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This article sought to investigate the evolution of library and information science by tracking the author-supplied keywords in the research articles published in the domain between 1971 and 2015. Data was extracted from Thomson Reuters’ citation mainstream indexes and analysed using the VosViewer computer-aided software to obtain author-supplied keyword frequencies in each decade since 1971. We identified the most salient and common research themes in LIS and how the themes have evolved, by delving into the author-supplied keywords to proxy research themes in the field domain. Results indicate that the field of LIS has evolved in terms of its subject focus from information systems design and management in the 1970s to scientific communication, information storage and retrieval, information access, information and knowledge management, and user education in 2015. The application of ICTs in LIS practice and education, too, has emerged as a prominent topic in the field. These issues have the potential of shaping or have shaped the LIS curriculum in some LIS schools in the continent.
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Publishing Research Quarterly (2018) 34:456–470
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-018-9590-3
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Forty‑Five Years ofLIS Research Evolution, 1971–2015:
AnInformetrics Study oftheAuthor‑Supplied Keywords
OmwoyoBosireOnyancha1
Published online: 21 June 2018
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract
This article sought to investigate the evolution of library and information science
by tracking the author-supplied keywords in the research articles published in the
domain between 1971 and 2015. Data was extracted from Thomson Reuters’ citation
mainstream indexes and analysed using the VosViewer computer-aided software to
obtain author-supplied keyword frequencies in each decade since 1971. We identi-
fied the most salient and common research themes in LIS and how the themes have
evolved, by delving into the author-supplied keywords to proxy research themes in
the field domain. Results indicate that the field of LIS has evolved in terms of its
subject focus from information systems design and management in the 1970s to sci-
entific communication, information storage and retrieval, information access, infor-
mation and knowledge management, and user education in 2015. The application
of ICTs in LIS practice and education, too, has emerged as a prominent topic in the
field. These issues have the potential of shaping or have shaped the LIS curriculum
in some LIS schools in the continent.
Keywords Library and information science· Research· Social network analysis·
Co-occurrence analysis· Informetrics, keywords
Introduction
Ke etal. [19] have observed that there is an increase in interest to understand the
dynamics and characteristics of scientific production and the evolution of science.
To that end, Chang etal. [5] opine that exploring research trends in a discipline
facilitates a deeper understanding of the development of the discipline. On their part,
Goldfinch and Yamamoto [13, 8] offer the basis of such an exploration by stating
that “disciplines themselves are unstable and change over time”. Similar sentiments
* Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha
onyanob@unisa.ac.za
1 Department ofInformation Science, University ofSouth Africa, Unisa, PO Box392,
Pretoria0003, SouthAfrica
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... • Subject specialization index, mostly used to assess the concentration of research in given topics, fields, or disciplines (e.g. UNESCO, 2015;Davis, 1983;Pouris and Pouris, 2009;Onyancha, 2018). ...
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... For instance, a study conducted by Onyancha (2018) noted that ICTs has emerged as one of the leading topics of research in the library and information science field. Onyancha's (2018) study revealed that research on different ICTs has continued to dominate LIS research. Knowledge management, too, has emerged as a hot research topic having emerged from nowhere so to speak to rank the 2nd in the top 20 author supplied keywords in 2011-2015 (see Onyancha 2018). ...
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