An investigation of emerging COVID-19 research trends and future implications for LIS field: A bibliometric mapping and visualization

Sheikh, Arslan; Siddique, Nadeem; Qutab, Saima; Khan, Muhammad Ajmal; Mahmood, Khalid

doi:10.1177/09610006211053043

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“…In 2020, the average number of papers per month was about 20, but in 2021, the number doubled (Table 2). Previous studies have also identified already that COVID-19 publications are on the rise over time (Kambhampati et al, 2020;Sheikh et al, 2021;Torres-Salinas et al, 2020). In addition to exploring quantitative growth, this study obtained bibliometric analysis results of various aspects on the publication of COVID-19 in the LIS journals: top country-USA, the most prolific institution-Harvard University, and the most productive outlet-Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.…”

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“…Nevertheless, the bibliometric study on COVID-19-related publications in LIS field deserves more interest. Sheikh et al (2021) reviewed 501 LIS publications on the topic of COVID-19 by searching in the Scopus . They found that a good range of bibliometric study on COVID-19 has been published on LIS journals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Library and information science (LIS) is one of the disciplines with high activity. There is a study that collected COVID-19 publications in the LIS field from Scopus to analyze productivity, main topics, and emerging trends (Sheikh et al, 2021). Furthermore, a bibliometric study of COVID-19-related publishing was conducted with two EBSCO databases, and they found the global pandemic affected all types of libraries and librarianship (Yatcilla and Young, 2021).…”

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Exploring COVID-19 research papers published on journals in the field of LIS

Shin

Lee

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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As the COVID-19 pandemic prevails, research related to COVID-19 has spread beyond medicine, health science, and biology to almost all academic fields. Library and information science is one of the most active fields that publish COVID-19-related research papers. This study examined 696 research papers related to COVID-19 whose journal being categorized as “information science & library science” by Web of Science. The result of bibliometric analysis showed that the publications were active and on the rise. Most papers were published in English and produced in the United States. According to the keyword clustering map produced by semantic network analysis, two fields, bibliometrics and health communication, were publishing research papers related to COVID-19 most actively. Moreover, the most productive journal was a library and information science journal focusing on health informatics. Additionally, a tendency was found that researchers preferred to publish on journals with high impact factors. Compared with non-COVID-19-related research papers, there was a significant decrease of “time for acceptance” of COVID-19-related papers, and the proportion of open access was relatively high. Confronting the global crisis of COVID-19, the library and information science field also made efforts and challenges to resolve the slow peer-review, delayed publishing, and high paywalls, which have been recognized as a “chronic diseases” of the academic publishing ecosystem. It is expected that these endeavors can serve as a turning point to reconsider and innovate the traditional research-publishing lifecycle.

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Exploring COVID-19 research papers published on journals in the field of LIS

Shin

Lee

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…Keywords "Covid-19", "Library Services", "Public Libraries", "Social Media", "Closed", "Library Users", "Social Networks", "Technologies" and "Information and communication" are among the most frequent keywords in this cluster. Sheikh et al, (2021) in the cluster of "Libraries and information society" investigated the role of libraries in the information society. Social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp, are the most important keywords in this cluster.…”

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Libraries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: drawing a science map of published articles

Nadi-Ravandi

Batooli

2022

LHT

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PurposeThe lockdown of libraries has led to changes in the delivery of services. Reviewing many studies in this regard appears to be of great importance. Thus, this study aims to analyze the articles related to libraries and COVID-19 using the co-occurrence analysis.Design/methodology/approachThe current study is applied in terms of purpose and scientometrics in terms of type, which has been conducted using a retrospective bibliometric analysis method and drawing a science map. The relevant keywords were searched in the Scopus and 225 articles were reviewed in terms of author, year of publication, journal, organization and subject. Then, the VOSviewer software was used to analyze and illustrate the keywords and draw the scientific map of the articles.FindingsThe results showed that 225 articles by 496 authors from 66 countries and 379 organizations were published in the subject area of libraries and COVID-19. These articles have received 620 citations. The co-occurrence analysis of words showed that these scientific productions are classified into four clusters: “The role of libraries and librarians”, “The use of media, social network and communication technologies in order provide library services”, “Online Library Services” and “Infodemic and misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic”.Originality/valueIt is the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic that a scientific map has been drawn up of studies that have examined the role of libraries in this pandemic. The results of the present study may help libraries to access what they need to consider in any crisis.

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“…The basic result concluded in this research that Information Management Department at the University of the Punjab is the significant contribution in LIS literature. Further bibliometric studies have been conducted by various authors for statistical information such as (N. Farooq, Rehman, Ashiq, Siddique, & Ahmad, 2021;Sheikh, Siddique, Qutab, Khan, & Mahmood, 2021;Shoaib, Ahmad, Ali, & Abdullah, 2021;Siddique, Rehman, Ahmad, Abbas, & Khan, 2021;Singh, Mittal, & Ahmad, 2007;Tijjani, Ashiq, Siddique, Khan, & Rasul, 2020) It is needed to additionally comprehend to recount the narrative of a major dataset indeed, what the library terms which have been analyzed. Consequently, an understanding regarding the bibliometric research could be valuable.…”

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confidence: 99%

Globally Published Literature on Library and Information Science Professionals: A Bibliometric Review ( 1970-2021) Authors

Aslam

Naveed²,

Ali³

et al. 2022

JIMP

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The study targets examining the exploration yield on the key terms of librarianship within 52 years (1970-2021). The investigation cover essentially the quantity of articles, language of articles, top research oriented organizations and countries, topmost publication source, highly productive authors, highly interested research area, commonly used keyword and so forth. A complete bibliometric study was directed utilizing the Science Citation Index data set, Web of Science (Core Collection). This research fills in as an asset for future research activities by revealing insight into librarianship. In particular, the outcomes uncover that the mostly chosen publication category is article and the research referred to articles are from United States and the top productive organization is also from USA. The preferred language is English for publications and the most favored research area is the “Information Science Library Science” during this time span. This bibliometric research is significant for all those researchers who relates to librarianship and who need to see the publication trends in this profession.

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An investigation of emerging COVID-19 research trends and future implications for LIS field: A bibliometric mapping and visualization

Cited by 9 publications

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Exploring COVID-19 research papers published on journals in the field of LIS

Exploring COVID-19 research papers published on journals in the field of LIS

Libraries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: drawing a science map of published articles

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