Asian and Pacific Region Authorship Characteristics in Leading Library and Information Science Journals

Park, Taemin Kim

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2008.08.004

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“…In the perspective of the "top 10 highly cited" authors, the majority belong to North American or European countries. The authorship pattern and research collaboration "analysis of the top 10" productive countries suggested that the majority of the articles had multiple authors which is in line with the previous studies 19,[46][47][48] . However, International Collaboration (IC) was seen to be minimal among these countries.…”

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Continuous Professional Development Research in the Library and Information Science

Rehman

Wani

Ganaie

2023

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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This study aims to examine the availability of literature on “Continuous Professional Development” (CPD) related to the Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals from 2002 to 2021 in the Web of Science (WoS) database. A comprehensive search strategy coupled with filters was devised to extract relevant data from the database. It led to the retrieval of 345 documents. This was followed by “abstract screening analysis” to achieve the highest level of desired “content relevancy”. Finally, 268 documents were selected and saved in the marked list for further analysis. Data analysis and network visualisation were performed using the R bibliometric package and VOSviewer respectively. The study analysed various parameters such as: publication and citation trends; prolific authors, sources and countries; highly cited articles and nature of authorship and collaboration pattern; the most frequently used keywords; and the citation analysis pattern of authors, articles and sources.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Continuous Professional Development Research in the Library and Information Science

Rehman

Wani

Ganaie

2023

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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“…Directly relevant to this study are Park (2008), which studied Asian and Pacific Region authorship of leading library and information science journal articles, Jing et al (2009), which intended to study China's development in library and information science during the era of reform and opening to outside world, and Mukherjee (2010), which evaluated research publications in library and information science journals. All three studies used ISI SCCI database in different degree.…”

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“…All three studies used ISI SCCI database in different degree. While Park (2008) and Mukherjee (2010) relied on ISI SCCI for collecting and analyzing data for the periods of 1967 to 2005and 2001-2007respectively, Jing et al (2009 actually used it only as a reference and analyzed nine library and information science journals included in both SCCI and SCI. Yearly growth and change were not presented, international comparison was not conducted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the findings of Jing et al (2009) were not comprehensive at all and far from presenting the whole picture of China's research performance in library and information science during the era. Both Park (2008) and Mukherjee (2010) found that China as a leading country with largest number of research publications in library and information science. However, Jing et al (2009) stated that the number of China's research publications was very limited without offering qualified justification.…”

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The development of China's scholarly publications in library and information science, 1979‐2009

Wang

2011

Library Management

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Purpose -No scholarly publications have systematically studied the evolution and growth of China's scientific papers of library and information science published in the English language and covered by ISI during the reform era starting in 1979. It is intended that this paper should fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach -This study surveys ISI library and information science papers authored by researchers of China during 1979-2009 and quantitatively presents the development of scholarly publications authored by researchers from China. A total of 30 years of data of ISI literature are collected and analyzed, and the paper conducts an international comparison of research productivity among leading Asian countries. Findings -The paper establishes the patterns and trends of papers authored by Chinese authors, particularly the top subject areas and top journals in which Chinese papers are highly represented. Besides, the paper makes an international comparison between China and other major Asian countries such as India, Japan, and Korea in terms of library and information science research outputs represented in ISI literature. China has become the leader in terms of research productivity of library and information science. Research limitations/implications -This study focuses on English-language journal articles only. Only journals meeting ISI inclusion criteria are reviewed and analyzed. The possible accidentally inaccurate entries in the original ISI data have not been checked for accuracy and consistency for each journal article record. Originality/value -The paper provided an example of using the powerful ISI databases of citation indexes, particularly ISI SCCI, in a cautious and critical way. It empirically presents the overall upward development of China's scholarship of library and information science. Either the Greater China area as a whole or Mainland China alone has become the leader in the scholarly publications in library and information ahead of India, Korea and Japan.

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“…Some bibliometric studies have focused more on the publishing trends of certain geographical regions. Park (2008) has studied the Asian and Pacific authorship patterns of 20 LIS journals. Findings showed that Australia, China and South Korea, respectively, had the highest research contribution in the information science domain.…”

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A bibliometric study on library and information science and information systems literature during 2010–2019

Wijewickrema

2022

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PurposeStudying the nature of research progress in interrelated research domains is important for evaluating the research productivity and to understand the current trends of the area of research. This study aims to examine a research domain that combines library and information science with information systems (IS).Design/methodology/approachQuartile 1 journals that cover both subject domains in SCImago were selected for the study. Bibliographic records of the publications during 2010 and 2019 were retrieved from the Scopus database. VOSviewer data visualization tool was used to perform citation, coauthorship, bibliographic coupling, cocitation and co-occurrence analysis. In addition, descriptive and inferential statistics were exploited.FindingsThe absence of a consistent association between the number of documents authored and the number of citations received by a researcher was an important finding of the study. The strong association of authors regardless of the different topics they researched and the trend of increasing interest on collaborative research were also highlighted. Moreover, the authors who received the highest number of citations were not always the first authors of the documents which received the most citations. The documents published in information management, information theory and IS journals attained the most citations. The journals, institutions and countries with the highest number of documents and citations were also revealed by the research. Electrical engineering departments showed a higher research productivity, while they were utilized more compared to that of other departments. IS and management, information theory, communication, information retrieval, geographic-based IS and bioinformatics were the six major research areas of the considered domain.Originality/valueThis is the first study related to examining the research progress in a combined subject domain using multiple aspects including, individual performance, institutional progress, geographical contribution and so on. Identifying the major research areas in the combined subject domain can also be considered a novel contribution to the field.

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Asian and Pacific Region Authorship Characteristics in Leading Library and Information Science Journals

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Continuous Professional Development Research in the Library and Information Science

Continuous Professional Development Research in the Library and Information Science

The development of China's scholarly publications in library and information science, 1979‐2009

A bibliometric study on library and information science and information systems literature during 2010–2019

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