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The Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) is completing 50 years of publication. Aspects of authorship of papers in JASIS were studied by examining one volume from each decade of JASIS's existence. For each substantial paper in these volumes, data were collected regarding number of authors, type of affiliation of each author, author's gender, and author's country if it was not the United States. Also noted were data on length, content, and "colonicity" of the title, and data on the extent of citing and self-citing in the paper. Findings are presented, and are compared with findings of other studies of JASIS and related publications. Based on this survey of JASIS, the literature of information science has grown exponentially, as would be expected in a new or developing discipline. Authorship has been growing even a little faster, because multiple authorship of information science papers has become much more common. Representation of authors from different countries has increased greatly. But, compared to various library journals, JASIS is not outstanding in either multiple authorship or degree of foreign representation. Individual authors, at least in JASIS, are increasingly likely to produce multiple papers; the extent, explanation, and significance of this phenomenon warrant further inquiry. The percentage of authors who are female has grown, but is higher in many related journals than it is in JASIS. Trends in the titling of papers suggest that writings have become more informative, but also considerably wordier. "Scholarliness" of papers has increased on the basis of a rapid rise in use of colons in titles. More importantly, scholarship has increased greatly on the basis of the disappearance of papers that lack citations and the exponential growth in the average number of references per paper. It appears that the field of information science underwent an important transition in authorship characteristics after the 1950s. The proportion of authors with academic affiliations has grown so large that other types of affiliations, although significant in the 1950s, are now hardly represented at all. Contributions by authors whose professional concerns are primarily with applied aspects of information science have thus become rarer. Such changes may have serious implications for information science and for JASIS, and deserve study.
... White and McCain's (1998) author co-citation analyses of twelve information science journals found that only 20 of the top 120 most cited authors were women (16.7%). Lipetz's (1999) JASIS study found that the percentage of all authors who were women changed from 20.6% (1955) to 10.4% (1965) to 18.8% (1975) to 32.4% (1985). Further, the proportion of JASIS papers that featured at least one female author changed from 33. 3% (1955) to 14.3% (1965) to 25% (1975) to 40.4% (1985). ...
... The proportion of papers featuring both women and men authors was also nominal: 19% (1955), 8.6% (1965), 6.8% (1975), and 14.9% (1985). Despite an overall increase in women's authorship, moreover, Lipetz (1999) concluded that the percentage of women authors in JASIS remained lower than in cognate fields' journals (such as the SLA's). ...
This paper centers on feminism in post‐World War II information science, namely in the context of the American Documentation Institute (ADI) and the subsequent American Society for Information Science (ASIS). We focus on the years between 1962, when ADI elected its first woman president, and 1988, when it celebrated its 50th anniversary—a period that overlapped with that of second‐wave feminism in the United States. This research makes three scholarly interventions. First, we contribute to the history of information science, particularly to the history of women in the field. Second, we train a feminist epistemology lens on the field. This involves considering women's participation, representation, and marginalization in information science, on the one hand, and the ways in which information scientists approached women's lives, experiences, and bodies, on the other. Third, we situate information science in the broader history of science, juxtaposing ADI/ASIS with other scientific societies' engagement with feminism. In contrast to the national political, social, and cultural changes it wrought, feminism made little headway in information science during this period. The field largely denied women equity, inclusion, and belonging.
... One of the main factors that contributed to the rapid growth of the field of informetrics over the last few decades ( according to Lipetz(1999), is the advent and the exponential growth of the journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology which promulgated the publication of documents dealing with informetrics. The growth of the journal indirectly encouraged the publication of papers and in terms of number of authors and even in terms of average number of references per paper. ...
... Informetrics thus owe much of its growth to the advent of the 'information society. LIpetz (1999) believes that the average number of authors per paper is increasing as there seems to be a greater thrust on the need for collaboration. One can thus say that the field of informetrics today comprises the fast growing field of webometrics, (Hood and Wilson , 2001). ...
Among the many statistical analyses of scientific publications, bibliometrics holds a privileged place for counting scientific papers. Bibliometrics is one of the sub-fields concerned with measuring the output of scientific publications. Bibliometrics ows its systematic development mainly to the works of its founders V V Naliv, D J D Price and Eugene Garfield in the 1950s. Since 1958 Bibliometrics has evolved as a field, taught in library and information science schools and it emerged as a tool for scientific evaluation for a number research groups around the world. This process was made possible by the work of Eugene Garfield and his Science Citation Index. Castell, an American psychologist was credited with the launching of Scientometrics, when he produced statistics on a number of scientists and their geographical distribution, and ranked the scientists according to their performance. He introduced two dimensions into the measurements of science, namely, quantity and quality. The term informertics was introduced by Blackert, Siegel and Nacke(1979) but gained popularity by the launch of the international informetrics conferences in 1987. A recent development in informetrics called the webometrics/cybermetrics, has become a part of the main stream library and information science research area. The term webometrics refers to the quantitative studies of the nature of scientific communication over the internet and its impact on diffusion of ideas and information. This paper reviews the evolution of bibliometrics and its fast growing offshoots, scientometrics, informaetrics and webometrics.
... The increase in scholarly collaboration is a marked trend in the sciences and social sciences, including the domain of Library and Information Science (LIS) (Cronin, Shaw & La Barre, 2003;Ding, Foo, & Chowdhury, 1998;Lipetz 1999, Liu, 2003. Collaboration, as measured through patterns of co-authorship, has been investigated by many scholars (Cronin, 2001;Glanzel, 2002;Hart, 2007;Lipetz 1999) and does not appear to be decreasing. ...
... The increase in scholarly collaboration is a marked trend in the sciences and social sciences, including the domain of Library and Information Science (LIS) (Cronin, Shaw & La Barre, 2003;Ding, Foo, & Chowdhury, 1998;Lipetz 1999, Liu, 2003. Collaboration, as measured through patterns of co-authorship, has been investigated by many scholars (Cronin, 2001;Glanzel, 2002;Hart, 2007;Lipetz 1999) and does not appear to be decreasing. In the more than 40 years since Price and Beaver (1966) and Zuckerman (1967) published the first studies suggesting a positive correlation between academic collaboration and both productivity and quality of research, there have been no shortage of studies examining this issue through various lenses. ...
There has been a longstanding debate about the merits of collaborative research, with most studies focusing on the citation advantage of such research. However, citation studies provide only one lens on the issues. New methods of inquiry are necessary to incorporate other audiences of scholarly literature. Reader response surveys were used to evaluate the quality of collaborative versus single-authored research. Graduate students in three sections of the same library and information science course during the 2010 academic year used surveys to rate each week's assigned readings according to overall quality, usefulness for class discussion, and enjoyability. Students voted whether to keep each article in the reading list for the following semester. Data were analyzed to compare results for single-author versus multi-author works. Multi-author works were favored over single-author. These findings provide another layer of empirical support for the benefits of collaborative research and inform both scientometricians and educators.
