First Insights into the Coverage of Conversational Agents in LIS Sources

Abstract

This poster addresses the research question of whether conversational agents (CAs) play a role within the Library and Information Science (LIS) publication sources and provides preliminary insights. At the time of research, the Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) database included 271 LIS publication sources. Twenty‐seven percent of these sources related to research topics on conversational agents. In total, the dataset included 351 documents extracted from Scopus. With 59 publications, the journal Education and Information Technologies listed the greatest number of articles. A ranking by the number of authors showed China (N = 239), the United States (N = 222), and India (N = 87) as the top three countries.