Mapping recent information behavior research: an analysis of co-authorship and co-citation networks

Abstract

There has been an increase in research published on information behavior in recent years, and this has been accompanied by an increase in its diversity and interaction with other fields, particularly information retrieval. The aims of this study are to determine which researchers have contributed to producing the current body of knowledge on this subject, and to describe its intellectual basis. A bibliometric and network analysis was applied to authorship and co-authorship as well as citation and co-citation. According to these analyses, there is a small number of authors who can be considered to be the most productive and who publish regularly, and a large number of transient ones. Other findings reveal a marked predominance of theoretical works, some examples of qualitative methodology that originate in other areas of social science, and a high incidence of research focused on the user interaction with information retrieval systems and the information behavior of doctors.

The scaling relationship between citation‐based performance and coauthorship patterns in natural sciences

“…The trend of studying the influence of collaboration on the impact of articles has been widely supported (Katz & Hicks, ; Katz & Martin, ; Kliegl & Bates, ; Tang & Shapira, ; Zhai, Yan, Shibchurn, & Song, ). Recently, Avkiran (), Elena Luna‐Morales (), Glänzel (), González‐Teruel, González‐Alcaide, Barrios, and Abad‐García (), Rousseau (), Rousseau and Ding (), and Van Raan () published findings about the existence or absence of a relationship between collaboration and the impact of articles in several scientific fields.…”

An evaluation of information behaviour studies through the Scholarly Capital Model

“…The database was queried using the following search strategy, which has previously been employed by González‐Teruel et al . () and Soheili and Khasseh ():

TOPIC: (information behavio*) OR TOPIC: (information need*) OR TOPIC: (information seek*) OR TOPIC: (information us*) OR TOPIC: (information search* behavio*) TOPIC: (information shari* behavio*).

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“…The Web of Science database was established as the source for extracting the data of these papers. The database was queried using the following search strategy, which has previously been employed by González-Teruel et al (2015) and Soheili and Khasseh (2015):…”

“…González‐Teruel, González‐Alcaide, Barrios, and Abad‐García () determined the contribution of researchers in creating the current body of knowledge on information behaviour. They found that a small number of authors are the most productive ones and publish regularly.…”

Analysis of the Practice of Network Technology in Electronic Information Technology

“…At the same time, the actual situation at the site of Wenchuan earthquake was also released to the world in real time, so that international aid organizations and other countries can rescue Wenchuan area. From here, the rational use of network technology, to a certain extent, maximizes resource sharing, ensures that people can learn about relevant information accurately and timely and further enhances the utilization of information resources [4].…”