... Many researchers even used JASIST for their bibliometric analyses (e.g. Al-Ghamdi et al., 1998;Bates, 1999b;Harter & Hooton, 1992;Koehler, 2001;Lipetz, 1999;Nisonger, 1999;Persson, 1994), since this journal is regarded as the exemplar of universal information science. To examine the research community of this journal, some of them further focused on the characteristics of authorship in JASIST articles. ...
... For example, Al-Ghamdi et al. (1998) conducted an analysis to investigate JASIST authorship and found that the number of female researchers, the number of collaborative articles, the number of foreign authors, and the number of authors affiliated with LIS schools all increased over the time span from 1970 to 1996. Some of their findings were also confirmed by Lipetz (1999), who demonstrated that international authors have become more common in JASIST and the number of authors with academic affiliations has particularly increased since the 1950s. Afterwards, He and Spink (2002) analyzed JASIST publication data and obtained results consistent with Lipetz's findings. ...
Introduction. This paper reports an analysis of Asian authorship characteristics and trends in JASIST. The in- vestigation of the papers written by Asian scholars in this eminent international journal clearly reveals the productivity as well as co-authorship pattern of Asian researchers in information science. Method. This study uses bibliometric method. It compiles 1,869 papers with 3,422 frequencies of authorship in JASIST from 1981 to 2005. The bibliographic records were exported from ISI Web of Science and com- plemented by the printed and electronic version of JASIS and JASIST. Results. The findings show Asian researchers have considerably enhanced their influence especially since the period of 1996-2000, although English speaking countries are obviously dominant in JASIST articles. Asian information science research has moved toward internationalization significantly since 2001, with the increase of the frequency of international co-authorship and the growth of collaborative countries. Among the investigated Asian countries, Japan is relative productively but had no collaborative work with non-Asian countries in JASIST. Japanese researchers tend to accomplish their studies individually or collaborated with other colleagues in the same country. Furthermore, this study finds that information technology related fields are the most commonplace backgrounds among these Asian scholars. Conclusion. This study indicates that information science research in Asia has moved toward internationali- zation, and Asian researchers have made significant contributions to global information science study with their information technology related backgrounds.
... En el caso específico de la evaluación de revistas académicas, la bibliometría tiene un papel importante encuadrándose en el contexto científico de los denominados «estudios sociales de la ciencia» (Bordons y Zulueta, 1999). Dentro del área de conocimiento de las Ciencias de la Documentación, se encuentran diversos trabajos dirigidos al análisis de revistas aplicando indicadores bibliométricos (DeHart, 1992;Lipetz, 1999;Koehler, 2001;Bonnevie-Nebelong, 2003); en relación a los estudios sobre revistas españolas también han destacado diversos trabajos (Pérez-Álvarez-Ossorio, 1997;Giménez-Toledo y Román-Román;2000;López-López et al., 2001;Jiménez-Hidalgo, 2007;Ollé Castellà y Porrás, 2008;Guallar et al., 2017;López-Robles et al., 2019;Cascón-Katchadourian et al., 2020;Guallar et al., 2020). ...
Se presenta un estudio de la Revista General de Información y Documentación (RGID), desde 2005 hasta 2022, con el objetivo de calificar la estructura de su campo de investigación y valorar la trayectoria de las áreas temáticas tratadas. La metodología fue el análisis de co-palabras, la construcción de redes bibliométricas y la creación de mapas científicos. Se extrajeron 514 documentos de la base de datos Web of Science (WoS). Se seleccionaron las palabras-clave asignadas por los autores de los documentos y se dividieron en tres subperiodos: 2005-2010, 2011-2016 y 2017-2022. En los resultados se obtuvieron1701 palabras-claves de autor y 37 redes bibliométricas. En el periodo 2005-2010, la estructura del campo de investigación se distribuyó en el mapa científico con muy pocos temas centrales y especializados, considerándose una organización incipiente y poco desarrollada. En el periodo 2011-2016, la estructura del campo de investigación se distribuyó en el mapa científico con un número más variado de temas centrales y especializados, pero todavía insuficiente, considerándose una organización en vías de desarrollo. En el periodo 2017-2022, la estructura del campo de investigación se mostró en el mapa con todo tipo de familia de temas (centrales, especializados, transversales, emergentes o en desaparición), valorándose como una organización dinámica, compleja y heterogénea. En cuanto a la evolución de las áreas temáticas, el mapa presentó un sólido progreso entre los dos últimos periodos. La morfología del campo temático tratado en RGID, se esquematizó en tres fases: inicio (2005-2010), vías de desarrollo (2011-2016) y consolidación (2017-2022).
... Verma and Tamrakar (2009) also found less than five percent in Defence Science Journal. In library and information science, Lipetz (1999) found that papers with no references virtually disappeared over five decades, yet Thanuskodi (2010) found about 10 percent papers with no references in Library Philosophy and Practice. ...
Bibliometric studies often exclude documents with little or no scientific content. Yet, identifying and classifying the unscholarly publication is a complex matter, and misclassifications often occur. Reference-based classifications are frequently proposed and implemented in bibliometric studies. Unfortunately, with little support for the actual classifications. In search of valid separation of scholarly/unscholarly publications, this study explores the correlation between number of references and citations received. Data was drawn from Scopus, and two separate analyses were conducted. The first analysis focus on journal articles published in the year 2000 from each of the four major subject areas in Scopus: Health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. The second analysis focus on all journal articles published in either 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 or 2020. None of the analyses identified a natural cutoff point between scholarly and unscholarly publications. There is no significant point in the distribution that could more clearly distinguish scholarly from unscholarly publications than prior suggestions. In addition, the results of this study demonstrate how bibliometric analyses are impacted by defining scholarly publications on the number of references across different subject areas.
... The clear trend towards multi-authored publications supports the theory that KM is maturing as Serenko and Dumay (2015a) and Lipetz (1999) claim that there is a positive relationship between the number of authors per article and a field's maturity. This theory stems from the notion that as a domain matures, competition for journal publications increase and acceptance rates decline. ...
... The clear trend towards multi-authored publications supports the theory that KM is maturing as Serenko and Dumay (2015a) and Lipetz (1999) claim that there is a positive relationship between the number of authors per article and a field's maturity. This theory stems from the notion that as a domain matures, competition for journal publications increase and acceptance rates decline. ...
The purpose of this study was to analyse knowledge management research trends to understand the development of the field using a combination of scientometric, bibliometric, and visualisation techniques, subsequently developing a normative framework of knowledge management from the results.
