Teaching Bibliometrics

Ungern-Sternberg, Sara von

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“…Bibliometrics is traditionally associated with the quantitative measure of documentary materials and embraces all studies that seek to quantify the process of written communication. Bibliometrics methods are used especially in studies of properties and the behaviour of recorded knowledge to analyse the structures of scientific and research areas and to evaluate the research activity and administration of scientific information (Wormell, 2001;Ungern-Sternberg, 1995). The advantages of bibliometrics as a research approach include the fact that it is quantitative and objective; unveils research issues undetected by the other methods; examines the exchange of knowledge and scientific communication (Dayu, 2012).…”

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Publishing and perishing? Publishing patterns of information science academics in Kenya

Kwanya

2018

Information Development

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This study investigated the publishing patterns of information science academics in Kenya. Using a bibliometric approach, the author conducted an analysis of the quantity, quality and visibility of the publications indexed by Google Scholar. Data for the analysis was collected using Harzing’s “Publish or Perish” software from Google Scholar and presented using VOSviewer software. The findings of the study revealed low quantity, quality and visibility of research publications by information science academics in Kenya. Twenty (22.4%) serving academics are yet to publish any scholarly work. Similarly, 185 (42%) of the published papers have not been cited. This low publishing performance can be attributed to lack of scholarly communication skills; inadequate research funding and facilitation; limited access to scholarly communication channels; and heavy teaching workloads, among other factors. The quantity, quality and visibility of publications by information science academics in Kenya can be enhanced by training the lecturers on scholarly communication; accrediting journals and publishers; increasing research funding; strengthening research collaboration; increasing scholarly forums and platforms; and balancing lecturers’ teaching and research workloads.

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Publishing and perishing? Publishing patterns of information science academics in Kenya

Kwanya

2018

Information Development

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“…Hood & Wilson (200 I :294) observe that the term "comes from the German term 'informetrie' and was first proposed in 1979 by Nacke to cover that part of information science dealing with the measurement of information phenomena and the application of mathematical methods to the discipline's problems, to bibliometrics and parts of information retrieval theory, and perhaps more widely". The importance of bibliometrics/informetrics methods as tools for evaluating scientific impact is well stipulated by Moed (2002:731) Informetrics consists of several methodologies such as bibliographic coupling, citation analysis, publication count, coword analysis, co-citation analysisand webometrics/cybermetrics (Turnbull, 2000); Ungern-Sternberg, 1995;UngernSternberg, 2000). These evaluative/analyticaltechniques can be grouped into two broad areas, namely, descriptive or evaluative informetric res~arch methodologies (Nicholas & Ritchie, 1978;Hertzel, 1987).…”

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Empowering the South African community's AIDS intervention workforce: an informetric study of HIV/AIDS research projects, with special reference to masters and doctoral dissertations and theses

Onyancha¹

2013

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

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The prevalence rate of HIV in South Africa has maintained an alarmingly high level and has become a great concern for all stakeholders. The situation has demanded an increase in the number and strengthening of the HIV/AIDS intervention workforce to fight the pandemic. This has resulted in many individuals enrolling to undergo training in institutions of higher learning and the aftermath has been an increased number of graduates conducting research on various aspects of the disease. The purpose of this study is to generally assess the role that is being played by various institutions of higher leaning in South Africa in graduate preparedness as a means of empowering the country's HIV/AIDS intervention workforce. Using publication count, the study analyses research publications found indexed in SABINET's Current and Completed Research and the Union Catalog of Theses and Dissertations databases. Results are presented under the headings: empowerment trends: language of empowerment; institutions behind the empowerment: individuals behind the empowerment: "study leaders" and students; information sources for empowerment; purposes for which candidates were prepared (or empowered): and the areas/sectors of empowerment. Conclusions and recommendations as well as suggestions for further research are provided.Keywords: HIV, Acquired Immunodetlciency Syndrome, Infonnetrics, South Africa, Empowerment I INTRODUCTIONIn the business circles, the term empowerment refers to a condition whereby employees have the authority to make decisions and take action in their work placeswithout prior approval (www.asq.org/info/glossary/e.htm/) while to empower a community means to increase its ability to do things for itself, resulting to more skills, more confidence, and more effective organization on the part of the empowered community. Health professionals, on the other hand, define empowerment as a process of adding vitality, energy, and new powerful resources to a person (www.neurosemantics.com/ Articles/Glossary.htm). When these three definitions are put together, empowering a community and its labor force will mean enabling it to do things for itself through the allocation of financial resources, training of professionals in various fields of knowledge as well as the provision of relevant information that can aid in informed decision-making thereby enhancing a community's vitality, energy and human resources.Worldwide, universities are recognized for their role in human resources development. Countries all over the world do recognize the importance and role of universities and other institutions of higher learning such as diploma and certificate colleges in the promotion of research, training and community outreach and, in the process, have put in place mechanisms to improve research in various disciplines, including biomedicine. Policies have been formulated in countries such as South Africa in order to encourage as well as strengthen research in such areas as HIV/AIDS. For instance, in South Africa, the Ministry of Education -th...

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“…Bibliographic analyses are able to reveal underlying relationships among journals and authors, therefore offering insights and a deeper understanding of the intellectual landscape of a field and the research disciplines that contribute to it (Gobster and Xiang, 2012). Von Ungern-Sternberg (1998) suggests that bibliometric analyses have become a vitally important tool for researchers to develop their research libraries, reiterating the fact that scientists arrange themselves in networks as opposed to a discipline-based model (Von Ungern-Sternberg, 1998). This research proposes a bibliographic analysis of the EM field to further expose and critically analyse this intellectual landscape.…”

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Examining the boundaries of entrepreneurial marketing: a bibliographic analysis

Ferreira

Robertson

2020

JRME

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Purpose Literature in the entrepreneurial marketing (EM) field continues to flourish with a noted increase in publications in recent years. This study aims to conduct a bibliographic analysis of EM literature, to examine the intellectual landscape of the field and assess scientific productivity and impact. Design/methodology/approach A total of 1,363 EM papers, extracted from the Web of Science database, were identified between 2005 and 2019. Co-authorship, citation, co-citation and keyword co-occurrence were examined, identifying the most-prominent authors, articles, journals and countries of publication, citation and co-citation. Network maps were created using VOSviewer. Findings The findings indicate that EM has become a thriving, multidisciplinary field that has reached a point of maturity, where exploration is seemingly a major focus of the field’s expansion. This maturity is mirrored in the evolution of the EM operationalisation – moving from a narrowly defined scope to a far broader and encompassing operationalisation. Distinct schools of thought emerging in the literature have been identified and emerging trends guiding the future growth of the EM field have been discussed. The expansion of the field continues to be assembled on the foundation of a number of seminal papers. Originality/value This research offers an updated examination of the EM field, in particular, including a period of recent expansion in the field. The incorporation of network maps offers a visual depiction of the intellectual landscape of the field.

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Teaching Bibliometrics

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Publishing and perishing? Publishing patterns of information science academics in Kenya

Publishing and perishing? Publishing patterns of information science academics in Kenya

Empowering the South African community's AIDS intervention workforce: an informetric study of HIV/AIDS research projects, with special reference to masters and doctoral dissertations and theses

Examining the boundaries of entrepreneurial marketing: a bibliographic analysis

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