap between the proportions of male and female contributors, especially among special librarians, is apparent. No differences in the percentages of research-based studies or non-research based writing by either sex are evident. Academic librarians account for the major share of publication activity (over 61%), although on a percentage basis, library school faculty are the most productive. Full professors publish the most in library schools, closely followed by assistant professors. The Northeast and the Midwest claim the largest share of authors, not too surprising with the large share of academic institutions and library schools located in these two geographic regions. Research-based articles are on the increase, with survey methodology reported the most frequently. The subjects of automation, management, and cataloging are still the most popular. Individual journal titles are also analyzed with respect to the types of authors they publish.
Examines trends in authorship, reference practices, and quantitative techniques in "College and Research Libraries" from 1939 through 1988. Specific characteristics discussed include: percentages of unreferenced articles; average number of references per article; sex and institution of source authors; extent of collaborative authorship; and percentages of articles displaying quantitative methodologies. (six references) (CLB)
Replicating to a high degree the results of the Olsgaard profile of authorship characteristics in academic library journals, this study analyzed five journals of interest to special librarians to determine gender, geographic location, and occupation of author contributors. Results indicate that women are consistently underrepresented in the library science literature. (RAA)
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Salary Survey 1989 (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1990), 36; Association of Research Libraries, ARL
Annual Salary Survey 1994 (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1995), 34.