282 articles between the years 2010–2015 were retrieved, analysed, and visualised to produce the state of knowledge management during the selected timeframe. The results of this study provide a visualisation of the current research trends to understand the development of the knowledge management discipline. There are signals that the literature about knowledge management is progressing towards academic maturity. This study is one of the first studies to combine bibliometric and scientometric methods to assess productivity along with visualisation, and subsequently provide a knowledge management framework drawing from the results of these methods.
... Prior research has found a positive correlation between the average number of authors per publication and a field's maturity (Lipetz, 1999). Serenko et al. (2010) state that input from multiple scholars is needed in order to improve the quality of a publication and ensure its acceptance due to the increase in competition and the decline in acceptance rates as a discipline matures. ...
As a young and interdisciplinary field, Knowledge Management (KM) holds a crucial role in scientific research and development of knowledge-intensive economies. This study elaborates on the methods used in previous studies regarding the research trends of KM and their contribution to the discipline by examining the KM literature. The purpose of the study is to determine the current research trends of KM by analysing KM citation classics and examining their characteristics as well as presenting a holistic framework of KM publications from the results of citation analysis. A total of 152 articles published in peer review journals between the years 2010-2014 were analysed. As a result of the analysis, a holistic KM framework was developed in order to contribute to a consensus of KM field. The results of the study reveals that the coverage of KM articles expanded into a broad spectrum of concepts, disciplines and environment.
... 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.
... Overall, the field of CE has evolved significantly over the last decades and its maturity as a research field has been continuously growing as evidenced by the prevalence of entrepreneurship journals among the top cited and publishing journals (Busenitz et al. 2014), by the increasing average number of authors per publication (Lipetz 1999;Serenko et al. 2010) as well as by numerous attempts of scholars to resolve definitional issues in the field and define its boundaries. The intellectual structure of the field demonstrates theoretical diversity based on various management theories, such as resource-based view, knowledge-based view, organizational learning, and dynamic capabilities. ...
Research on corporate entrepreneurship-venturing activities by established corporations-has received increasing scholarly attention. We employ bibliometric methods to analyze the literature on corporate entrepreneurship published over the last five decades. Based on the results of citation and co-citation analyses, we reveal central works in the field and how they are interconnected. We investigate the underlying intellectual structure of the field. Our findings provide evidence of the growing maturity and interdisciplinarity of corporate entrepre-neurship and provide insight into research themes. We find that resource-based view and its extensions still remain the predominant theoretical perspectives in the field. Drawing on these findings, we suggest directions for future research.
... Attention was given to such topics as the usage of different terms and keywords (Hood and Wilson 2001;Martín-Martín et al. 2016;Yang et al. 2017), most prominent journals (Peritz 1990;Hood and Wilson 2001;Boell 2007;Bar-Ilan 2008;Milojević and Leydesdorff 2013;Martín-Martín et al. 2016), social and cognitive identity of the filed, which include the analysis of core researchers and the groups of authors integrated with each other, shared topics of interest and cohesive discourse, shared literature and knowledge base (Bar-Ilan 2008;Milojević and Leydesdorff 2013;Leydesdorff et al. 2014;Martín-Martín et al. 2016;Yang et al. 2017;Khasseh et al. 2017aKhasseh et al. , b, 2018. In some cases the nature of iMetrics is studied through the analysis of a single journal, such as Scientometrics (Persson 1994;Wouters and Leydesdorff 1994) or Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIST) (Harter and Hooten 1992;Lipetz 1999;Nisonger 1999;Liu 2003). In contrast, other studies regard iMetrics as a part of larger research disciplines, such as Information Science (IS) (White and McCain 1998;Van den Besselaar and Heimeriks 2006;Zhao and Strotmann 2008), Library Science (LS), Iibrary and Information Science (LIS) (Åström 2002;Moya-Anegón et al. 2006;Janssens et al. 2006;Åström 2007;Milojević et al. 2011), Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Science Studes (Van den Besselaar 2000). ...
Different research traditions have developed over time to study the quantitative aspects of information and knowledge production, such as scientometrics, bibliometrics, librametrics, informetrics, cybermetrics, webometrics, or altmetrics. These information metrics, or iMetrics, as they were labeled by Milojević and Leydesdorff in Scientometrics 95(1):141–157, 2013, are unified by the usage of quantitative data analysis, applying various statistical methods and techniques and are often used to supplement and complement each other. Representing different research traditions, they jointly form a common research field, a “discipline with many names”. In this article, we look at the development of iMetrics field and its evolution over time using bibliometric network analysis and identify its common basis, formed by the most important publications, journals, scholars and topics. The dataset consists of articles from the Web of Science database (26,414 records with complete descriptions). Analyzing the citation network, we evaluate the field’s growth and identify the most cited works. Using the Search path count (SPC) approach, we extract the Main path, Key routes paths, and Link islands in the citation network. The results show that in the last forty years the number of published papers increased, and it doubles every 8 years; the number of single author papers dropped from 50 to 10 %, and the number of papers authored by 3 or more authors is increasing. We make the conclusions about the field’s development and its current state. We also present the main authors, journals and keywords from the field, which form its common basis.
... The rise in multiple authorship is indicative of the increase in the number of collaborative researches appearing in the journal over the past 8 years. This result is consistent with the findings of previous research conducted in the field (Lipetz, 1999;Weller, 2001;Schubert, 2002). Oromaner (1975) found an increasing relation between the number of authors and the number of citations received. ...
This paper uses bibliometric methods to study the status and development trends of the Bhutan Journal of Research and Development (BJRD). Firstly, the general characteristics of the journal are investigated through the analysis of descriptive statistics. Then, the subject matter of the articles are explored. Finally, the impact factor score and h-index of the journal are determined by using ISI's JCR formula and Harzing's Publish or Perish (PoP) citation analysis program.
... In general, research in the LIS field has followed similar patterns of increased collaboration as other social science fields. Lipetz's (1999) evaluation of five decades of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) found that collaboration had increased to more than 50% in later volumes. ...
Using a scientometric approach, this study examines scholarly publications by library and information science (LIS) researchers affiliated with Iranian institutions that were published in non-Iranian journals and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database, together with publications in Iranian LIS journals from 1980 through 2016. The results show that Iranian authors published 538 LIS documents indexed in WoS and another 7,837 in national journals. The research article was the predominant document type at both the national and international levels. The total number of international publications in LIS by all countries was 313,449; Iran ranked 34th among the countries for publications in LIS.
... As Serenko et al. (2010) defined, there are three indicators of this maturity process: changes in co-authorship patterns, inquiry methods, and roles of practitioners. Regarding co-authorship patterns, the average number of authors per article in SE papers has been increasing since 2007 to a general average of 1.9, indicating maturity because, as Lipetz (1999) demonstrated, there is a positive relationship between the average number of authors per paper and the field's maturity. This might indicate that multiple researchers are taking part in each work in order to improve the quality, increase the level of specialization, and then increase the chances of future acceptance of publications. ...
