Authorship as a Measure of the Productivity of Schools of Library and Information Science

Disciplinary, national, and departmental contributions to the literature of library and information science, 2007–2012

“…The top five departments account for 27% of the total, and the top 10 departments account for 46%. As might be expected from previous research (Boyce & Hendren, ; Pettigrew & Nicholls, ), all but two of the top 30 U.S. LIS departments are at institutions with high or very high research activity as defined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (). At the other end of the spectrum, 27 of the 59 ALA‐accredited departments contributed fewer than 10 articles over the 6‐year period.…”

“…Of the post‐1995 studies shown in Table , nearly all use whole counting. Boyce and Hendren () present two measures, one based on whole counting and one that assigns fractional credit to authors at the same institution.…”

Publications of Australian LIS Academics in Database

“…Most notable is a series of papers investigating LIS publications in North America for almost four decades between 1966 and 2004 using the Social Sciences Citation Index (Hayes, 1983;Budd & Seavey, 1996;Budd, 2000;Adkins & Budd, 2006. Other North American LIS studies use the Library Literature database (Wallace, 1990;Boyce & Hendren, 1996).…”

Ranking the research productivity of library and information science faculty and schools: An evaluation of data sources and research methods

“…In some cases, publication length and the reputation or rank of the publisher or journal are taken into consideration as well. The rationale for using lists of publications for ranking library and information science (LIS) schools and faculty is based on claims that scholarly publications produce new knowledge, confer prestige on the university and to the individual researcher, attract better faculty and students, produce better teaching as new knowledge is integrated into the preparation of students, develop the faculty member intellectually and professionally, and attract research funds (Blake & Tjoumas, 1990; Boyce & Hendren, 1996; Garland, 1991; Wilson, 1979).…”