Worldwide contributors to the literature of library and information science: top authors, 2007–2012

Walters, William H.; Wilder, Esther Isabelle

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1519-9

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“…The issues that concern LIS researchers and practitioners of non-western countries may differ from the issues of the faculty members of North America, UK and Europe. Walters and Wilder (2015) studied the contributions of particular disciplines, countries and academic departments to the LIS literature using data published in 51 journals published from 2007 to 2012. Their study has identified different types of journals like LIS core journals, journals oriented towards practice, computer science or management and other LIS journals.…”

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Library and information science research in BRICS countries

Tripathi

Jeevan

Babbar

et al. 2018

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight the research output of library and information science of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations during the ten year period, i.e. 2005-2014, as reflected through the Web of Science database. Design/methodology/approach This study used Social Science Index (SSCI) of Web of Science (WoS) citation database to collect data for the ten year period. All records indexed in SSCI were refined by subject area of “Information Science and Library Science” and selected countries. The downloaded results were analyzed by using specific parameters. Findings WoS indexes different kinds of documents, such as articles, conference proceedings, biographical items, book reviews, corrections, editorial material, letters, reprints and reviews. Out of the BRICS output, almost 90 per cent of papers were articles. Other types of documents included conference papers, review papers and book reviews. China contributed nearly half of the documents followed by Brazil, South Africa, India and Russia. On an average, a document had cited 34 references. More than one-third of records did not receive any citations. It has been observed that the titles that had 11-16 words attracted the most number of citations. The top ten publishers in whose journals the researchers published included Emerald, Elsevier and Springer. The primary subject areas were information science and library science, information systems, interdisciplinary applications and management. About 85 per cent of the documents were published in English. Around 93 per cent of the non-English research publications were in Portuguese, the official language of Brazil. Originality/value There are not many studies on BRICS countries and that too about Library and Information Science (LIS) research output. This study may reveal insights into how LIS researchers interact with local and global issues in a specific spectrum of the world community.

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Library and information science research in BRICS countries

Tripathi

Jeevan

Babbar

et al. 2018

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“…The population studied is the group of librarians identified as accomplished researchers. They were identified through 2 means: employed at Association of Research Libraries institutions who published more than 5 items indexed in the Social Science Citation Index in the last 10 years and the top 50 most published librarianresearchers for 2007-2012 (Walters & Wilder, 2015). This population was recruited into the study that included both a survey and CV component.…”

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“…The list was formed from two sources of data. The authors supplemented this list with a second source of data: a list of researchers not necessarily affiliated with ARL Libraries provided by the first author of an article about worldwide contributors to the literature of library and information science (Walters & Wilder, 2015). This study identified the top librarian authors in the field (based on a harmonic weight of authors publishing in 31 LIS journals).…”

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An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers

Kennedy

Brancolini

Kennedy

2020

EBLIP

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Objective -This work explores potential factors that may contribute to a librarian becoming a highly productive researcher. An understanding of the factors can provide evidence based guidance to those at the beginning of their research careers in designing their own trajectories and to library administrators who seek to create work conditions that contribute to librarian Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2020, 15.1 180 research productivity. The current study is the first to explore the factors from the perspective of the profession's most accomplished librarian-researchers.Methods -This exploratory and descriptive study recruited 78 academic librarians identified as highly productive researchers; 46 librarians participated in a survey about their professional training and research environments, research networks, and beliefs about the research process. Respondents supplied a recent CV which was coded to produce a research output score for the past 10 years. In addition to fixed-response questions, there were five open-ended questions about possible success factors. All data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and tests of significance correlations.Results -Accomplished librarian-researchers have professional training backgrounds and research environments that vary widely. None is statistically associated with research output. Those with densely connected networks of research colleagues who both know each other and do research together is significantly related to research output. A large group of those identified in the research networks are "both friend and colleague" and offer each other reciprocal support. In open-ended questions, respondents mentioned factors that equally span the three categories of research success: individual attributes, peers and community, and institutional structures.Conclusion -The authors found that that there are many paths to becoming an accomplished librarian-researcher and numerous factors are conducive to achieving this distinction. A positive research environment includes high institutional expectations; a variety of institutional supports for research; and extrinsic rewards, such as salary increases, tenure, promotion, and opportunities for advancement. The authors further conclude that a librarian's research network may be an important factor in becoming an accomplished librarian-researcher. This finding is supported by both the research network analysis and responses to open-ended questions in which collaboration was a frequent theme.

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“…Allocation of hierarchical information is easily automated using the harmonic formula (e.g. Walters & Wilder, 2015).…”

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“…It also accommodates additional byline information which, for instance, may indicate the equality of some or all coauthors, or the presence of a senior author. Recent studies of field specific publication patterns have used the harmonic formula to partially eliminate EqB (Fernandes, 2014;Walters & Wilder, 2015), but future studies must also include additional byline information about equality or seniority in an effort to completely eliminate EqB.…”

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Contributory inequality alters assessment of academic output gap between comparable countries

Hagen

2015

Journal of Informetrics

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a b s t r a c tAn elite segment of the academic output gap between Denmark and Norway was examined using harmonic estimates of publication credit for contributions to Science and Nature in 2012 and 2013. Denmark still leads but the gap narrowed in 2013 as Norway's credit increased 58%, while Denmark's credit increased only 5.4%, even though Norway had 36% fewer, and Denmark 40% more, coauthor contributions than in 2012. Concurrently, the credit produced by the least productive half of the contributions rose tenfold from 0.9% to 10.1% for Norway, but dropped from 7.2% to 5.7% for Denmark. Overall, contributory inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, fell from 0.78 to 0.51 for Norway, but rose from 0.63 to 0.68 for Denmark. Neither gap narrowing nor the positive association between reduced contributory inequality and increased credit were detected by conventional metrics. Conventional metrics are confounded by equalizing bias (EqB) which favours small contributors at the expense of large contributors, and which carries an element of reverse meritocracy and systemic injustice into bibliometric performance assessment. EqB was corrected by using all relevant byline information from every coauthored publication in the source data. This approach demonstrates the feasibility of using EqB-corrected publication credit in gap assessment at the national level.

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Worldwide contributors to the literature of library and information science: top authors, 2007–2012

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

Library and information science research in BRICS countries

Library and information science research in BRICS countries

An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers

Contributory inequality alters assessment of academic output gap between comparable countries

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