... Prior research has found a positive correlation between the average number of authors per publication and a field's maturity (Lipetz, 1999). Serenko et al. (2010) state that input from multiple scholars is needed in order to improve the quality of a publication and ensure its acceptance due to the increase in competition and the decline in acceptance rates as a discipline matures. ...
As a young and interdisciplinary field, Knowledge Management (KM) holds a crucial role in scientific research and development of knowledge-intensive economies. This study elaborates on the methods used in previous studies regarding the research trends of KM and their contribution to the discipline by examining the KM literature. The purpose of the study is to determine the current research trends of KM by analysing KM citation classics and examining their characteristics as well as presenting a holistic framework of KM publications from the results of citation analysis. A total of 152 articles published in peer review journals between the years 2010-2014 were analysed. As a result of the analysis, a holistic KM framework was developed in order to contribute to a consensus of KM field. The results of the study reveals that the coverage of KM articles expanded into a broad spectrum of concepts, disciplines and environment.
... The collaboration index increased from 1.59 authors per paper in the early 2000s to 2.74 in 2014 (Figure 1). Figure 2 shows the evolution of domestic compared with international collaboration as well as papers written without collaboration. As reported in other studies (Koehler et al., 2000), This increase in papers by multiple authors has also been reported by Lipetz (1999), Nisonger (1999) and Liu (2003) in other studies based on JASIST. The emergence of multi-authored works may indicate the shift observed by Koehler et al. (2000) from articles derived from non-funded research by single authors to articles that are increasingly funded and multi-authored from various regions or countries. ...
The study, based on the Web of Science, analyses 758 articles published from 2000 to 2014. Our analysis includes the publications' output, authorship, institutional and country patterns of production, citations and collaboration. A Social Network Analysis was conducted to identify primary groups of researchers and institutions and the collaboration between countries. The study reveals that 1097 authors and 453 Institutions have contributed to the journal. The collaboration index has increased progressively, and the average degree of collaboration during the study period was 1.98. The majority of the papers were contributed by professionals affiliated with a university. Highly cited papers address online and digital environments, e-learning systems, mobile services, web 2.0 and citation analyses. This work is a bibliometric analysis of a leading journal in library and information science, Online Information Review.
... Many of the studies published have limited scope, being focused on a specific source, topic or specialty. Thus, many investigations have focused on just one journal, as is the case of Harter and Hooten (1992)-emphasizing the authors' institutional affiliations and the funding of their work-, or of Lipetz (1999), J. Liu (2003), Chua and Yan (2008), Park (2010) and Swain et al. (2012). Others, meanwhile, focus on a particular series of conferences, such as Smeaton et al.'s article (2002) on Information Retrieval: a topic also discussed by Sugimoto and McCain (2010), applying social-network analysis (SNA) techniques. ...
This paper offers an overview of the bibliometric study of the domain of library and information science (LIS), with the aim of giving a multidisciplinary perspective of the topical boundaries and the main areas and research tendencies. Based on a retrospective and selective search, we have obtained the bibliographical references (title and abstract) of academic production on LIS in the database LISA in the period 1978–2014, which runs to 92,705 documents. In the context of the statistical technique of topic modeling, we apply latent Dirichlet allocation, in order to identify the main topics and categories in the corpus of documents analyzed. The quantitative results reveal the existence of 19 important topics, which can be grouped together into four main areas: processes, information technology, library and specific areas of information application.
... Analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods. Many research fields use bibliometric methods to explore the impact of their field, [3] the impact of a set of researchers, or the impact of a particular paper. Bibliometrics also has a wide range of other applications, such as in descriptive linguistics, the development of thesauri, and evaluation of reader usage. ...
Bibliometrics is most popular among the scholars, researchers and academics in the faculty of Library and Information Science research. The current study is a bibliometrics analysis of four international journals such as: 1st “Language Sciences” (LS) and 2nd “Linguistics and Education” (L&E), 3rd ‘Political Geography’ (PG), and 4th ‘Religion’ (Rgn).The present paper attempts to evaluate the publications indexed under the database of Science Direct Top 25 hottest Papers journal literature to understand the global approach of research output in four core journals. This is a comprehensive survey work rendering bibliographic records from Science Direct top 25 hottest papers database during 2005-2013, and this paper strenuously tries to give a complete sketch of the evaluation of research outputs. The key findings of the research divulge that, out of a total number of 3300 papers undertaken for the present research work, 900 were taken from 1st three journals and 600 shared by the 4th journal “Religion”. It is indicated from the study that top 15 authors of all four journals identically contributed 349 (38.77%), 281 (31.22%), 384 (42.66 %) and 239 (39.83 %) papers to their credit which counts more than one third of the whole contribution except 2nd journal. In all journals the greater number 79, 76, 72, and 85 percent papers were produced by single authors, while the collaborated papers were only 21, 24, 28, and 15 percent the study unmasks. Considering the authors’ institutional affiliation it is ascertained that, the authors’ contributed to the journals was affiliated to 153, 152, 169 and 80 unique institutions encompassing intercontinental regions, which again determines maximum number of institutional contributors are involved in 3rd journal, while minimum institutional contributors in 4th journal respectively. Besides, the geographical analysis indicates the involvement of cross national regions in the research practices is well found considerably benchmarking. Moreover, the study evidently shows that the overwhelming and most productive geographical region contributors’ USA shared 208 (23.11%), 354 (39.33%) and 231 (38.5 %) papers in 1st ,2nd and 4th journal with posed 1st rank, while UK achieved 1st rank having contribution 396 (44%) to the 3rd journal respectively. Resultantly, it could be professed here that, the both regions (USA and UK) are considerably granted as leading productive nations and prolific in the realm of global research.
... Third, we observed a decline in single-authored studies over time and a clear trend towards publication of multi-authored articles. Prior scientometric research argues that coauthorship preference is an important phenomenon reflecting the maturity of a scholarly domain (Narin et al. 1991;Inzelt et al. 2009); particularly, there is a positive relationship between the average number of authors per manuscript and the field's maturity (Lipetz 1999). First, as a domain matures, competition for journal space increases and acceptance rates decline. ...
This study provides an overview of the knowledge management literature from 1980 through 2014. We employ bibliometric and text mining analyses on a sample of 500 most cited articles to examine the impact of factors such as number of authors, references, pages, and keywords on the number of citations that they received. We also investigate major trends in knowledge management literature including the contribution of different countries, variations across publication years, and identifying active research areas and major journal outlets. Our study serves as a resource for future studies by shedding light on how trends in knowledge management research have evolved over time and demonstrating the characteristics of the most cited articles in this literature. Specifically, our results reveal that the most cited articles are from United States and United Kingdom. The most prolific year in terms of the number of published articles is 2009 and in terms of the number of citations is 2012. We also found a positive relationship between the number of publications’ keywords, references, and pages and the number of citations that they have received. Finally, the Journal of Knowledge Management has the largest share in publishing the most cited articles in this field.
