Bibliometric mapping of top papers in Library and Information Science based on the Essential Science Indicators Database

Abstract

This study analyzed top papers published in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) published between 2009 and 2019 and included in the Web of Science (WoS) subject category “Information Science & Library Science”. Data of the 501 top papers were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database comprising 499 highly cited papers and 16 hot papers in the field. The distributions of document type, language of publication, scientific output, and publication of journals are reported in this paper. The co-authorship network visualization of authors, organizations and countries, co-occurrence network visualization of all keywords are visualized using VOSviewer software. The 501 papers, all written in English language, were from 1,579 authors employed at 680 organizations based in 59 countries/territories. The papers were published in 40 journals in the field. The top 5 core journals ranked based on the impact factor (IF) were MIS Quarterly, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and Information Management. The top 5 organizations were University of Maryland (USA), University of Wolverhampton (UK), Vanderbilt University (USA), Indiana University (USA), and Wuhan University (China). Authors from the following countries contributed the most - USA, People’s Republic of China, England, Canada and Netherlands. Based on network map using VOSviewer, there were micro, meso and macro level collaborations based on common interests in a specific topics. Analysis of all keywords showed that the research were distributed into 6 clusters. This study concludes that one important characteristic of top papers is the journal reputation, therefore authors can choose their ideal journal with a high JIF and quartile to publish papers in the English language related to this research field.

Comparative evaluation of top papers outputs of OIC member countries in the Essential Science Indicators database

“…The TPs produced by 41 out of 57 OIC member countries during 10 year period (2010 to 2019), obtained using scientometrics tools and techniques, comprise 7,369 HCPs and 249 HPs, all of which were articles document type and published in the English language. This study is similar to the studies conducted by Zhang et al (2018), Mofrad, Shekofteh, Kazerani (2019, Yuan and Sun (2019), and Sun and Yuan (2020), who evaluated TPs scientometrically.…”

“…The analysis of keywords showed that the research waas separated into nine clusters. Sun and Yuan (2020) studied TPs in Library and Information Science (LIS) using the ESI database from 2009 to 2019. They evaluated the LIS 501 TPs (499 HCPs and 16 HPs) in ESI.…”

“…The country affiliation provides information about the country in which the author who has made an independent contribution to the TPs worked, within a certain organization, at the time they were publishing their HCPs and HPs. The country the author affiliated to could be considered the important contributors for the evaluation of research output (Sun and Yuan 2020). Table 9 lists the top five countries ranked by the number of TPs, and their average citations and citations, with USA and People's Republic of China being the largest contributor for OIC member countries' HCPs and HPs respectively.…”

Global research trends in augmented reality: scientometric mapping based on Scopus database

“…The co-authorship network of authors is the most common kind of co-authorship network (Sun and Yuan, 2020). The network visualization of authorship in the discipline of "Augmented Reality" is depicted in Figure 5.…”

Bibliometric Analysis of Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Research Based on Web of Science Agronomy Category

“…For cotton literature, bibliometric analyses of publications include research into cotton leaf curl disease (Khan et al, 2020), mapping and visualization of research topics and publishing patterns of cotton fiber (Stopar et al, 2021), soil and water conservation in the Loess Tableland-Gully Region of China (Wang et al, 2019), and advances in water-use efficiency in agriculture and sustainable water use in agriculture (Velasco-Muñoz et al, 2018a, b). Other applications of bibliometric analysis include those by Sun and Yuan that analyzed rice with fertilizer using Citespace (Sun and Yuan, 2019), identification of the top papers in world rice research (Sun and Yuan, 2020a), identification of the top papers in Library and Information Science based on essential science indicators (Sun and Yuan, 2020b), in the field of water resources (Sun and Yuan, 2020c), green and sustainable science and technology (Yuan and Sun, 2019), in agronomy (Sun and Yuan, 2021), cotton research from Plant Sciences category based on Web of Science (Yuan and Sun, 2021), and in research on maize or corn (Yuan and Sun, 2020a, b).…”