scholarly journals Library and information science research areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregorio González-Alcaide ◽  
Lourdes Castelló-Cogollos ◽  
Carolina Navarro-Molina ◽  
Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent ◽  
Juan Carlos Valderrama-Zurián
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Areas

scholarly journals Thematic Categorization and Analysis of Peer Reviewed Articles in the LISA Database, 2004-2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Perryman
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
American Society ◽  
Set Up

A Review of: Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio, Lourdes Castello-Cogolles, Carolina Navarro-Molina, et al. “Library and Information Science Research Areas: Analysis of Journal Articles in LISA.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59.1 (2008): 150-4. Objective – To provide an updated categorization of Library and Information Science (LIS) publications and to identify trends in LIS research. Design – Bibliometric study. Setting – The Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database via the CSA Illumina interface. Subjects – 11,273 item records published from 2004-2005 and indexed in LISA. Methods – First, a search was set up to retrieve all records from 2004-2005, limited to peer review items (called “arbitrated works” by the authors (150)) and excluding book reviews. Second, thematic descriptor terms used for the records were identified. Frequency counts for descriptor term occurrence were compiled using Microsoft Access and Pajek software programs. From the results of this search, the top terms were analyzed using the Kamada-Kawai algorithm in order to eliminate descriptor term co-occurrence frequencies under 30. A cluster analysis was used to depict thematic foci for the remaining records, providing a co-word network that visually identified topic areas of most frequent publication. Conclusions were drawn from these findings, and recommendations for further research were provided. Main Results – The authors identified 18 “thematic research core fields” (152) clustered around three large categories, “World Wide Web”, “Education”, and “Libraries”, plus 12 additional peripheral categories, and provided a schematic of field interrelationships. Conclusion – Domains of greatest focus for research “continue to be of practical and applied nature,” (153) but include increased emphasis on the World Wide Web and communications technologies, as well as on user studies. A table of the most frequently occurring areas of research along with their top three descriptor terms is provided (Table 1, 152) (e.g., “World Wide Web” as the top area of research, with “online information retrieval” (268 occurrences), “searching” (132 occurrences), and “web sites” (115 occurrences)).

scholarly journals Mapping the Canadian library and information science research landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora-Lynn Munroe-Lynds ◽  
Marc-André Simard ◽  
Vinson Li ◽  
Emily McClean ◽  
Philippe Mongeon
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Shed Light

This work-in-progress paper aims to map the scholarship produced by the eight Canadian Library and Information Science (LIS) schools. After using the citation network to divide publications into several research areas, we analyze how the research output of different LIS schools is distributed across these areas, in an attempt to shed light on the schools’ specificities and commonalities and how each school contributes to the global picture of Canadian LIS research.

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