Scholarly Publications on Information Literacy (1989-2020): A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

Information Literacy is one of the focus areas of research conducted by researchers from different cross-sections of disciplines. The present bibliometric study conducted based on scholarly communications on the subject within 31 years during 1989-2020 has revealed many clues. For the study, from the Web of Science database, bibliometrix R-package Biblioshiny and VOSviewer could generate 1764 documents from different 357 sources having a total of 35558 references. The study's findings indicate that 2016 is the most contributing year for Information Literacy related publications. The USA tops in the aspects of most productive country and most cited country of the publication. At the same time, M. Pinto is found to contribute a maximum of 37 publications. Of the top 20 scholarly journals, 'Journal of Academic Librarianship' is the highest in communicating such articles with 166 numbers.

Leveraging information literacy: Mapping the conceptual influence and appropriation of information literacy in other disciplinary landscapes

“…This interest means there has been growing emphasis on mapping the field and the use of bibliometric methods has formed one of the key ways in which this has been done. First appearing in the early 2000s, initial research in the area tended to perform basic exploratory analyses of relevant published literature, including examining key journals, language of publication and most prolific authors, amongst other markers (Bapte, 2020;Dudziak, 2010;Kolle, 2017;Majid et al, 2017;Nazim and Ahmad, 2007;Park and Kim, 2011;Singh and Yumnam, 2020;Sproles et al, 2013;Taşkın et al, 2013). Illuminating emerging publication trends, these studies also provided an indication of the wide variety of disciplinary contexts in which information literacy had been examined, including LIS, Education, Computer Science and Health, amongst other areas (e.g.…”