scholarly journals Exploring Topics in Bibliometric Research Through Citation Networks and Semantic Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Mejia ◽  
Mengjia Wu ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yuya Kajikawa
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Great Increase ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Citation Networks ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Bibliometric Research

This article surveys topic distributions of the academic literature that employs the terms bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics. This exploration allows informing on the adoption of those terms and publication patterns of the authors acknowledging their work to be part of bibliometric research. We retrieved 20,268 articles related to bibliometrics and applied methodologies that exploit various features of the dataset to surface different topic representations. Across them, we observe major trends including discussions on theory, regional publication patterns, databases, and tools. There is a great increase in the application of bibliometrics as science mapping and decision-making tools in management, public health, sustainability, and medical fields. It is also observed that the term bibliometrics has reached an overall generality, while the terms scientometrics and informetrics may be more accurate in representing the core of bibliometric research as understood by the information and library science field. This article contributes by providing multiple snapshots of a field that has grown too quickly beyond the confines of library science.

scholarly journals Conceptualising 'knowledge management' in the context of library and information science using the core/periphery model

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.B. Onyancha ◽  
D.N. Ocholla
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Management Information ◽  
The Core ◽  
Information Resources Management ◽  
Science Management ◽  
Science Information

This study took cognisance of the fact that the term 'knowledge management' lacks a universally accepted definition, and consequently sought to describe the term using the most common co-occurring terms in knowledge management (KM) literature as indexed in the Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database. Using a variety of approaches and analytic techniques (e.g. core/periphery analysis and co-occurrence of words as subject terms), data were analysed using the core/periphery model and social networks through UCINET for Windows, TI, textSTAT and Bibexcel computer-aided software. The study identified the following as the compound terms with which KM co-occurs most frequently: information resources management, information science, information technology, information services, information retrieval, library science, management information systems and libraries. The core single subject terms with which KM can be defined include resources, technology, libraries, systems, services, retrieval, storage, data and computers. The article concludes by offering the library and information science (LIS) professionals' general perception of KM based on their use of terms, through which KM can be defined within the context of LIS.

Perceptions of online degrees in library science across the Arab world

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 317-330
Author(s):  
Charla Chebl ◽  
Maroun El Rayess
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Degrees ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
Online Library

Purpose This research paper aims to present a specific outline of the library decision makers’ perceptions and the hiring patterns and acceptability of online library science degree holders in academic libraries across the Arab world. It also investigates whether such degrees compare favorably with traditional degrees or not. Design/methodology/approach This study data were collected using an online questionnaire, which was sent out to 74 library managers in academic libraries across the Arab world. The libraries were selected from the QS stars Worldwide University Ranking for the Arab Region 2015, which ranks the Arab world’s top 100 universities. Findings The findings reveal no significant relationship between the hiring decision of library managers and the degree type, whether earned through traditional education or online. The analysis notes different factors influencing the hiring practices and acceptability of online library science degree holders, the most influential factors being candidate skills, accreditation of programs and candidate experiences. Originality/value To date, no study has investigated whether employers in academic libraries across the Arab world perceive online library science graduate degrees “less than” or “equal to” those obtained through traditional education. This study will contribute to the literature on the acceptance of online degrees in general and in the library science field in particular. The study is a significant contribution to knowledge for students, job seekers and employers alike.

scholarly journals A Semi-Automatic Methodology for Making FMEA Surveys

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Christian Spreafico ◽  
Davide Russo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Papers

This paper proposes a semi-automatic methodology to assist the user in creating surveys about FMEA and Risk Analysis, based on a customized use of the tools for semantic analysis and in particular a home-developed syntactic parser called Kompat Cognitive. The core of this work has been the analysis of the specific FMEA-related jargon and its common modalities of description within scientific papers and patents in order to systematize the linguistic analysis of the reference documents within the proposed step-divided procedure. The main goals of the methodology are to assist not skilled in the art users about FMEA during the analysis of generic and specific features, by considering large moles of contributions in restricted amounts of time. The methodology has then been tested on the same pool of 286 documents, divided between 177 and 109 patents, manually analyzed in our previous survey, in order to replicate part of its classifications through the proposed new modality. In this way we evaluated the abilities of the methodology both to automatically suggesting the main features of interest and to classify the documents according to them.

