scholarly journals A Questionnaire Survey on Research fields of Information Science in Japanese Universities

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Masaki NISHIZAWA ◽  
Yuan SUN
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Fields

scholarly journals Analysis of the Thematic Overlap Between Library and Information Science and Other Subdisciplines of the Social Communication and Media Sciences in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2a) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Osiński
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
The Media

Purpose/Thesis: The recent decision to join three previously separate disciplines – library and information science, media studies, and cognition and social communication science, into a single discipline of social communication and media sciences prompted the author to investigate if joining of these disciplines according to the compulsory categorization published by the OECD, is supported by an overlap in their fields of research, or by a similarity in their methods of conducting it.Approach/Methods: An analysis of the review articles devoted to the research fields of all three disciplines, and of the information regarding the research interests of the journals affiliated with them, as published on the journals’ websites, allowed the author to establish their thematic scope. The results of this analysis were compared with bibliographic data and sets of keywords found in the affiliated journals. The comparison relied on an analysis of citations, and of coexistence of specialized terms.Results and conclusions: The analysis of the review articles suggested that the basic research fields of library and information science and of the media studies and cognition and social communication science are aligned and complement each other. This conclusion was further supported by the analysis of the guidelines for the potential contributors provided on the websites of the investigated journals. However, the analysis of the bibliographic data and of the keyword sets gave an entirely different idea of the relation between the studied disciplines, indicating that there is no significant thematic overlap between them. Nevertheless, this might be due to the quality of this particular data sample, and to the methods’ susceptibility to data disruption.Originality/Value: The article proves that there is an overlap between library and information science, and the social communication and media sciences. Furthermore, it shows the limits of the citation method and of the specialized terms coexistence method, resulting from the practices of the authors and the editorial teams of some of the journals discussed. The article shows that all quantitative studies of the state of scholarship in a given discipline in Poland must be conducted with great care, and their results should not be the only basis for conclusions.

An index-based ranking of conferences in a distinctive manner

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farooq ◽  
Hikmat Ullah Khan ◽  
Tassawar Iqbal ◽  
Saqib Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Data Set ◽  
H Index ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bibliometric Measures ◽  
Better Than

Purpose Bibliometrics is one of the research fields in library and information science that deals with the analysis of academic entities. In this regard, to gauge the productivity and popularity of authors, publication counts and citation counts are common bibliometric measures. Similarly, the significance of a journal is measured using another bibliometric measure, impact factor. However, scarce attention has been paid to find the impact and productivity of conferences using these bibliometric measures. Moreover, the application of the existing techniques rarely finds the impact of conferences in a distinctive manner. The purpose of this paper is to propose and compare the DS-index with existing bibliometric indices, such as h-index, g-index and R-index, to study and rank conferences distinctively based on their significance. Design/methodology/approach The DS-index is applied to the self-developed large DBLP data set having publication data over 50 years covering more than 10,000 conferences. Findings The empirical results of the proposed index are compared with the existing indices using the standard performance evaluation measures. The results confirm that the DS-index performs better than other indices in ranking the conferences in a distinctive manner. Originality/value Scarce attention is paid to rank conferences in distinctive manner using bibliometric measures. In addition, exploiting the DS-index to assign unique ranks to the different conferences makes this research work novel.

Analysis on the research progress of library and information science since the new century

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhui Song ◽  
Kaiyang Wei ◽  
Siluo Yang ◽  
Fei Shu ◽  
Junping Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Frequency Variation ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Maps ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Research Fields

PurposeLibrary science and information science, two subdisciplines of library and information science (LIS), are developed independently but interconnectedly. In this information age, LIS is in a special period of transformation and development, which has caused some changes in both library science and information science. By accurately capturing these changes and analyzing them, the authors can effectively map the development of LIS in the new century, thus providing a reference for the evolution and development of the field. The purposes of this paper are to explore the mainstream research fields and frontiers of library science and information science, respectively, since the new century, and to make a comparative analysis of the two subdisciplines.Design/methodology/approachBy using CiteSpace to visualize LIS journals, this study draws knowledge maps of the two subdisciplines of LIS through the co-occurrence descriptors network. Using burst detection algorithm, this study detects words of high frequency variation by investigating the time frequency distribution.FindingsThe results show that the research focus of library science has experienced a change from traditional to digital library while information science has moved from information to data focus. This study also finds the similarities and differences between mainstream areas of library science and information science.Originality/valueThis study focuses on the evolution of library science and information science, and explores their mainstream research fields and frontiers in the 21st century. These findings will promote the transformation and development of LIS as well as provide research directions for scholars in the field.

