The cognitive structure of Library and Information Science: Analysis of article title words

Milojević, Staša; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Yan, Erjia; Ding, Ying

doi:10.1002/asi.21602

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“…Indeed, there has been an almost exponential increase in publications on this subject since the 1990s (Wilson 2008). Currently, the field of IB has achieved its own identity within the ambit of research into library and information science (LIS) (Milojević et al 2011). It is characterized, among other things, by being permeable to the focus of other disciplines, so it is common to find research published with several theoretical contributions and methodologies deriving from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and education, among others.…”

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

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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.

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

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“…[22] Larivière et al used bibliographic data to analyze 110 years of the field of library and information science and identified major shifts occurring in 1960 and 1990. [23] Other work includes Järvelin and Vakkari, 1990;Milojevic et al, 2011;and Sugimoto et al, 2009. [24][25][26] In addition to works that rely on existing metadata, there are longitudinal studies of domains that use algorithmic techniques to identify topics and then analyze the changes in frequency over time of those same topics.…”

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“…[23] Other work includes Järvelin and Vakkari, 1990;Milojevic et al, 2011;and Sugimoto et al, 2009. [24][25][26] In addition to works that rely on existing metadata, there are longitudinal studies of domains that use algorithmic techniques to identify topics and then analyze the changes in frequency over time of those same topics. Smeaton et al used information retrieval and clustering techniques to evaluate 25 years of SIGIR conference papers.…”

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A Longitudinal Metric Analysis of Course-subjects to reveal the Evolution of a Discipline: Changes in the Teaching Frequency and Ratio of Courses in Law Schools in the United States over 80 years

Höök¹

2016

J. Scientomet Res.

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This article is a longitudinal, metric analysis of law school course-subjects in the United States. Its data source is the lists of "teachers by subject" contained in the annual directories of the American Association of Law Schools for a total of 57,915 data points. The number of faculty teaching the various course-subjects is compared for three time periods: (1) 1931-1932, (2) 1972-1973, and (3) 2010-2011. The course-subjects are a controlled vocabulary. In addition, the mergence and divergence of course-subjects are noted based on the timing of changes, "includes" statements, and "see also" references. This allows meaningful comparisons across time to reveal which coursesubjects and groups of related course-subjects are rising and falling in importance in the legal academy in the United States. Topics such as International Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Research and Writing have gained the most in terms of the percentage number of teachers teaching these topics. Topics such as Estate Planning, Commercial Law, and Business Associations have lost the most in terms of the percentage number of teachers teaching these topics. In addition, the course-subjects with the highest and lowest average of the length of time they have been taught are reported for each period. [2,3] The course-subjects included in these lists are a controlled vocabulary. Faculty members teaching courses with varying titles and descriptions are listed in the most relevant course-subject category. Together, the course-subjects comprise the unofficial "canon" of topics taught in law schools in the United States. In addition, faculty members teaching each course-subject are binned as to how long they have been teaching that particular course-subject (1) 1-5 years, (2) 6-10 years, and (3) over 10 years. This rich infrastructure allows for insightful *Address for correspondence: E-mail: peter.hook@wayne.edu. KeywordsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Access this article onlineOfficial Publication of Website: www.jscires.org DOI:10.5530/jscires.5.1.4How to cite this article: Hook PA. A longitudinal metric analysis of coursesubjects to reveal the evolution of a discipline: Changes in the teaching frequency and ratio of courses in law schools in the United States over 80 years. J Scientometric Res. 2016;5(1):13-24.

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“…In regard to its multi-disciplinarity, the intellectual structure of library and information science has been analyzed by many scholars (Tuomaala, Järvelin, & Vakkari, 2014;Milojević et al, 2011;Zhao & Strotmann, 2008;Åström, 2007;Moya-Anegón, Herrero-Solana, & Jimenez-Contreras, 2006) and the analyses of the field's knowledge structure have been accumulated to the extent where one can obtain the intellectual structure of the library and information science at various points in time. Still, the study of the intellectual structure of a discipline has to be continued because it shows the research trends and developments in the given field.…”

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The JASIST Editorial Board Members' Research Areas and Keywords of JASIST Research Articles

Kim¹

2014

Journal of the Korean Society for information Management

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This paper examines the characteristics of the JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology) editorial board members and their research areas through author co-citation analysis, and investigates whether the editorial board members' research areas are related with keywords frequently appeared in the journal's research articles. In the process, research areas of the central members and those appeared most frequently as keywords will be identified. Research areas of the 36 members on the JASIST editorial board are collected and categorized to compare with the categorization of keywords extracted from 169 research articles published in JASIST, 2013. The result shows that members with higher centrality in the co-citation network are related with research areas that are also dominant in the distribution of article keywords. The areas include information behavior and searching, information retrieval, information system design, and bibliometrics.

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The cognitive structure of Library and Information Science: Analysis of article title words

Cited by 156 publications

References 54 publications

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

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

A Longitudinal Metric Analysis of Course-subjects to reveal the Evolution of a Discipline: Changes in the Teaching Frequency and Ratio of Courses in Law Schools in the United States over 80 years

The JASIST Editorial Board Members' Research Areas and Keywords of JASIST Research Articles

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