scholarly journals Understanding Social Justice Through Practitioners’ Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-70
Author(s):  
J Elizabeth Mills ◽  
Jacqueline Kociubuk ◽  
Kathleen Campana
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Outreach Programs

Researchers have recognized that aspects of social justice are present in library efforts by acknowledging the importance of using library programs and services to promote social justice and the significance of social justice for the LIS field. However, while public libraries have indicated a strong interest in reaching underserved communities, they may not yet possess a thorough understanding of various aspects of social justice, especially the concepts of equity, engagement, and empowerment, despite the increasing focus on social justice’s centrality in the library science field. This work-in-progress study presents a grounded theory analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews that were conducted as part of an existing study with library staff and their community partners (staff who work at organizations with which the libraries partner to offer outreach programs in the community). The analysis explores and unpacks practitioners’ language to demonstrate a complex, multifaceted portrait of how these practitioners describe equity, engagement, and empowerment. These practitioners express both broad and individual approaches to this social justice work in an effort to offer equal treatment to the whole community while also recognizing individual barriers. Moreover, they underscore the importance of a role for the community to play in achieving their own goals and strengthening connections between community members and institutions. This analysis yields a critical semantic foundation of social justice concepts, situated in practitioner understanding and prior research in social justice.

scholarly journals To the question of the name of a text field

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Na Van
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
The Core ◽  
Text Field ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
The Subject

This article is dedicated to the problem of the choice of name for a text semantic field formed within a literary text. The goal consists in determination of factors that hinder or preclude the naming of a text field. The subject of this research is the text semantic field observed particularly in the novels of F. M. Dostoevsky “The Idiot” and I. S. Turgenev “Home of the Gentry”. The author establishes that the text semantic field is closely connected to the contexts where elements of the field can be equitable, which complicates determination of the core and periphery of a text field, namely its name. In the course of research, the author applied the methods of analysis of scientific literature, interpretation of literary text as an aesthetic system, and method of semantic analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the author is first to discuss the question of difficulties of naming a text field using the materials of the novels “The Idiot”  by F. M. Dostoevsky and “Home of the Gentry” by I. S. Turgenev. The conclusion is made that in majority of cases a text field can be named by the most frequent element therein. At the same time, the name “Idiot” in F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel does not fully reveal the content of a text field. In some instances it is impossible to name a text field (as in the novel “Home of the Gentry” by I. S. Turgenev), since elements of the field deal with the equitable mutual implication.

scholarly journals AHL DALAM AL-QUR'AN PERSPEKTIF SEMANTIK 'AISYAH BINTU SYATHI'

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rosyid ◽  
Muhammad Anwar Idris
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The Core ◽  
Frequent Word ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

 Arabic usually use the word al-usrahor al-‘ailahto refer to family. However, the Qur’an also employs some different words to describe family, namely ahl, ‘asyirah, rahtu,alu, qurbaand ruknu. This article aims to examine the word ahl. This is based on the fact that ahlis the most frequent word mentioned theQur’an to refer to the family. Using the semantic analysis proposed by ‘Aisya bint al-Syati’, this article shows that the original meaning of the word ahlis “entitled”and “appropriate”.Itscontextual meaning, however,might refer to the people of the book (ahl al-Kitab), residents (al-sakin), followers (qawm al-Nabī), people who are entitled or reserve the right(al-mustahaq), the core family (usrah), and clans or extended family (‘ailah). This article contributes to the ideal of building a family. By referring to the meaning of ahl,the family should be correctly and appropriately built so as to achieve happiness.

scholarly journals The Biswa Ijtema

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Björkman
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Newspapers

The Tablighi Jama‘at has not, until recently, been the focus of much research, despite its almost 80-year history.This article examines material about the Tablighi Jama‘at in Bangladesh and the Biswa Ijtema in particular. The material consists of academic literature and articles in local newspapers. Tablighi Jama‘at was founded by Mawlana Ilyas in Mewat as a reaction against the decline of Muslim political power in India and the increasing British influence on the subcontinent.The Biswa Ijtema is the annual congregation of the Tablighi Jama‘at, held in the district of Tongi, just outside Dhaka in Bangladesh. The term Biswa Ijtema (or Viswa/Bishwa Ijtema) translates as ‘world congregation’. The Biswa Ijtema works very much as the core of the Tablighi missionary work. Devotees come here to strengthen their faith, and when they leave, go out to spread the message.