... Third, with European authors and institutions having gained the initial advantage in the SI field, they tend to receive further opportunities (Bonitz, Bruckner, & Scharnhorst, 1997). And finally, the high involvement of US and UK scholars from 2010 may be due to the inclusion of SI in social policy agendas as a response to the economic downturn after 2008 (Bonifacio, 2014;Borzaga & Bodini, 2014 According to Serenko, Bontis, Booker, Sadeddin, and Hardie (2010), change in coauthorship patterns is an indicator of maturity in a field with a positive relationship between the average number of authors per publication and maturity of a field (Lipetz, 1999). The co-authorship network identified in this study contains only 20 highly connected co-authors. ...
Despite the socio-economic importance of social innovation as a sustainable mechanism of addressing social challenges, the field lacks theory and suffers from conceptual ambiguity. Employing a bibliometric analysis, this study examined the patterns of social innovation research of 949 publications indexed in Scopus from 1966-2015. Results identified that the social innovation domain is in development, demonstrating percentage exponential growth in the volume of publications occurring in 1966-2004 (10%), 2005-2010 (22%) and 2011-2015 (68%). Nearly 55% of the research was conducted by European scholars. The field is multidisciplinary, with key knowledge clusters residing in urban studies, ecological resilience, transition management, and user innovation. The discipline is supported by a large number of journals from various disciplines due to the absence of dedicated social innovation journals. Policy implications are offered for new and existing scholars on patterns of social innovation and the direction for future research; and publishers on potential publishing avenues.
... An imbalance exists between the number of papers published and the patents granted in organizations. Lipetz, B. (1999) has observed the author productivity of JASIS over the five decades from 1950 to 1999 through reviewing one volume out of each decade: 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, and 1995. The findings revealed that the percentage of authors with more than one article exceeded 20% in 1995, while a different pattern of authors with more than one article began in 1995 with a ratio of 2% and it had increased in each decade since, to more than 9% in 1995. ...
The study has been analyzed with 546 contributions published in the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP) selected four years for a period between 2009 and 2012. An attempt is made to analyze and discuss the each article, year wise and volume wise authorship, author’s productivity and the single and multi-authored papers of the journal. The findings of the results revealed that the maximum number of contributions i.e., 149 (27.29 %) were published in the year 2012 whereas the minimum number of 121 (22.17 %) was published in the year 2011. The degree of collaboration (DC) ranges, the relative growth rates (RGR) and doubling time (DT) has also measured. The highest number of author productivity i.e., 420 (6.56) were published in the year 2010.
... First, women tend to (on average) have slightly different research interests than do men, both in ecology (Bonnet, Shine & Lourdais 2004;West et al. 2013; details at www.eigenfactor.org/gender/#) and in other fields (Lipetz 1999;Rigg, McCarragher & Krmenec 2011;Long et al. 2015). This leads to a non-random association of women across subdisciplines. ...
There is a widespread perception in the academic community that peer review is subject to many biases and can be influenced by the identity and biographic features (such as gender) of manuscript authors.
We examined how patterns of authorship differ between men and women, and whether author gender influences editorial and peer review outcomes and/or the peer review process for papers submitted to the journal Functional Ecology between 2010 and 2014.
Women represented approximately a third of all authors on papers submitted to Functional Ecology . Relative to overall frequency of authorship, women were underrepresented as solo authors (26% were women). On multi‐authored papers, women were also underrepresented as last/senior authors (25% were women) but overrepresented as first authors (43% were women). Women first authors were less likely than men first authors to serve as corresponding and submitting author of their papers; this difference was not influenced by the gender of the last author. Women were more likely to be authors on papers if the last author was female.
Papers with female authors (i) were equally likely to be sent for peer review, (ii) obtained equivalent peer review scores and (iii) were equally likely to be accepted for publication, compared to papers with male authors. There was no evidence that male editors or male reviewers treated papers authored by women differently than did female editors and reviewers, and no evidence that more senior editors reached different decisions than younger editors after review, or cumulative through the entire process, for papers authored by men vs. women.
Papers authored by women were more likely to be reviewed by women. This is primarily because women were more likely to be invited to review if the authors on a paper were female than if the authors were male.
Patterns of authorship, and the role undertaken as author (e.g., submitting and serving as corresponding author), differ notably between men and women for papers submitted to Functional Ecology . However, consistent with a growing body of literature indicating that peer review underlying the scholarly publishing process is largely gender‐neutral, outcomes of editorial and peer review at Functional Ecology were not influenced by author gender.
... Results of the study also showed an increasing publication trend of females, non-American authors and authors from LIS schools. Lipetz (1999) studied 5-year issues (1955, 1965, 1975, 1985 and 1995) of the JASIST with the objective of comparing the authorship patterns of the journal in 5 decades. Findings revealed that the number of papers published per year in the JASIST had grown exponentially from 21 (1955) to 68 (1995). ...
This paper aims to study the performance of the International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM) over a decade using a scientometric approach. It also aims to study the co-authorship network of authors and institutions using different macro- and micro-level Social Network Analysis metrics. A total of 173 articles published in 23 issues of the IJISM covering the period 2003-2012 were analyzed in this study. The findings revealed that multi-author articles (69.1%) published in the journal far outnumbered single-author articles. Two-author papers comprise the highest percentage (46.2%) of total papers compared with other authorship patterns. The results showed that the co-authorship network of authors in the IJISM is a small world network by demonstrating its short distance and scale free properties. Moreover, the famous notion of six degree of separation can be valid in this network. The study also identified central and critical authors and institutions in IJISM's collaboration network based on centrality, citation impact and productivity measures.
... An analysis of an African publication Author Gender in American Documentation, 1950-1969353 (Atinmo and Jimba 2002 found that a run of seven years of the African Journal of Library, Archival and Information Science included approximately 20% participation of female authors vs 80% by males. One survey study that briefly addressed gender comparisons in AD and JASIS (Lipetz 1999 Looking at two e-journals, an analysis (Reece-Evans ...
The field of information science has been documented in several ways during its existence and in some ways has mirrored that of other scientific disciplines during the same period. This article examines variables related to author gender of information science articles in American Documentation (AD) during its entire run, 1950 through 1969. Published by the American Documentation Institute, AD was a primary information science journal of its time, changing its name in 1970 to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), corresponding with the change of the parent organization`s name to the American Society for Information Science (1968). AD was preceded by an earlier "information science" publication, the Journal of Documentary Reproduction (JDR), 1938-1942, issued by the American Library Association. Studies indicate that females contributed about 8% for the entire run of articles in JDR (1938-1942) and about 22% for the first twenty-seven years of JASIS (1970-1996). The present study explores the nature of female contributions to AD for the middle period (1950-1969). It has been determined that for the entire run of the journal under the name AD, female authors comprised about 17% of the contributors, which places their publishing percentage for this period between the earlier and later periods, thus expectedly filling the gap.