Altmetrics Research on the Global Output

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
C. Baskaran
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Relative Growth Rate ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The University

The chapter describes the research publications on altmetrics research during 2012-2019. A total of 461 publications were brought out on this area over period of study. 25.81% of the publications were published in the year 2018. It is analyzed that information science and library science areas hold the majority 293 (63.55%) of the publications, and the University of Wolverhampton has contributed the highest number (40; 8.67%) of the publications in the field of altmetrics. The study found that lowest relative growth rate (RGR; 0.04) was found in 2008. 2010, 2012, and 2014 RGR rose up to 0.75 in 1990, and the average mean value of relative growth rate (RGR) is 0.15. The highest number of publications (293; 63.55%) accumulated from information science library science. This area has been ranked first among 25 research fields listed in the study.

scholarly journals Thesis Conducted by Student in Medical Informatics Field Based on Health Informatics Competencies Framework: A Study in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Elham Nazari ◽  
Mehran Aghemiri ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Tabatabaei ◽  
Sayyed Mostafa Mostafavi ◽  
Shokoufeh Aalaei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The University

Introduction: One of the challenges of multidisciplinary disciplines such as Medical Informatics, health information technology, etc., especially for those who have just started research in this field, is the lack of familiarity with research fields in this field. Medical Informatics has various research fields related to the use of technology in the field of health care with the aim of reducing costs, improving the quality of health care and reducing possible medical errors. Iran is a country where medical informatics is a fledgling field and few universities in This field is accepted by students. Due to the specializations and clinical facilities concentrated in each university, research is being done differently and with variety. At the same time, some important fields related to the field may be missed. Therefore, in this study, in order to identify the most researched fields in this field and the neglected fields of research, the dissertations done in the field of medical informatics in Iranian universities were reviewed based on the health informatics framework.Materials and methods: Defended dissertations available to master and doctoral students in medical informatics in the years 2001 to 2018 in the universities of Tehran, Iran, Tarbiat Modares, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashhad were collected in this study. Three medical informatics graduates from different universities assigned dissertation titles to a competency and an area of skill based on the Health Informatics Competencies Framework. The second stage of the study was performed by two other experts (different from the previous three experts). At this stage, the opinions of three experts on thesis were compared. Each dissertation title was assigned to a specific competency and a specific area of skill by the majority opinion method. Results: The results showed that most of the master's and doctoral dissertations in medical informatics were in the field of information science and methods, in which area of skill (data analysis and visualization) and decision support systems and informatics for participatory health were more than others. PhD students and the area of skill (decision support system) and (Architecture of health IS) are more popular with postgraduate students, while PhD students at the University of Mashhad, Tehran and Shahid Beheshti in the field of methods and basic principles of activities More than other areas, information and communication technology, biomedical science and health were not considered. Shahid Beheshti University had the most activity in the skill (Realization of benefits from IS) in the master's degree and in the degree PhD in skill (Application Mathematical concepts) has the most activity, in total, the most Competencies in which dissertations have been done in the country Competency (information science and core principles and method s) have been. In the universities of Iran, Tehran and Mashhad, the frequency of dissertations in competency (core principles and methods) and in other universities in competency (information science) has been higher. Most research in the doctoral program in 2017 was related to the University of Mashhad. Most of the research in master's degree in 2014 was related to Iran University. Most of the research in the doctoral program in 2017 was related to Mashhad University.Conclusion: The results of this research can help field researchers in conducting new research in the field and can help in useful, scientific and effective design of research projects of researchers, university professors, educational planners and health care service providers. Also, due to the interdisciplinary nature of medical informatics, the use of professors in various fields and specialties in Iranian universities can be effective in defining topics for research for theses.

scholarly journals General Total Least Squares Theory for Geodetic Coordinate Transformations

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Qin ◽  
Xing Fang ◽  
Wenxian Zeng ◽  
Bin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Global Positioning System ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Total Least Squares ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Normal Equation ◽  
Transformation Models ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Global Positioning

Datum transformations are a fundamental issue in geodesy, Global Positioning System (GPS) science and technology, geographical information science (GIS), and other research fields. In this study, we establish a general total least squares (TLS) theory which allows the errors-in-variables model with different constraints to formulate all transformation models, including affine, orthogonal, similarity, and rigid transformations. Through the adaptation of the transformation models to the constrained TLS problem, the nonlinear constrained normal equation is analytically derived, and the transformation parameters can be iteratively estimated by fixed-point formulas. We also provide the statistical characteristics of the parameter estimator and the unit of precision of the control points. Two examples are given, as well as an analysis of the results on how the estimated quantities vary when the number of constraints becomes larger.

