Library and Information Science research areas: A content analysis of articles from the top 10 journals 2007–8

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Rochester and Vakkari, 2003). However, no earlier study has covered authorship patterns and the main themes appearing in professional LIS literature over the period 2007-8. Literature review Content analysis in LISContent analysis provides insight into the development of a profession as it indicates the subject trends and major issues that occupy the profession within a given period of time (Blessinger and Frasier, 2007). Content analysis of LIS research has been the central topic of various studies. Several studies have focused on subjects and themes in LIS. Atkins (1988) reviewed a decade of literature from 1975 through 1985. He used a quantitative analysis of subject trends in LIS publishing, and found a heavy focus on AbstractThe current study seeks to describe and analyze journal research publications in the top 10 Library and Information Science journals from 2007-8. The paper presents a statistical descriptive analysis of authorship patterns (geographical distribution and affiliation) and keywords. Furthermore, it displays a thorough content analysis of keywords and abstracts extracted from 10 leading Information Science journals in -8, using Zins' (2007 classification scheme of Information Science. The main results suggest the tendency of authors towards collaboration in authorship. North American and European authors -from the core discipline of Librarianship and Information Science -can be considered as leaders in the top 10 LIS journals. Furthermore, there are three major cores of research in these journals: information technology, methodology and social information science. It is important that LIS researchers, professionals, teachers and students be keenly aware of the updated main spheres of research in top leading LIS journals.

Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in <i>Nigerian Libraries</i>: 2005-2014

“…In summary, the papers in the journal were distributed evenly between the single author's papers (50.0%) and joint or coauthored papers (50.0%). The results of the study align with that of previous studies [14,5] that revealed dominance of single authors' papers in LIS research. The results obtained by Aina and Mooko [15] showed that 79.6% of publications in their study were published by single authors while Mujkerjee [6] found that the highest proportion of articles in his study was led by single authorship (35.59%).…”

“…A number of studies have been conducted on bibliometric analysis of publication patterns of individual journals in library and information science (LIS) around the world [3,4,5,6] and Africa (Nigeria) in particular [7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Aharony [5] did bibliometric analysis to examine authorship patterns in the top ten journals in Library and Information Science (LIS) including core research areas.…”

“…Aharony [5] did bibliometric analysis to examine authorship patterns in the top ten journals in Library and Information Science (LIS) including core research areas. A content analysis of articles published in top ten journals from 2007-2008 was carried out with the results indicating that most articles in the journals were published by two-authors (35.76%) and was followed by single authors (28.72%), the paper concluded that authorship pattern was in favor of collaboration.…”

Investigación sobre Bibliotecología, Ciencia de la Información, e Inteligencia Empresarial, a través de las presentaciones a los congresos INFO e IntEmpres: un análisis bibliométrico (2002-2012)

“…Estas áreas de la GIyC han sido igualmente visibles en la composición temática de la BCI según otros resultados (ej. : Prebor, 2010;Aharony, 2011;Larivière y otros, 2012).…”

Reflections of affect in studies of information behavior in HIV/AIDS contexts: An exploratory quantitative content analysis

“…Quantitative content analysis is "a research technique for making replicable and valid inferences from texts (or other meaningful matter) to the contexts in their use" (Krippendorf, 2013, p. 24). This method is a standard one in the social sciences, and in the area of information behavior several authors have applied content analysis, including Aharony (2012), Bar-Ilan (2000), Fourie (2012), Julien and Given (2003), Järvelin and Vakkari (1993), Julien (1996), Julien et al (2005), Julien et al (2011), and White and Marsh (2006).…”