... Concurrently, it was found that 103 (37.45 per cent) of 275 articles have not yet received a single citation. Had these articles been cited at least once each, LR could have significantly improved its impact factor, as in the case of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( JASIST) where all of its articles are cited (Lipetz, 1999). Therefore, this specific area needs to be taken into consideration by the LR editorial board in order to enhance its impact factor in future. ...
Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the scholarly communications in Library Review ( LR ) from 2007 to 2011 and to reveal key aspects of its publication trends.
Design/methodology/approach
– The study analyses five volumes of LR from the year 2007 to 2011 and employs the required bibliometric measures to analyze specific aspects of publishing trends of LR for the stated period.
Findings
– The study finds that single authored articles occupy the prominent position indicating the supremacy of solo research in LR . The degree of collaboration in the publications of this journal is found to be 0.36. It is evident that LR has accommodated over 22 citations per article during the publication phase from 2007 to 2011. In regard to country productivity, the UK leads the table, followed by the USA and Nigeria. However, Poland occupies the bottom position in the ranking. Hence, it is evident that the major chunks of contributions reflected in the publications of LR during the stated period are emanated from the UK and the USA.
Research limitations/implications
– The study focuses on the publication patterns of LR over a period of five years. Patterns of research output in 275 publications are analyzed. Further studies can include a comparative study of LR with that of a contemporary journal in the field of library and information science (LIS).
Practical implications
– Teachers and research scholars of LIS can benefit from insights into the scholarly contributions of LR that has accommodated 312 authors representing 49 countries.
Originality/value
– The study yields some interesting findings of academic publishing in LR . It can help the readers of LR to understand the most striking contributions, highly cited journals, the most prolific authors, country productivity, and assorted parameters.
... Bibliometric analyses of JASIS have been conducted before, where the main emphasis was on analyzing different characteristics of authors. In an article published in 1999 Lipetz [1] studied JASIS authorship during the first five decades of JASIS (and American Documentation) by selecting one volume from each decade. His paper appeared in a special issue of JASIS for the 50th anniversary of the journal. ...
Editor's Summary
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( JASIST ) started in 2001 after being published since 1950 under two other titles. Prior bibliometric analyses of JASIS focused on author and article characteristics and trends and on geographic and keyword distributions. The current study examines article citations from 2001 through 2010, drawing on three major citation databases and readership counts. Of 1,459 articles, 14 were cited at the top of at least one database, and seven were among both the top‐cited papers and those with the highest readership counts. The top‐cited papers focused on the web, informetrics, link analysis, theory and knowledge management. The most often read were on the web as a topic, theory, link analysis, informetrics and databases. Though not used in this research, alternative metrics such as mention counts in social media, Slideshare, Wikipedia and ReaderMeter can complement traditional citation analysis.
... Ding, Foo, and Chowdhury (1998) found 48% of information retrieval research collaborative. Lipetz's (1999) evaluation of five decades of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) found collaboration had increased to more than 50% in the most recent publications. A subsequent study of JASIS&T (Liu, 2003) reinforced these findings. ...
Coauthorship is increasing across all areas of scholarship. Despite this trend, dissertations as sole-authored monographs are still revered as the cornerstone of doctoral education. As students learn the norms and communicative behaviors of their field during their doctoral education, do they also learn collaborative behaviors? This study investigated this issue through triangulation of 30 interviews, 215 questionnaires, and bibliometric analyses of 97 CVs in the field of library and information science (LIS). The findings demonstrate that collaboration occurs in about half of advisee/advisor relationships and is primarily understood as research dissemination outside the dissertation. Respondents reported that the dissertation was not and should not be considered a collaborative product. The discussion also includes a commentary about grant funding and the implications for this on models of academic scholarship and research production.
Publication is a vital part of the career of any researcher. There is an increasing awareness that the presented gender of authors can impact their acceptance at competitive venues, and also influence the support they receive to participate in conferences. Similarly, geography and the associated costs of travel to conferences also impact the likelihood a potential author will submit to a conference. Recent research has examined these impacts in the context of related disciplines within computing and considered the gender profile of reviewers and authors at the iConference. This paper examines the impact of gender and geography on the representation of authors in the ASIST Annual Meeting and the JASIST journal. Through an evaluation of the first authors of accepted papers or articles, we assess the relative representation of genders, and the degree to which conference location impedes or enables authors from different regions. Our findings provide a foundation for the information science community to work towards better representation of female and international authors.
Academic journals are vehicles for the dissemination and sharing of science. They can form the basis in digital libraries for an exploration of a research field. Bibliometric journal studies have frequently taken the author as the focus of study when researching the activity of research in a field, and more seldom the affiliation (research institutions, universities, etc.). In this study, institutional contributions to ten library and information journals are explored using measures that have previously been employed in author studies. The so-called continuants, movers, newcomers and transients are used to analyse the data. The results show that there are great differences across journals when it comes to the distribution of institutions and their contributions to the journals under study. Some journals have many institutions contributing regularly. Others are characterized by many institutions contributing infrequently or rarely. The implications for exploring research fields in digital libraries are considered.
The paper presents a large-scale study (covering 26,998,764 items) of the development in the number of references over time (1996–2019) in three document types (articles; reviews; notes) from seven fields (Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; Computer Science; Mathematics; Engineering; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy). Using interval ratios instead of average numbers, the paper makes it possible to follow the development, and to locate the main causes of growth in the number of references over time. The results show significant differences between fields and document types.
The number of references in journal articles and reviews are growing in all fields (except for the reviews in Arts and Humanities that remain stable over time), but at different pace; The number of references in notes are growing in some fields (again at different pace) and are stable in others. The observed growth is primarily caused by a drop in short reference lists and a corresponding increase in a bit longer and medium size reference lists. Long and very long reference lists remain much more stable in shares over time, and does therefore not contribute much to the observed growth.
The results underline the importance of normalizing citation data, and for taking citation inflation into account when conducting citation analyses expanding different fields, document types, and longer time-periods.
This study aimed to determine librarian Universitas Gadjah Mada contribution at journal "Media Informasi". Quantitative descriptive approach were used in this study, and data were collected by documentation technique. The subject of this study are "Media Informasi" published in 1996-2012, all the articles and authors as an objects. The analysisd ata based on the percentage provided on the table. The results showed that the Media Informasi published in 1996-2012, there are 76.53% authors from UGM and 23.57% from outside the UGM. Articles topics of librarian (library human resources) earned the highest ranking (23.95%), and the topic of library institutionsin the second rank (22.39%) While the contributiono the author is still around "the author contributed one article", however there is an author who contributed almost 20 articles in that publication period.
