A Statistical Profile of "College &amp; Research Libraries"

Metz, Paul

doi:10.5860/crl_50_01_42

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“…A study of authors' citing practices in College & Research Libraries over a long time-span showed a very similar pattern of increase in references per paper (Metz, 1989). It is noteworthy that there were considerably more citations per paper, on average, in JASIS than in College & Research Libraries during the years of overlap of the Metz study and the present study.…”

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“…A trend toward greater participation by female authors has been observed in the literatures of various disciplines, including the literature of librarianship (e.g., Olsgaard & Olsgaard, 1980;Metz, 1989;Buttlar, 1991). The field of information science, as represented by JASIS, also shows this trend toward increased female participation (Fig.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Two-author papers increased in percentage in each decade surveyed. Metz (1989) reported very similar growth in coauthorship in the journal College & Research Libraries for the period 1939 -1988; the percentages of coauthored papers were consistently lower than for JASIS during the period that both journals were being published.…”

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confidence: 81%

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Aspects ofJASIS authorship through five decades

Lipetz

1999

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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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.

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Section: References In Jasis Paperssupporting

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Section: Author Gendermentioning

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Aspects ofJASIS authorship through five decades

Lipetz

1999

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“…For example, in a statistical profile of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) on its fiftieth anniversary, Paul Metz described C&RL as "one of the most widely respected journals in librarianship,'' noting that ARL directors and library school deans ranked it first and third, respectively, in terms of "its value for tenure and promotion decisions at their institutions. '' 4 A ''self-fulfilling prophecy" occurs because, once publicized, these subjective rankings influence assessment of the best outlet for a journal article and the subsequent weight assigned to it in personnel deci- • 5 s1ons. This author recalls a comment made at a discussion group on negotiating the tenure process held at an Association for Library and Information Science Education conference: "If it's not published in one of the top ten or twelve journals listed in the Kohl and Davis study, it doesn't count as much."…”

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Ranking of Journals in Library and Information Science: A Comparison of Perceptual and Citation-Based Measures

Kim¹

1991

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“…In his statistical profile of C&RL, Paul Metz found that articles appearing in recent issues of the journal used quantitative methodologies more frequently, especially for the display of information, when compared to articles appearing in previous decades. 13 Suhasini Kumar examined 312 articles from ten LIS journals, including JAL. 14 Specifically, Kumar studied subject mat-…”

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The Research Literature of Academic Librarianship: A Comparison of <i>College & Research Libraries</i> and <i>Journal of Academic Librarianship</i>

Crawford

1999

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College & Research Libraries (C&RL) and the Journal of Academic Librarianship (JAL) are the two primary journals in the field of academic librarianship. This study examines articles appearing in C&RL and JAL so as to evaluate these journals on the basis of type of articles pub lished, structure of the articles, types of statistics used, and data collec tion methods used.The results indicate that C&RL publishes significantly more research articles than does JAL. Other results show that surveys are the primary form of data collection and that descriptive statistics are used much more frequently than inferential statistics. The percentage of research articles included in these journals has increased since earlier studies.henever the literature of academic librarianship is discussed, one often hears that the field lacks a good research base. Over time, many authors have called for more research to fill this gap.

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A Statistical Profile of "College & Research Libraries"

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Aspects ofJASIS authorship through five decades

Aspects ofJASIS authorship through five decades

Ranking of Journals in Library and Information Science: A Comparison of Perceptual and Citation-Based Measures

The Research Literature of Academic Librarianship: A Comparison of <i>College & Research Libraries</i> and <i>Journal of Academic Librarianship</i>

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