Publication Output of Library and Information Science Faculty

From doctoral dissertation to publication

“…He also found that the British faculty was slightly more non-productive than their American colleagues. Varlejs and Dalrymple (1986) checked the 1983 volumes of Library Literature (LL), Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and Information Science Abstracts for 275 full-time faculty teaching at 68 accredited programmes and concluded that only 51.0 percent of these individuals had at least one citation listed in these sources. However, they remarked that these citations might not necessarily be based on research.…”

Citation-based auditing of academic performance

“…(e.g., White, 1993) and publication-based analyses (e.g., Varlejs & Dalrymple, 1986). Two exceptions, however, are Hayes's (1983) analysis of faculty research productivity, and Brace's (1992) evaluation of the "best" library and information science schools.…”

Ranking the research productivity of library and information science faculty and schools: An evaluation of data sources and research methods

“…In 1983, Robert Hayes, then dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of California at Los Angeles, published the first ranking of American Library Association– (ALA‐) accredited LIS schools on the basis of publication and citation counts (Hayes, 1983). Since then, eight similar ranking studies have been published—three based on publication and citation counts (Bates, 1998; Budd, 2000; Budd & Seavey, 1996), one based on citation counts only (Brace, 1992), and four based on publications counts only (Boyce & Hendren, 1996; Pettigrew & Nicholls, 1994; Varlejs & Dalrymple, 1986; Wallace, 1990). 2 Details on these studies are shown in Table 1.…”