Connecting Museum Collections and Research as Scientific Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Masaharu Motokawa ◽  
Haruyoshi Gotoh ◽  
Shunsuke Yamashita ◽  
Hidetoshi Nagamasu ◽  
Terufumi Ohno
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Research Publication ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Connection System ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
University Museum ◽  
Scientific Infrastructure ◽  
Voluntary Basis

University museums are considered centers of object-based research. In object-based research, two interactive cycles connect collections and research during the production of new scientific results. To achieve good circulation of these two interactive cycles, connections between collection items and research publications are indispensable. However, these connections are currently made on a voluntary basis by each university museum. We expect that the establishment of a two-way connection system between collections and research will serve a new scientific infrastructure and worldwide framework. We propose the conceptual design of the ‘Connections between Collections and Research’ (CCR) database that might be linked with research publication and museum collection databases. Connections between research and collections will contribute to scientific clarity and visibility, support collection management, and promote disciplinary and interdisciplinary science based on each collection. Cooperation and networking by university museums, as well as by institutes and scientists that maintain and utilize collections is required in order to realize the development of this scientific infrastructure. By reflecting the resources of university collections and scientists in various research fields, including information science, university museums worldwide might make significant contributions to the establishment and organization of a new system that aims to connect collections and research.

Construction of Emergency Special Database Based on Quality Control Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 1504-1507
Author(s):  
Yu Rong Yu ◽  
Ling Yu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Use

With the application of information science in research fields, the effective use of information has been a hot topic among researchers all over the world. As an effective way to improve the utilization of information, special database has been applied to many research fields by researchers. The paper researched on the construction of emergency special database for there are few researches on the topic. With the quality control theory, the paper proposed methods and process to construct emergency special database so as to improve the effective utilization of emergency information.

Paradigms of Library and Information Science in the Networked Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineta Krauls
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Multidimensional Problems ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Networked Society

Essential premises and problems of the Library and Information Science (LIS) paradigms’ shift (uncertainty of scientific boundaries and fragmentation; various historical, sociological and organizational conditions) are analyzed on the case of Vilnius University. Since 1949 Lithuanian university studies and research in the field of LIS had experienced few changes (periods of paradigm shift), that essentially had been preconditioned by general LIS and society’s development tendencies. The case of Vilnius University allows us detect humanitarian, sociological, informational and communicational paradigms. Their formation takes the background in the epistemological relations of LIS to the other sciences and in the necessity to solve practical problems of libraries as well as other information institutions. One of the major challenges that LIS has to face is the requirement to research complicated questions: information services to the society in general as well as individuals; information needs; work of information institutions. Multidimensional problems of LIS field require interdisciplinary view as well as methodological and theoretical transformations. Constant interaction of LIS with other science fosters interdisciplinary research fields and threatens the integrity of LIS on theoretical and methodological levels. Instability of LIS status displays itself not only in theoretical, but also in organizational aspects. Uncertain limits of LIS and tight relations with other sciences enforce dissociation or integration of academic units, while extensive amount of research tasks in LIS field is hardly being performed due to the lack of personnel.

A bibliometrics study of library and information science doctoral dissertations in China from 2011 to 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ting Wang ◽  
Brady Lund ◽  
Mirah Dow
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Time Development ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Online Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations

By reading the titles, abstracts, and keywords of LIS doctoral dissertations in China from 2011–2020 and conducting cluster analysis and network analysis of keywords, this study aims to understand the intelligence structure of LIS doctoral dissertations in China, as well as the disciplines and topics intersecting with LIS. The results indicated that Wuhan University had the highest number of doctoral dissertations among all the selected universities offering LIS doctoral education. Research fields mainly focus on online information behavior and information services. The findings could be because of the development of computer science and information technology in the past decade, which indicates that the research direction of LIS in China follows the trend of time development.

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