Characteristics of LIS research articles affecting their citation impact

IF 1.4 4区管理学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of Librarianship and Information Science Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI:10.1177/09610006231196344

Kalervo Järvelin, Yu-Wei Chang, Pertti Vakkari

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The paper analyzes the citation impact of Library and Information Science (LIS) research articles published in 31 leading international LIS journals in 2015. The main research question is: to what degree do authors’ disciplinary composition in association with topic, methodology, and type of contribution affect their citation impact? The impact is analyzed in terms of the number of citations received and their authority, using outlier normalization and subfield normalization. Quantitative content analysis is used to analyze article characteristics including topic, methodology, type of contribution, and the disciplinary composition of their author teams. The citations received by the articles are traced from 2015 to May 2021. Citing document authority is measured by the citations they had received up to May 2021. The overall finding was that authors’ disciplinary composition is significantly associated with citation scores. The differences in citation scores between disciplinary compositions appeared typically within information retrieval and scientific communication. In both topics LIS and computer science jointly received significantly higher citation scores than many disciplines like LIS alone or humanities in information retrieval; or natural sciences, medicine, or social sciences alone in scientific communication. The paper is original in reporting a joint analysis of content characteristics, authorship composition, and impact.

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影响被引影响的LIS研究论文特征

本文分析了2015年31种国际图书馆情报学(Library and Information Science, LIS)期刊上发表的文献引文影响。主要的研究问题是:作者的学科构成与主题、方法和贡献类型的关联在多大程度上影响其被引影响?使用离群归一化和子场归一化，根据收到的引文数量及其权威分析了影响。定量内容分析是用来分析文章的特点，包括主题、方法、贡献类型和作者团队的学科组成。文章被引用的时间追溯至2015年至2021年5月。引用文件权威是根据他们在2021年5月之前收到的引用来衡量的。总体发现是，作者的学科构成与引用分数显著相关。学科论文被引分数的差异主要出现在信息检索和科学传播领域。在信息检索方面，LIS和计算机科学联合获得的引文分数明显高于许多学科，如单独的LIS或人文学科;或自然科学，医学，或社会科学在科学传播中。该论文在报道内容特征，作者组成和影响的联合分析方面是原创的。

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Journal of Librarianship and Information Science INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Librarianship and Information Science is the peer-reviewed international quarterly journal for librarians, information scientists, specialists, managers and educators interested in keeping up to date with the most recent issues and developments in the field. The Journal provides a forumfor the publication of research and practical developments as well as for discussion papers and viewpoints on topical concerns in a profession facing many challenges.