Discovering Data and Information Quality Research Insights Gained through Latent Semantic Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Blake ◽  
Ganesan Shankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Data Querying ◽  
Do So

In the recent decade, the field of data and information quality (DQ) has grown into a research area that spans multiple disciplines. The motivation here is to help understand the core topics and themes that constitute this area and to determine how those topics and themes from DQ relate to business intelligence (BI). To do so, the authors present the results of a study which mines the abstracts of articles in DQ published over the last decade. Using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) six core themes of DQ research are identified, as well as twelve dominant topics comprising them. Five of these topics--decision support, database design and data mining, data querying and cleansing, data integration, and DQ for analytics--all relate to BI, emphasizing the importance of research that combines DQ with BI. The DQ topics from these results are profiled with BI, and used to suggest several opportunities for researchers.

scholarly journals What is organizational inequality? Why is it increasing as macroeconomic inequality increases?

2020 ◽  
pp. 030981682095979
Author(s):  
Andrea Bernardi ◽  
Pasquale Tridico
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Relationship

Inequality has been increasing for decades in both rich and developing countries and the academic literature addressing it struggles to provide explanations, let alone solutions. This article is concerned with a relatively underexplored area, the relationship between macro-level inequality and organizational inequality. The core focus of the article is the recognition that the two phenomena are closely bound up one with the other. This is made possible by adopting Rousseau’s notion of inequality as hierarchy and willingness to accept subordination to authority and disparity of treatment. In doing so, we highlight similarities and dissimilarities between Rousseau and Marx. Inequality remains an issue of hierarchy at both the macro and organizational levels. As it was for Rousseau, so it is today but it is much more layered than in Rousseau’s day: inequality in society is the accepted degree of hierarchy among its members, inequality in the economy and at work is the extent to which, accepted or not, there is an imbalance of power, financial resources, remuneration of work and access to opportunities and services. The increase in inequality is due to a radical change in the socio-economic model of advanced economies. This change involves a shift towards financialization, a pressure on labour through flexibility, the decline of trade unions’ power and the retrenchment of public social spending.

A future for the theory of multiple modernities: Insights from the new modernization theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsje Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Analysis Problem ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Historical Circumstance ◽  
Selective Incorporation ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Empirical Methodology

Resume In recent years, the concept of multiple modernities has emerged to challenge the perceived Eurocentrism and unilinearity of traditional theories of convergence, and has led to renewed efforts to appreciate differing trajectories of contemporary political and social development. Its exponents’ key argument – that forms of modernity are so varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstance that the term itself must be spoken of in the plural – is particularly pertinent in an era where a preoccupation with modernity in societies around the world has not lately been adequately reflected in the academic literature. This article reviews the main principles of this approach, synthesizes its evolution and analyzes its strengths and shortcomings. The article finds that the notion of multiple modernities has been useful in widening the scope of study, and that it focuses on important questions that its rivals have not yet addressed. However, three challenges continue to pose problems for the theory: it has been reluctant to engage with the complexities and evolution of the modernization theory it critiques; it has not consistently delineated and defined its major unit of analysis; and it has not yet identified the ‘core’ of modernity itself in a way that allows for ideas, movements or societies to fall outside its remit. Although theorists have begun to address the unit of analysis problem by incorporating political dynamics into the study of civilizational difference, the selective incorporation of the empirical methodology and findings of Inglehart & Welzel’s value-based, path-dependent approach offers another means by which multiple modernities theory can overcome the challenges identified.

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