Library and Information Science research areas: A content analysis of articles from the top 10 journals 2007–8

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noa Aharony
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Research Areas

scholarly journals Thematic Categorization and Analysis of Peer Reviewed Articles in the LISA Database, 2004-2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Perryman
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
American Society ◽  
Set Up

A Review of: Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio, Lourdes Castello-Cogolles, Carolina Navarro-Molina, et al. “Library and Information Science Research Areas: Analysis of Journal Articles in LISA.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59.1 (2008): 150-4. Objective – To provide an updated categorization of Library and Information Science (LIS) publications and to identify trends in LIS research. Design – Bibliometric study. Setting – The Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database via the CSA Illumina interface. Subjects – 11,273 item records published from 2004-2005 and indexed in LISA. Methods – First, a search was set up to retrieve all records from 2004-2005, limited to peer review items (called “arbitrated works” by the authors (150)) and excluding book reviews. Second, thematic descriptor terms used for the records were identified. Frequency counts for descriptor term occurrence were compiled using Microsoft Access and Pajek software programs. From the results of this search, the top terms were analyzed using the Kamada-Kawai algorithm in order to eliminate descriptor term co-occurrence frequencies under 30. A cluster analysis was used to depict thematic foci for the remaining records, providing a co-word network that visually identified topic areas of most frequent publication. Conclusions were drawn from these findings, and recommendations for further research were provided. Main Results – The authors identified 18 “thematic research core fields” (152) clustered around three large categories, “World Wide Web”, “Education”, and “Libraries”, plus 12 additional peripheral categories, and provided a schematic of field interrelationships. Conclusion – Domains of greatest focus for research “continue to be of practical and applied nature,” (153) but include increased emphasis on the World Wide Web and communications technologies, as well as on user studies. A table of the most frequently occurring areas of research along with their top three descriptor terms is provided (Table 1, 152) (e.g., “World Wide Web” as the top area of research, with “online information retrieval” (268 occurrences), “searching” (132 occurrences), and “web sites” (115 occurrences)).

scholarly journals Mapping the Canadian library and information science research landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora-Lynn Munroe-Lynds ◽  
Marc-André Simard ◽  
Vinson Li ◽  
Emily McClean ◽  
Philippe Mongeon
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Shed Light

This work-in-progress paper aims to map the scholarship produced by the eight Canadian Library and Information Science (LIS) schools. After using the citation network to divide publications into several research areas, we analyze how the research output of different LIS schools is distributed across these areas, in an attempt to shed light on the schools’ specificities and commonalities and how each school contributes to the global picture of Canadian LIS research.

scholarly journals Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregorio González-Alcaide ◽  
Lourdes Castelló-Cogollos ◽  
Carolina Navarro-Molina ◽  
Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent ◽  
Juan Carlos Valderrama-Zurián
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Areas

Black articles matter: exploring relative deprivation and implicit bias in library and information science research publications of Africa and other continents

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tochukwu Victor Nwankwo ◽  
Rosemary Anwuli Odiachi ◽  
Ifeanyi A. Anene
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Implicit Bias ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Publications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore relative deprivation and implicit bias in library and information science research publications of Africa and other continents.Design/methodology/approachResearch design used for this study is descriptive survey research. Specifically, the study will adopt both web content analysis and survey to collect data. The content analysis covers the whole continents of the world: Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Northern America, Pacific Region and Western Europe; using the Webometrics World Ranking of Universities and the SCImago/Scopus Journal Ranking. Library and information science was used as the search and control parameter. The scopes covered by the research are: 1. Ascertaining the visible publishing and assessment standards of top library and information science (LIS) journals, which was evaluated using Kleinert and Wager (2010)'s study.FindingsIt was found out among others that editors making fair and unbiased decisions as policy is seen in 33% of the journals, which is very poor. All the structural disparities, such as presence ranking, impact ranking, excellence ranking, etc. were favouring Europe and the Americas mainly. As much as rejection is getting to these respondents, research generally is also suffering by missing out on some untapped knowledge and ideas from these deprived populations. Many authors are losing faith in their capabilities and are now afraid of venturing into tedious research exercises because it will most likely be rejected either ways.Research limitations/implicationsIt is an established fact that social media gains research impact and attracts international collaborations. In support, studies such as Hassan et al. (2019) reported the fact that tweet mentions of articles with positive sentiment to more visibility and citations. They claim that cited articles in either positive or neutral tweets have a more significant impact than those not cited at all or cited in negative tweets. In addition, Hassan et al. (2020) equally highlighted tweet coupling as a social media methodology useful for clustering scientific publications. Despite the fact that social media have these influences on research and publications visibility and presence, the context of the present research did cover this scope of study. The study focused mainly on sources from Scopus as well as results from responses. Further studies can be carried out on this area.Originality/valueResearch studies linking “Black Articles Matter” to relative deprivation and implicit bias in research publications, especially in library and information discipline, are very rare. Also, the scope of approach of the study is quite different and interesting.

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