The paper presents a Scientometric analysis of 264 articles, published in 5 volumes, 30 issues, during the year 2005-2009 of the International journal "Online Information Review''. The results indicate that in all the years under the coverage of the study, the year 2009 shows the maximum number of contributions. In 5 th issue 2008 is found to be extraordinary with 16 items-the highest number among the issue contains. Majority of the articles are contributed by Single authors. Among single authored contributions, Peter Jasco affiliated to University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA is found to be highest scorer whose contribution is to be found in every issue. India ranks 11 with a meager Percentage. Average number of citation per article is 53.36 and average number of pages per article ranges to 16.59.
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.
The present study examined changes in the genders of authors, first authors, reviewers, and editorial staff over 42 years (1974–2015) in Teaching of Psychology. Over the first 6 years of the journal’s publication, 17.67% of authors and 16.5% of first authors were women, increasing to 57.83% and 44% in the most recent 6 years. From the first 6 years to the most recent 6 years, women as reviewers increased from 9.33% to 37.17% and as editorial staff from 28% to 43.5%, and the number of authors per article increased from 1.52 per article to 2.52. Percentages of women authors, first authors, editorial staff, reviewers, and PhDs earned in psychology by women over time were highly correlated.
This study examines the contributions of U.S. academic librarians to the peer-reviewed literature of library and information science (LIS). Compared to the authors' study of thirty-two journals for 1993-1997, the present study finds that for 1998-2002, there were declines in the total number of refereed articles (almost 4%), number of refereed articles by academic librarians (almost 13%), proportion of refereed articles by academic librarians oust over 4%), proportion of academic librarian authors (almost 3%), and proportion of coauthored articles by academic librarians (almost 4%). Because different factors influence rates of authorship in a given set of journals and these rates tend to fluctuate in the short term, only further investigation can assess whether the declines are momentary or the start of a trend. Approximately 7 percent of academic librarians wrote three or more articles. The twenty most productive libraries published more than 10 percent of all refereed articles in the thirty-two journals and nearly one-third of the articles by academic librarians.
The present study aims to explore research trends in Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP). The study has been conducted with 546 contributions published in the journal selected four years for a period between January, 2009 and December 2012. In this research paper, an attempt is made to analyze and discuss the each article, year wise distribution of contributions and number of authorship, volume wise authorship, author’s productivity and the single and multi-authored papers of the journal. The findings of the results revealed that the maximum number of contributions i.e., 149 (27.29 %) were published in the year 2012 whereas the minimum number of 121 (22.17 %) was published in the year 2011. The highest number of author productivity i.e., 420 (6.56) were published in the year 2010. The degree of collaboration ranges from 0.90 to 0.92 and the average degree of collaboration is 0.915. The average length of the articles varied from a minimum of 6.31 pages in the year 2012 to a maximum of 7.08pages in the year 2011.
The sociology of sport literature is now sufficiently broad to allow a general analysis of research patterns in this field. To facilitate the identification of these vectors of expansion, sources referenced in articles published in Sociology of Sport Journal and Journal of Sport and Social Issues between 2003 and 2011 are examined in terms of sources referenced. Highly cited sources often used together in the same sources can be combined through bibliometric methods in clusters of similar influential publications, which together can be used to map the field. The resulting clusters show that a dominant pattern in these clusters is the preeminent role played by authors like Foucault, Bourdieu, and Connell. To help explain the preeminence of these authors’ work, a hypothesis is proposed, which interprets it with the help of institutional theory as an effort of a field to find legitimacy by developing research from reference academic disciplines that concerns sport or is closely linked to it (e.g., through the concept of corporeality).
This paper analyzes the temporal change in the number of references per paper and the citation age distribution, and their influence on the macroscopic Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in natural science field and its subfields. The target is limited to 4463 journals that are continuously indexed by Journal Citation Reports from 2001 to 2009, in order to eliminate the influence of journal replacement. In the whole natural science field, all-aged references per paper continuously increase, but the increase in 1- and 2-aged references per paper is slight, meaning that older-aged references mainly contribute to the increase in references per paper. The change in JIF in the natural science field was affected by both 1- and 2-aged references per paper and the paper-growth rate, stronger by the latter. All-aged references per paper increase in the every subfield, but 1- and 2-aged references per paper increase in some subfields and decrease in others. The difference in the changing rate of JIF among subfields is affected the most strongly by the changing rate of 1- and 2-aged references per paper, next by the changing rate of paper-growth rate. The proportion of inter-subfield citations dose not have a significant effect.
This paper examines library and information science (LIS) literature as produced and published by researchers in Africa in order to establish the productivity and impact of LIS research in the region. Using publication counts, and more specifically, citation analysis, the paper demonstrates that the research output and impact of LIS on the continent is relatively low when compared to other disciplines in Africa, such as social sciences. Correspondingly, the research forms a small percentage of both the national and world total LIS research output. A comparison of countries indicates that South Africa presently leads in terms of both research output and citations, and Nigeria and South Africa account for over 70% of the total number of Africa's publications and citations. Other findings are discussed, in addition to recommendations for further research, and ways in which to improve the visibility of LIS research in Africa.
Purpose
This study aims to explore the journal bibliometric characteristics of the Journal of Documentation (JOD) and the subject relationship with other disciplines by citation analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
The citation data were drawn from references of each article of JOD during 1998 and 2008. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory , Library of Congress Subject Heading, retrieved from the WorldCat and LISA database were used to identify the main class, subclass and subject of cited journals and books.
Findings
The results of this study revealed that journal articles are the most cited document, followed by books and book chapters, electronic resources, and conference proceedings, respectively. The three main classes of cited journals in JOD papers are library science, science, and social sciences. The three subclasses of non‐LIS journals that were highly cited in JOD papers are Science, “Mathematics. Computer science”, and “Industries. Land use. Labor”. The three highly cited subjects of library and information science journals encompass searching, information work, and online information retrieval. The most cited main class of books in JOD papers is library and information science, followed by social sciences, science, “Philosophy. Psychology. Religion.” The three highly cited subclasses of books in JOD papers are “Books (General). Writing. Paleography. Book industries and trade. Libraries. Bibliography,” “Philology and linguistics,” and Science, and the most cited subject of books is information storage and retrieval systems.
Originality/value
Results for the present research found that information science, as represented by JOD , is a developing discipline with an expanding literature relating to multiple subject areas.
