Research Output of Academic Librarians From Irish Higher Education Institutions 2000–2015: Findings From a Review, Analysis, and Survey

O'Brien, Terry; Cronin, Kieran

doi:10.1080/13614533.2016.1181666

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“…To a large extent, the literature highlights factors that impede rather than enable librarians to conduct research. However, some researchers have also asked librarians about their motivations for and perceived benefits of doing research, and those findings present a more positive view: librarians publish for both personal and professional development (O'Brien & Cronin, 2016), they value personally fulfilling research opportunities (Hollister, 2016), and they feel that research helps demonstrate the value of library services and contributes to their evaluation and improvement (Lessick et al, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some librarians have excelled in this aspect of their responsibilities, others have struggled (Walters, 2016;O'Brien & Cronin, 2016). There have been numerous approaches to supporting librarians in their efforts to be productive researchers; however, the impact of these supports has not been well studied.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Much of the research to date has focused on institutional context. Within these articles, authors often address the challenges that librarians face when conducting research and the barriers that may prevent them from being productive researchers (Black & Leysen, 1994;Brown, 2001;Fox, 2007;Kennedy & Brancolini, 2012;Lessick et al, 2016;O'Brien & Cronin, 2016;Powell, Baker & Mika, 2002;Shaw & Szwajcer, 2016;Spring, Doherty, Boyes, & Wilshaw, 2014). Commonly noted challenges and barriers include time constraints, lack of support, and lack of research training or experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding Factors that Encourage Research Productivity for Academic Librarians

Hoffmann¹,

Berg²,

Koufogiannakis³

2017

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Objective -This project identifies the factors that contribute to the success of librarians as active researchers. Research success is generally aligned with productivity and output, and the authors are therefore interested in understanding the factors that encourage research productivity. This fills a gap in the literature on librarians as researchers, which has tended to focus on barriers rather than enablers.Methods -For this quantitative study, we distributed an online survey to 1,653 potential participants across Canada and received 453 usable responses for a 27% response rate. The Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2017, 12.4 103 survey asked participants to report their research outputs and to answer questions that addressed three categories of factors: Individual Attributes, Peers and Community, and Institutional Structures and Supports. We then statistically analyzed participant responses in order to identify relationships between the research output variables (weighted output score and number of peer-reviewed articles) and the three categories, the factors within those categories, and the constituent components.Results -Participants' research output consisted largely of presentations, non-peer-reviewed articles, peer-reviewed articles, and posters. All three categories of factors were significantly related to research output, both for a calculated weighted output score and for number of peerreviewed articles. All of the factors identified within those categories were also significant when tested against weighted output score, but Intrinsic Motivations was not a significant factor when tested against number of peer-reviewed articles. Several components of factors were also not significant for number of peer-reviewed articles. Age was the only significant component of Demographics. Three components of Education and Experience were significant: whether participants had received research training after completing their MLIS, whether they were working on an advanced degree, and the institution where they had obtained their MLIS.Conclusions -Research productivity is significantly impacted by all three categories: Individual Attributes, Peers and Community, and Institutional Structures and Supports. Fostering an environment that focuses on all of these areas will be most likely to promote research output for librarians. At the same time, this study's findings point to particular aspects that warrant further investigation, such as the nature and effect of institutional support and librarians' motivations for doing research.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Understanding Factors that Encourage Research Productivity for Academic Librarians

Hoffmann¹,

Berg²,

Koufogiannakis³

2017

EBLIP

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“…The indicators like Total papers (TP),Total citations (TC), Average citations per paper (ACPP), Annual citations per year (ACPY) are studied in a large number of papers by Abbott and Doucouliagos (2004), Abramo et al (2017), Agboola and Oduwole (2005), Ahmad et al (2018), Anderson and Tressler (2008), Anilkumar (2010, 2014), Anyaogu and Iyabo (2014), Chan et al (2014), Cohn and Farrington (2014), Dalrymple and Varlejs (1995), Dean et al (2011), Falagas et al (2006), Gupta and Bala (2013), Gupta and Dhawan (2008), Gupta et al (2010), Kaur et al (2011), Johanson and Woods (2002), Khiste (2017), Khiste et al (2018), Kostoff (2012), Krishnamurthy and Awari (2015), Kumar et al (2009, 2015), Liu et al (2015), McPherson et al (2013), Maske Dnyaneshwar and Khiste (2018), Murugan and Ravanan (2016), Nagarkar et al (2015), Naheem et al (2017), Nakanjako et al (2017), O’Brien and Cronin (2016), Ocholla et al (2012), Peter et al (2019), Ramos et al (2009), Ray et al (2016), Research Council UK (2010), Siwach and Satish Kumar (2015), Sudhier and Kumar (2010), Tsafe et al (2016), Uma and Rao (2014), Vasishta (2011), Visakhi and Gupta (2013) and Webber (2012). The indicators that reveal the number of collaborative papers at the local, national and international levels are termed as Locally collaborated papers (LCP), Domestic collaborative papers (DCP), National collaborative papers (NCP), and International collaborative papers ICP respectively and reflected in many studies likely…”

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Metrics employed in the evaluation of research productivity: A systematic literature review

Mahapatra

Sahoo

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The present paper makes a systematic review of 131 articles on research productivity basing upon a model developed by Denyer and Tranfield. The current review paper analyzed the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of the sample literature in the field of research productivity. The quantitative analysis incorporates the chronological distribution of articles, keyword wise distribution, form wise distribution, discipline wise distribution, publisher wise distribution, data sources used in the articles, most prolific journals of the publications and qualitative dimensions studied are top-cited articles and all the metrices used in these articles. The paper is based upon literature retrieved from Scopus bibliographic database and other online databases like Emerald, Taylor & Francis, Google Scholar, JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO for full-text articles. It was revealed that there is significant growth in the number of articles during the fourth decade (2011–2020) whereas the highest numbers of citations (1530) have been received during the third decade from 2001 to 2010. Journal articles appeared to be the predominant source of information. A wide range of metrices found to be used in the sample literature to analyze the research productivity namely basic metrics, metrics dealing with growth, collaboration and metrics at institute level and author level metrics. It will serve as a reference tool to the scholars and practitioners in the field who will be acquainted with the publications on research productivity as well as various metrices, laws of bibliometrics, statistical tools, used in the articles.

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“…A comprehensive national survey of publication patterns of Irish academic librarians over a 15-year period (2000-2015) reported a moderate growth in research and publication. 8 In 2010, in a study of academic librarians in the Greater Dublin area, 23 librarians underwent semi-structured interviews; the majority of them reported having published or presented in some format. 9…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Practice and projects as a basis for academic publishing: case study from Maynooth University Library

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Murphy

Dodd

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Research Output of Academic Librarians From Irish Higher Education Institutions 2000–2015: Findings From a Review, Analysis, and Survey

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

Understanding Factors that Encourage Research Productivity for Academic Librarians

Understanding Factors that Encourage Research Productivity for Academic Librarians

Metrics employed in the evaluation of research productivity: A systematic literature review

Practice and projects as a basis for academic publishing: case study from Maynooth University Library

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