The interdisciplinary influence of library and information science 1996-2004: A journal-to-journal citation analysis

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 546-565

  Odell, Jere ^a   Gabbard, Ralph ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

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EID: 57849101168     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.69.6.546     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. This citation data was acquired from the Journal Citation Reports (Social Science Edition) subject category "Information Science and Library Science" (ISLS); in this paper, LIS is used interchangeably with ISLS.
2. Clement Y.K. So, "Citation Patterns of Core Communication Journals: An Assessment of the Developmental Status of Communication," Human Communication Research 15, no. 2 (1988): 248.
3. Ibid., 244-49.
4. Terry Meyer and John Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science: Who Cites Librarians?" College & Research Libraries 57, no. 1 (1996): 31-32.
5. Ibid., 31.
6. In the year 2000, this journal changed its title to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
7. Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," Table 1, 27.
8. Ibid., 29.
9. According to data in Meyer and Spencer's Table 1 (p. 27), Scientometrics and Journal of the American Society for Information Science together received a total of 3,138 citations (905 other field citations and 2,233 LIS citations). When these citations are subtracted from Table 1, the LIS titles remaining receive 1,026 other field citations and 10,214 LIS citations. Thus, without these two titles, the percentage of other field citations would fall from 13.4% (1,931/14,378), to 9.1% (1,026/11,240) of the total citations received.
10. Ibid., 25.
11. JCR calculates a journal's "Impact Factor " by dividing the total citations received in one year by the number of articles published in the two previous years (Journal Citation Reports, 2005).
12. Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," 27.
13. Ibid., 23-33.
14. Eugene Garfield, "Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas," Science 122, no. 3159 (1955): 108-11;
15. Anton J. Nederhof, "Bibliometric Monitoring of Research Performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A Review," Scientometrics 66, no. 1 (2005): 81-100;
16. Thomas E. Nisonger, "Use of the Journal Citation Reports for Serials Management in Research Libraries: An Investigation of the Effect of Self-citation on Journal Rankings in Library and Information Science and Genetics," College & Research Libraries 61, no. 3 (2000): 263-75.
17. Eugene Garfield, "Citation Indexing for Studying Science," Nature 227 (1970): 669.
18. Kevin W. Boyack, Richard Klavans, and Katy Borner, "Mapping the Backbone of Science," Scientometrics 64, no. 3 (2005): 351-74;
19. Bluma C. Peritz and Judit Bar-Ilan, "The Sources Used by Bibliometrics-Scientometrics as Reflected in References," Scientometrics 54, no. 2 (2002): 269-84;
20. Howard D. White and Katherine W. McCain, "Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-Citation Analysis of Information Science, 1972-1995," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49, no. 4 (1998): 327-55.
21. Stephen P. Harter, Thomas E. Nisonger, and Aiwei Weng, "Semantic Relationships between Cited and Citing Articles in Library and Information Science Journals," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44, no. 9 (1993): 544.
22. Henry G. Small, "Paradigms, Citations, and Maps of Science: A Personal History," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 54, no. 5 (2003): 394.
23. Chaomei Chen et al., "Visualizing and Tracking the Growth of Competing Paradigms: Two Case Studies," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53, no. 8 (2002): 678-89;
24. Eugene Garfield, A.I. Pudovkin, and V.S. Istomin, "Why Do We Need Algorithmic Historiography?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science 54, no. 5 (2003): 400-02.
25. White and McCain, "Visualizing a Discipline," 353.
26. Small, "Paradigms, Citations, and Maps of Science," 398.
27. Denise Koufogiannakis and Linda Slater, "A Content Analysis of Librarianship Research," Journal of Information Science 30, no. 2 (2004): 227-39.
28. Robert Grover, Jack Glazier, and Maurice Tsai, "An Analysis of Library and Information Research," Journal of Educational Media & Library Science 28, no. 3 (1991): 295-96;
29. Jeffrey N. Gatten, "Paradigm Restrictions on Interdisciplinary Research into Librarianship," College & Research Libraries 52 (Nov. 1991): 575-84;
30. Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Karen E. Pettigrew, "Surveying the Use of Theory in Library and Information Science Research: A Disciplinary Perspective," Library Trends 50, no. 3 (2002): 406-17.
31. John M Budd, "An Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science," Library Quarterly 65, no. 3 (1995): 295-318;
32. Bill Crowley, "Redefining the Status of the Librarian in Higher Education," College & Research Libraries 57, no. 2 (1996): 113-21;
33. Peter Hernon, "Components of the Research Process: Where Do We Need to Focus Attention?" Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, no. 2 (2001): 81-89.
34. Julian Warner, "W(h)ither Information Science?" Library Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2001): 243-55.
35. In the 2004 JCR Science and Social Sciences editions, "Information Science and Library Science" titles were cross-listed in the following subject categories: "Communication," "Computer Science, Information Systems," "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications," "Geography," "Geography, Physical," "Law," "Management," "Medical Informatics," "Multidisciplinary," and "Social Science, Interdisciplinary. "
36. Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," 27.
37. "Titles that cite the journal only once are listed in alphabetical order until the total number of citing titles is at least 25; all other titles that cite the journal only once are collected in the ALL OTHERS category" (Journal Citation Reports, 2005).
38. A "cited journal," in this case, is an ISLS journal that received one or more citations from a journal belonging to a different subject category - the "citing journal." The term "cited year" refers to the year in which the cited journal receives a citation (the citing journal's publication year) - this often differs from the year in which the cited article was published.
39. JCR (Journal Citation Reports) listed Knowledge Acquisition in the ISLS category for only one year (1996) of this study.
40. JCR listed Internet World in the ISLS category for only three years (1997-1998, 2000) of this study. Other titles dropped from JCR's list include: American Archivist (1996), Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian (1996-2000), CD-ROM Professional (1996), International Forum on Information and Documentation (1996-1999), Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (1996-1997, 1999), International Information & Library Review (1996), Library Hi Tech (1996-1998), Special Libraries (1996-1998),
41. and Wilson Library Bulletin (1996-1997). Recently added titles include: Information Research: An International Electronic Journal (2004), Journal of Management Information Systems (2001-2004), portal: Libraries and the Academy (2004), and Research Evaluation (2002-2004).
42. Table 6 provides an index of the JCR title abbreviations used in this paper.
43. Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," 28.
44. Ibid., Table 1, 26.
45. Clement Y.K. So, "Citation Patterns of Core Communication Journals," 248; Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," 28.
46. See data reported in Figure 1 and Table 1: 29,622 Other Field Cites/109,775 Total Cites; 27%.
47. Meyer and Spencer, "A Citation Analysis Study of Library Science," 26.