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), and other disciplines by citation analysis. The citation data were drawn from references of each article of JASIST in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2004. The Ulrich's Periodical Directory, Library of Congress Subject Heading, retrieved from the WorldCat and LISA database were used to identify the main class, subclass and subject of cited journals and books. The results of this study revealed that the production rate of JASIST literature doubles and the average number of references cited per paper is also increased 2 to 3 times in a period of about 25 years. Beginning in 1995, there has been a significant increase in the number of electronic resources and constitutes 5% of all document types in 2004. JASIST itself is the most highly cited, and is followed by four library and information science (LIS) journals, namely Information Processing and Management , Journal of Documentation , Annual Review of Information Science and Technology and Journal of Information Science . The number of countries publishing the cited journal increases from 9 to 26 within 25 years. The three main classes of journals that were cited by JASIST most are library science (50%), science (22.7%) and social sciences (6.3%). The three subclasses of LIS encompass general bibliography, machine methods of information & retrieval and mechanized bibliographic control and library & information science. The top five most cited books of JASIST are Smart Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing, Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval , Information Retrieval , Little Science and Big Science , Information Seeking in Electronic Environments , Information Retrieval: Data Structure and Algorithms . The most cited books of JASIST are quite dispersive and science is the most cited class followed by LIS, social sciences, philosophy/psychology/religion, and the most cited subject is computerized information retrieval and mechanized bibliographic control.
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.
Bibliometric tools and especially content analysis of all 393 articles published in Journal of Music Theory (up to issue 48/1) help to investigate the development of the content of this journal. The articles were classified according to their type, the theoretical aspect, the period of repertoire discussed, and major composers or theorists they were devoted to. Among the major findings, one can trace in a precise manner the centripetal process toward focus on Schenkerian and set theories (and the more recent opposite process), the almost total separation of discussions of tonal and posttonal music, the more recent inclusion of neo-Riemannian theory, the para-academic nature of some earlier areas of interest, the correlation between an established method and the repertoire discussed, the general solid focus on hard-core theory with very few glimpses to interdisciplinary studies, and the slow and partial change that involves metatheoretical approaches. Other aspects include the growth of the journal, its importance, and its editors and contributors.
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.
Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for the information science literature represented by all papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1–6 (1966-1971). Almost one-third of the papers had no references. Half of them had four references or fewer; two-thirds had eight or fewer references. The ratio of papers without references to those with references was proposed as a measure of the scholarly status of a field. On this basis, information science was found to be less scholarly than pharmacy.
The paper presents results of a study of information science periodical literature included intoRZh-Informatika in the period 1977–1983. The distribution of papers among periodicals and their language pattern are shown. The list of 95 periodicals that rendered at least 12 papers per year is also presented. The results are compared with some data taken from theSSCI-JCR database. Connections between information science and scientometrics are investigated by the overlap of periodical literature in both fields.
This bibliometric study contributes a useful basis for compiling a profile of authorship characteristics in international library and information journals. Five journals were studied for details of the authors given in them. These details include sex, affiliation, rank, and the author's country. The study is based on such printed materials as articles, book reviews, letters, and edi torials found in five English language international Iibrarianship journals. The citations, references, and bibliographies were also studied. The geographic distribution, the age and the type of cited documents the authors used in writing articles were explored.
Since 1868 the number of mathematical publications per year (measured by counts of titles abstracted) has grown from about
800 to 13,000 at an average continuous compound rate of about 2.5 percent per year, doubling about four times a century. Deviations
from the exponential curve are clearly related to war, depression, and recovery. If the total number of publications prior
to 1868 is estimated by extrapolating from the curve of annual output, the cumulative grand total of mathematical titles grows
from 41,000 in 1867 to 419,000 by the end of 1965. Deviations from an exponential growth of 2.5 percent per year are negligible
except for two "pauses" during world wars, after which the observations continue parallel to the theoretical curve. The wellknown
hypothesis of exponential growth of the scientific literature is strongly confirmed but at a rate less than half that found
by Price and other investigators. The discrepancy appears to be due to the failure of previous studies to take into account
the titles published before the beginnings of the time series used.
The number of authors of papers in four scientific journals is positively correlated with the number of significant words in the titles of the same papers. A fifth journal showed no correlation. Implications for information retrieval are explored and tentative explanations are offered.
The Dillion Hypothesis of Titular Colonicity has been proposed as the primary correlate of scholarly character in journal publication. The Hypothesis was developed and tested in the fields of education, psychology, and literary criticism; its geographical strengths have been tested in a study of the same fields from New Zealand. In this paper, The Hypothesis is tested across disciplinary lines. Data from 21,000 titles in six journals of ecology and aquatic sciences are examined. Titular colonicity has increased dramatically over the last 15 years. Striking differences are found between theoretical and applied sub-fields (with theoretical papers being an order of magnitude more scholarly) and between the papers presented at international scientific congresses and those published in peer-reviewed journals (the latter are more scholarly). No significant differences in scholarly character between aquatic and terrestrial ecology were detectable. A comparison of findings from available studies reveals that more theoretic research in biology is significantly more scholarly than that in psychology. In general, the results of this study support the Dillon Hypothesis of Titular Colonicity.
Frequencies of the number of references per paper were obtained for the information science literature represented by all papers cited in Information Science Abstracts, volumes 1–6 (1966-1971). Almost one-third of the papers had no references. Half of them had four references or fewer; two-thirds had eight or fewer references. The ratio of papers without references to those with references was proposed as a measure of the scholarly status of a field. On this basis, information science was found to be less scholarly than pharmacy.
The great importance of titles being highly informative is almost unanimously accepted in literature, assuming that the more informative titles are, the more effectively they serve their functions. The most common measure of title informativeness has been the number of substantive words included in it, and one of the factors which might be associated with it is the number of authors. The present study attempted to test, in a large group of journals fromdifferent areas, and over six decades, the hypothesis that a paper signed by a larger number of authors will have more substantive words in its title. Large samples of original research papers were drawn from each decade year of fourteen leading journals. For each paper, the number of substantive words in the title was correlated with the number of authors. Findings indicate a difference between the scientific journals on the one hand, and the social sciences and humanities journals on the other. A moderate positive correlation was found in most scientific journals (excluding mathematics) for many periods. In the social sciences journals, and to a greater extent, in the humanities journals, a significant positive correlation was limited to only a few periods, while the rest showed a very low correlation, or even a negative correlation. The different findings for the sciences may be somehow associated with their higher rate of multiple authorship.
TheDissertation Abstracts database was searched online to study patterns in the growth of scholarship from 1880–1984. The total number of degrees granted per year as well as the number of degrees granted per year in the hard sciences, social sciences, and library science seems to be leveling off; the number in fine arts and literature has begun to decline; and the number in information science, computer science, and the health sciences continues to grow. SearchingDissertation Abstracts online offers an efficient and relatively inexpensive way to obtain quantitative data for trend analysis.