College &amp; Research Libraries: Its First Forty Years

Cline, Gloria S.

doi:10.5860/crl_43_03_208

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“…The results of the K-S goodness-of-fit test indicate that Lotka's law can be used as a valid means of predicting author productivity in the field of library and information studies. In contrast to earlier studies in the field, (Budd & Seavey, 1990;Cline, 1982;Coile, 1977;Murphy, 1973;Schorr, 1974) this study found that Lotka's law is indeed applicable to library and information studies and reliably so. This in part, is due to the fact that the study closely followed the procedures outlined by Pao (1985), which mirrored that of Lotka's original 1926 study more so than any of the previous studies conducted in LIS or other disciplines and fields.…”

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“…These sources offered sufficient representation of publications produced by an author during his professional lifetime and in the latter case, perhaps his or her entire lifetime. There have been a number of single journal-based studies in library and information studies testing Lotka's law (Cline, 1982;Nisonger, 1996;Potter, 1981), which have resulted in misleading and non-generalizable results.…”

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“…Coile noted that Schorr included co-authors in his total author count and used a chi-square goodness-of-fit test. In his opinion, Coile felt that the results from both Shorr's and Murphy's findings were not empirically valid based on their deviance from Lotka's formula and procedures this opinion was concurred by subsequent Lotkaian researchers (Nicholls, 1989;Pao, 1985;Potter, 1981) While examining the changes that occurred during the publication of one of the field's premier journals, College & Research Libraries (C&RL) Cline (1982) also looked at the citation patterns of authors contributing to the journal, from 1939 -1979. A total of 1,240 principal authors contributed 1,775 articles to C&RL during this 40-year period resulting in an average of 1.43 articles per author.…”

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An Examination of Lotka’s law in the Field of Library and Information Studies

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An Examination of Lotka’s law in the Field of Library and Information Studies

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“…These macroanalyses typically include study of the broad subject dispersion of cited items, using such tools as the Library of Congress classification system. Among the reference studies carried out in library and information science or its subfields, one should mention Peritz (1981) and Cline (1982). A bibliography of the major reference studies from all disciplines published during the last decade is included in Nisonger (1992).…”

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Semantic relationships between cited and citing articles in library and information science journals

Harter

Nisonger

Weng

1993

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The act of referencing another author's work in a scholarly or research paper is usually assumed to signal a direct semantic relationship between the citing and cited work. The present article reports a study that examines this assumption directly. The purpose of the research is to investigate the semantic relationship between citing and cited documents for a sample of document pairs in three journals in library and information science: Library Journal, College and Research Libraries, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science. A macroanalysis, based on a comparison of the Library of Congress class numbers assigned citing and cited documents, and a microanalysis, based on a comparison of descriptors assigned citing and cited documents by three indexing and abstracting journals, ERIC, LISA, and Library Literature, were conducted. Both analyses suggest that the subject similarity among pairs of cited and citing documents is typically very small, supporting a subjective, psychological view of relevance and a trial‐and‐error, heuristic understanding of the information search and research processes. The results of the study have implications for collection development, for an understanding of psychological relevance, and for the results of doing information retrieval using cited references. Several intriguing methodological questions are raised for future research, including the role of indexing depth, specificity, and quality on the measurement of document similarity. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…At the time of his study, Thomas E. Nisonger (1996) identified 21 previous authorship studies. 7 Of these, four focused exclusively on the authors of ACRL's flagship journal, College & Research Libraries (C&RL), 8 and several more included C&RL in their comparisons with other library journals. 9 Adapting the methodology used in these studies will provide the opportunity to compare authors of conference papers with authors of library journal articles.…”

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The ACRL Conferences: A Profile of its Presenters

Fennewald

2007

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This study provides a profile of the authors of contributed papers at the first twelve ACRL conferences. It found that the conference presenters tend to be female academic librarians (administrators, reference librarians, and subject specialists) from Doctoral Research institutions in the Midwest. It also discovered several trends. During its 27-year history, there have been increases in the number of female authors, library school faculty giving papers, and authors from master's and baccalaureate institutions. In addition, the rate of collaboration has grown.The profile and its related trends were very similar to what has been reported in C&RL authorship studies-with one exception. Women are more likely to appear as conference presenters than journal authors. Further research should explore the role of gender in scholarly communication.

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College & Research Libraries: Its First Forty Years

Cited by 30 publications

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An Examination of Lotka’s law in the Field of Library and Information Studies

An Examination of Lotka’s law in the Field of Library and Information Studies

Semantic relationships between cited and citing articles in library and information science journals

The ACRL Conferences: A Profile of its Presenters

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